Runaway-Hip Hop Hitmakers

[ti:Runaway] [ar:Hip Hop Hitmakers] [al:100 Modern Hip Hop Hits!] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Runaway - Hip Hop Hitmakers [00:10.88]A lifetime of dreaming visualising paradise [00:13.29]I woke and rolled over [00:14.33]And told my girl we're leaving [00:15.81]It's time to sacrifice a lot [00:17.45]Cause you ain't happy with your job [00:18.77]And round here it's like nothin' seems appealing [00:21.10]So let me know you feel the same [00:22.75]Throw your life into a case [00:23.77]And walk the path from victoria this evening [00:26.07]And then embark upon a path of rediscovery [00:28.51]Searching for the fruits [00:29.46]From the lost garden of eden [00:31.05]I'm wondering if I runaway [00:32.35]And came back another day [00:33.76]Then would the young men [00:34.67]Who roll with metal put the guns away [00:36.38]And would the devil have took charge [00:37.83]Or would the slum be safe [00:38.89]I pray the latter's right [00:40.02]For everybody's mumsy's sake [00:41.49]And if I dissappear for years and reappear [00:43.97]Would my natural intuition still be crystal clear [00:46.67]Or would I have lost clarity [00:48.49]In this trivial pursuit [00:50.01]We're walking through so casually [00:51.33]I gotta leave I gotta go [00:53.34]There's nothing here for me no more [00:55.31] [00:55.90]I gotta be free I gotta be [00:58.33]Somewhere that I can just be me [01:00.78]And I run run runaway run run runaway [01:06.88]Run run runaway I runaway [01:12.40]We share a last cigerette [01:13.43]Then walk into the station [01:14.56]Purchase two tickets to an alien destination [01:16.66] [01:17.28]Board the train and witness pain on [01:18.75]All the faces of multi-cultural races [01:20.56]But not me and my girl we're breaking free [01:22.38]Like an escapist cause we need to escape this [01:24.49] [01:25.03]And I for one have got my mind made up [01:26.92]Even if where we stay is make-shift [01:28.49]I can't remain in this domain of semi ape sh*t [01:31.09]Because all I see is hatred [01:32.23]I wonder if I dissappeared [01:33.62]How many men would miss me [01:34.99]Or would they all forget [01:35.90]Like I erased my name from history [01:37.59]I'm still trying yet to make a break [01:39.16]Within the chain of pain and misery [01:40.65]And vanish off the planet like a mystery [01:42.75]And if I did return [01:43.82]Would things be the same or worse [01:45.23]You see the gear stick shift [01:46.89]And then the whip reverse [01:48.10]And I'd be straight back on my travels [01:49.95]Burning rubber over gravel [01:51.16]'Til we see the english channel [01:52.63]I gotta leave I gotta go [01:54.50]There's nothing here for me no more [01:56.87]I gotta be free I gotta be [01:59.55]Somewhere that I can just be me [02:02.11]And I run run runaway run run runaway [02:08.01]Run run runaway I runaway [02:13.68] [02:14.51]As the carriage pulls away [02:15.72]I pull my lady closer and I tell her she's okay [02:18.29]'Cause if we never broke the barricades [02:19.71]Today we'd always be afraid [02:21.24]And left to feel threatened [02:22.53]In this dark and deadly maze [02:24.08]But now I've come of age [02:25.31]And as the train starts enterin' suburbia a smile [02:27.58]Comes across my face [02:28.82]The unwinding of eternal rage [02:30.55]That was locked up inside [02:32.06]Just like my mates behind prison gates [02:33.83]If I could runaway and come back another day [02:36.42]I'd let the song play on the summer's longest day [02:39.11]Kick back and just enjoy the raves [02:40.97]With a lager and a spliff to blaze [02:42.60] [02:44.08]If I ever contemplate returning to this crazy place [02:46.71]I'd leave it long enough [02:47.76]So they don't recognise my face [02:49.28]I'd let the song play on the summer's longest day [02:51.77]While I roll upon the roads along the motorway [02:53.92]I gotta leave I gotta go [02:55.79]There's nothing here for me no more [02:58.09]I gotta be free I gotta be [03:00.78]Somewhere that I can just be me [03:03.38]And I run run runaway run run runaway [03:09.35]Run run runaway I runaway