BROWNSKINNED BOY (RUN AWAY)

I been down & out, running out of luck
I been wildin out, just to feel a buzz
Memories from my past, they keep coming
Imma drown it out, with what's in this cup

I just need some time, I feel it ticking away
I feel like I'm losing mine, and I'm losing my mind
I'm in this big ass world, but it feels empty to me
I'm missing home because it's more than just a city to me

Even on rainy days, when I'm at home I can escape
From all the crazy things that float around in my brain
My brothers kept me sane, being away from daily
Seeing them live on without me is such a crazy thing

I got so much on my mind but I never say a thing
I turn my troubles to lyrics, I put the pen to page
I don't where to go no more
Issa cold cold word for a brownskinned boy

You can live for tomorrow and get lost in today
You can reach for the stars till you fall into space
You can swim in the calm, and get caught in a wave
We could hide till it's gone, we could all run away

I been tryna cope, I been in the gym whenever I have time to go
I been writing songs
I been seeking somebody who's down to help me when I'm steering off course
But ain't no love for the brownskinned boy

He ain't got no waves, oh he ride the bus
They don't entertain me I guess I'm not enough
But it's a lot pain that I got bottled up
Maybe shit would change if I had someone to trust

I always run away
Katrina told me just because I may have made peace with it doesn't mean it's ok
That haunts me to this day
Thinking of all the things I hid and things I meant to say
I pushed people away and now

All I got is me, imma be ok
Don't need no one else, imma make a change
I'm all alone of course
Ain't no love in this world for a brownskinned boy

You can live for tomorrow and get lost in today
You can reach for the stars till you fall into space
You can swim in the calm, and get caught in a wave
We could hide till it's gone, we could all run away

Don't know where I'm from, but I know how I came
I don't know my lineage, where I get this name?
Probably from the ones, that put us in chains
And we still in cuffs, to this very day

They look down on us, like we not the same
I could be yo cousin, but they took us away
I struggle with identity cause it was taken from me
We still enslaved we just making money, listen

Less than a dollar an hour, busting they ass
And them commissary rates inflated it's a trap n
And they wonder why trap ns keep the strap with em
12 make black people feel like we need a pistol

It's like we guilty till we innocent
I turn on the TV to see officer acquitted for the murder he committed
Industrial complexes put my brothers in them prisons
Under the 13th Amendment but

I think we had enough, somethings gotta change
They pull out a gun, take your life away
It's a cold cold world of course
Ain't no justice ain't no peace a brownskinned boy

You can live for tomorrow and get lost in today
You can reach for the stars till you fall into space
You can swim in the calm, and get caught in a wave
We could hide till it's gone, we could all run away