Escape (The Race)

They say money can't take all the pain away
You can't maintain your life this way
Pour the Champaign hoping that life will change
Hope that one day you can escape the race

Money can't take all the pain away
You can't maintain your life this way
Pour the Champaign hoping that life will change
Hope that one day you can escape the race

Cruising in the fast lane living a fast life
Going 80 over tryna reach up to new highs
Where I'm going undecided but I gotta try
Cuz where I been know I'm guided looking for the light
But this shit ain't very routine
Yea it's true ima sucker for diamonds & chains
But what it brings? Nothing tangible
Feelings fleeting so casual
Here for a second but that shit ain't even valuable
Still I splurge
Be like Kodak in the burbs
Always looking at you different cuz you did it from a verse
If they see you in a hearse know that they won't even miss you
Too many niggas gone they waiting for they breakthrough
Hear them in they songs but can never again in visual
Doing what you love but ain't nothing ever simple
Hurts when your idols fall and never gave a signal
So I'm hoping that I make it long enough to leave a wrinkle

They say money can't take all the pain away
You can't maintain your life this way
Pour the Champaign hoping that life will change
Hope that one day you can escape the race

Money can't take all the pain away
You can't maintain your life this way
Pour the Champaign hoping that life will change
Hope that one day you can escape the race

Wasn't blessed with a mountain of cash to rest my head on
Everything I done had to do it all head on
Took a few beatings along the way but I'm standing
Put respect on my name that's something I'm demanding
Cuz if you ain't know me then
Why you even gonna pretend?
Shit I'm loyal to the bone so my dogs be like my kin
Known me since a boy now they see me as a man
Can't forget where I done been cuz that's where this shit began
Anybody strike me down ima take it on the chin
Battle of the wills never finished ima win
Now I'm speaking to my kids
That don't know how hard it is
But to follow in your dreams making sacrifices is
Just a part of it
This is just the start of it
Thinking about the future knowing there is no restart on this
I keep on wishing
Like Lupe keep on pushing
Hope y'all cheer me on never fade like my ambition

Money can't take all the pain away
You can't maintain your life this way
Pour the Champaign hoping that life will change
Hope that one day you can escape the race

Money can't take all the pain away
You can't maintain your life this way
Pour the Champaign hoping that life will change
Hope that one day you can escape the race

So as I got older I told less & less people about it
I guess that's why so many people choose to never even follow their dreams in the first place
We live in a world where the people who follow dreams are the outcast
Cuz they don't fit in the box society made for them
And it wasn't until I separated myself & got away from everyone
That I realized I just had to dive in head first