I put my heart on the back burner
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Didn't wanna face my own misery
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Smiled as hard as I could
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That felt so much better to me
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But sometimes I couldn't sleep at night
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And food and shoes couldn't curve my appetite
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I couldn't think and I couldn't pray
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That's what really done it do me, I was running
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[Chorus]
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Running away, I was running [x3]
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I, I, I tried to hide inside a beautiful place
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I held on to my joy, but it felt so second place
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More than anything I felt afraid
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Afraid to feel the pain that I myself had made
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Didn't like what I had done
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But I realized I was on a run
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[Chorus]
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Running away, I was just running [x3]
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I was just running
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From shadow side of the pool
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It wasn't me, just a caricature
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Sometimes the pain came and I ran away
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Didn't wanna see
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That life can be hard and ugly sometimes
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That's just the way it is
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But I realized I couldn't keep running
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From this no, no, that's the way life goes
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Everything I'm supposed to feel,
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Sometimes I'm supposed to cry
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Sometimes I'm supposed to be confused
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Sometimes we have to ask the question
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Why? why?
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That's the way it's supposed to be
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Nothing in life is easy
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Can't keep running, running, running, running
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Can't keep running, running, running, running
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I can't keep running
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I put my heart on the back burner
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Didn't wanna face my own misery
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Smiled as hard as I could
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That felt so much better to me
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But sometimes I couldn't sleep at night
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And food and shoes couldn't curve my appetite
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I couldn't think and I couldn't pray
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And that's what really done it do me,
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I was running
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I was running, running, running
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I was running, running
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I was running, running, running...
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Running Away
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Jill Scott |