Running From Your Pain

Yeah

You keep

Running, running

You keep running from your pain like it’s chasing with a blade

Every mirror in your room got the story that you hate

So you cover it in clothes, in a bottle, in a smoke

Every laugh too loud, every smile just a cloak

You don’t talk about the nights when your heart went flatline

Looking at the pill pack, tracing every white line

Say you “fine, I’m fine”, but the tremble in your hand

Got the truth in your veins that you never understand

You keep running from your pain, but it run too

Every corner that you turn, it in front you

Say you done, but it cling like a tattoo

You can numb it for a sec, it gon’ snap through

Running from your pain, but it love you

Sit right next to your shadow when the sun move

You can drown, you can hide, it gon’ flood through

Running from your pain, but it run too

You remember being twelve, hearing fights through the wall

Mama screaming in the dark, glass broke in the hall

Now you swear you never cry, you just grind, you just work

You just bleed into the bag, turn the bruise into worth

But that anger in your chest got you pushing who you love

You afraid they gon’ leave, so you leave, that’s the drug

You be scrolling through your past like a feed you can’t clear

All the “what if” ghosts that be breathing in your ear

What if you stop for a minute?

Let the hurt talk, let it finish

What if healing ain’t weak, ain’t an image?

What if truth in your throat, not a prison?

Say it out loud, say the names, say the year

Let the tears hit the floor, let ‘em smear