Gil Scott-Heron - Running
Because I always feel like running.
Not away, because there’s no such place.
Because if there was, I would have found it by now.
Because it’s easier to run,
Easier than staying and finding out you’re the only one, who didn’t run.
Because running will be the way your life and mine will be described,
As in, ‘the long run’ or
As in, ‘having given someone a run for their money’ or
As in, ‘running out of time’.
Because running makes me look like everyone else, though I hope there will never be cause for that.
Because I will be running in the other direction,
Not running for cover.
Because if I knew where cover was,
I would stay there and never have to run for it.
Not running for my life
Because I have to be running for something of more value to be running, and not in fear.
Because the thing I fear cannot be escaped, eluded, avoided, hidden from, protected from, gotten away from,
Not without showing the fear, as I see it now,
Because closer, clearer, no-sir, nearer
Because of you, and because of that nice,
That you quietly, quickly be causing
And because you going to see me run soon
And because you going to know why I’m running then,
You’ll know then, because I’m not,
Going to tell you
Now.
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