[Intro]
Heart in my throat
Cold air, sharp lungs
Feet hit that road
Shadow on the run (yeah)
[Verse 1]
Laces tight
Mind loose
I don't fight
I just move
Every step got a threat in it
Every breath got a hex in it
Street black, can't track where the edge at
One crack, fall fast, never get back
I feel heat on my neck like a close call
Like a cold hand digging in my skull, y'all
I don't know what it is but it want me
Heard my name in the wind when it caught me
Every thought like a flare in a coal mine
Every sign say "stop", I got no time
[Chorus]
I'm runnin' in the pitch black
Can't see where I'm goin' (can't see)
Something on my six, yeah
I feel that pressure growin' (woah)
Creepin' up slowly, watchin' me
Breath on my shoulder, talkin' cheap
I'm runnin' in the pitch black
Pray these legs don't freeze (don't freeze)
[Verse 2]
Eyes wide, still blind in the deep end
I hear feet in the beat right behind me, breath sync
Little laughs in the gap of the silence
Little scratch on the back of my eyelids
Can't trust what I think, that's a trapdoor
Every turn that I take, there's a last door
I was raised where you never show panic
But my pulse tap dance like static
Whole past like a pack in the hallway
Old sins tryna drag me the long way
Is it me that I'm tryna outrun now?
Every fear got a face in the dark, wow
If I stop, do I drop to the old me?
Or lock eyes with the thing that controls me?
[Chorus]
I'm runnin' in the pitch black
Can't see where I'm goin' (can't see)
Something on my six, yeah
I feel that pressure growin' (pressure)
Creepin' up slowly, watchin' me
Breath on my shoulder, talkin' cheap
I'm runnin' in the pitch black
Pray these legs don't freeze (oh no)
[Bridge]
[Choir low, chanting under lead]
Step after step
I don't look back (don't look back)
Name in my ear
Like a cold hand tap
Maybe that ghost
Always been me
Shadow I fed
Now it chases me (yeah)
[Chorus]
I'm runnin' in the pitch black
Can't see where I'm goin'
Something on my six, yeah
I feel that pressure growin'
Creepin' up slowly, watchin' me
Breath on my shoulder, talkin' cheap
I'm runnin' in the pitch black
'Cause stoppin' might set it free (set it free)