[Verse 1 - Jonwayne] Just as soon as the sun touch the meadow I was born Handcuffed to strings of Geppetto I was more I swore that I would make it out alive Until the point That I had blood pumping into my eyes I'm just a cardiac ghost that wants his body back Riding whips like I'm running beside the Pontiac Spitting Busta and Dirty Bastard since second grade Standing up to the bullies for change Like lemonade The East Coast held it down for me lyrically The West Coast spiritually Feeling the rhythm kept me together Because my friends are hard to find With so many enemies My memories were flaking around me Like winter leaves Got through the struggle with those cataclysmic verses Now I'm possessing the words to put my enemies in hearses Now they doubletake And look away And run away And I don't blame 'em Before I have another thing to say... Runaway
[Verse 2 - Scoop DeVille] I remember pulling up in the limousine To elementary Schoolin' All the students, the faculty, the principal Mad at me As he should be Like \"how you get the diamonds And the jewelry? That explains how you mackin' all the cuties\" Hickies, on her booby Left hand on her booty Always on duty My real life is like a movie In and out of meetings in 15 With these beats in rhymes Dropped out of school at the same damn time Making moves like a grown man wish he could While you let your time fly by I was living good Braided up Hundred stacks Papercuts Baby girl ass so fat She 'bout to give it up It never fails Heads or tails When I'm sitting on chrome She gon' blow Oh well Outside the hotel Check out by 12 Mr. DeVille Peace out We ill! [Verse 3 - Jonwayne]
I was the never the type to bet on my life Until I learned that I could dice if I was sharp as a knife Used to daydream about being a cat And chasing the mice With my claws out, jaws out Had to get the gauze I was only 7 Dreaming about cutting the bully's balls out Searching for a female companion So I could ball out Handsome little bastard With tantrums decides to call out It's no wonder that my body and psyche Had had a fallout