Sa-Roc — The Great Escape

[Verse 1] Brown skin lady, Black Star Enterprise Ran from the past like track stars win the prize But everything catch us, my best times end in ties And I can't seem to get the knots out, I swear I tried It's like every interaction a flashback Memories want my flesh in pounds like a hashtag That's why I got a twisted fate with this rap act I leave a piece of me on every stage I rock, Baghdad Now every rapper whipping up white on they record But that work almost destroyed my life, for the record Up nights 'cause my daddy hit them pipes on the regular Home with stained glass like a House of Christ, where my blessings at? And I know I got a lot to be grateful for People dying, everyone my heart breaking for But this pain an old friend, still can't shake the boy What you try and leave behind, you'll soon be facing towards [Chorus] Catch me if you can I'm the gingerbread man, oh We running, we running, we running, we running, we running, oh They ain't gon' understand It's too rough for us to land, oh Keep running, keep running, keep running, keep running, keep running, oh [Verse 2] Fam running their traps to weave tall tales Complex textiles to cushion the fraud trail They tiptoeing on the edge without a guardrail The bare truth got 'em like refugees, no Praswell Ghetto superstars out euthanizing their souls Stuck between negative forces like nuclei of prose Addicted to bills, so they keep an eye on the Jones Hoping it don't blow up in their face, keep an eye on the drones I know poor too, I know hard knocks I done bore the bruise of entire blocks Trying to beat me blue and black But that's a poor excuse to tell the world what you are not 'Cause what you bury is unearthed when they exhume your plot That's why I dive so deep in it 'Cause me and this relationship is codependent, obsessed I got so many miles between me and my trials I could be flying scot-free, but I'd still be running, what's next? [Chorus] Catch me if you can I'm the gingerbread man, oh We running, we running, we running, we running, we running, oh They ain't gon' understand It's too rough for us to land, oh Keep running, keep running, keep running, keep running, keep running, oh [Verse 3] Hell of a life My wisdom came with a heavenly price Death of my innocence, all the remains have been severed and sliced Evidence wiped clean That's why I'm a little jaded, complexion a type green I know too many men trying to make minutes last Past the final grains of sand descending into the narrow glass Escaping their conscience like prisoner's clasps Instead of owning it, like an ode to Fanon, we go'n and wear the masks This ain't finger-pointing, I'm no angel, I've been guilty of it Now with every sentence, I can wash my sins, I'm filthy of it Running, we've been running, now them moments creeping stealthily on up Who am I to judge? I'm not completely healed myself, your honor A wise woman told me you'll never change your future's odds If you don't stop and let reflection treat your suture scars If I keep racing, my fate will mirror the youth I lost A cautionary tale of how an evolution's paused [Chorus] Catch me if you can I'm the gingerbread man, oh We running, we running, we running, we running, we running, oh They ain't gon' understand It's too rough for us to land, oh Keep running, keep running, keep running, keep running, keep running, oh