Distance Runner -

Keep your distance when you look in my eye

Just tell me what you need and make it worth both of our time

While looking for another job they ignore you exist

'Til other people wanna see you being fired or quit

I can flip it, even if you haven’t heard of cassettes;

For being rude and obnoxious, I’m as cool as it gets

You bet that quietly, they’ve been riding my coattails

The only thing they rip is bed sheets with their toenails

To call yourself an emcee is just not what it was

And you’re welcome!

Just make sure the volume is up

'Cause we have helped pave the way for today

They can rock anyplace, anyplace, I mean anyplace, we’re not Without getting

less by somebody we run over;

Seeing the tire marks left over on both shoulders

Promoters wanna know the time I need for going on;

I’m saying to the break of dawn, now go run along!

You know exactly what this is about

I can stick your entire foot right inside of their mouth!

No doubt

I’m bleeding out, gill up your cup with another round

As if it was a free drink that was on the house

Been looking like a lost soul with no hope and yet

To step to me is as dumb as a blonde joke

And I really think you shouldn’t speak too soon

Because to me you’re looking sketchy as a free tattoo

Looking at me as if I’m Willy Wonka to the funny farm

I’m keeping their heads ringing like a telethon

Oh!

You’re the type to play it loud, cruising through your town;

Looking for the ladies dressed like you we’re going out

Some hot child in the city who’s been having fun

Wake up and smell the hot piss in the summer sun

Things have got me treating woman like sci-fi;

Girls with three titties, that’s the standard I live by, while

Voices change on some 'where have you been?'

And I don’t know them to be that kind of terrible friend

Start again, used to think that I was bombing tracks

Drinking with some old folks at the laundry mat, like that!

Before I’d ever seen the worst that I had ever seen

Now I’m turning those nightmares into wet dreams

As I continue forward marching to another swamp

That’s full of leeches, you gonna let me go or not?

You know who you are, I’m talking to ya’ll!

Quietly

Watching me closer than ever before.

Is he raw?

I’m calling me out, how clean I sound

Even me, I can’t believe from all the dirt I found and I’m proud!

Get reminded of why I can rhyme with a style of my own

And my own is inviting me home

Straight off the top of my dome

I’m excited to find how it is when I go

I’ve become my best friend and worst enemy when I’m alone

So much time spent together we’ve been cracking jokes

Both saying, use the thing between my shoulder blades

And how you wouldn’t know the time if you were Morris Day

I think I’m more like Charlie Chase, the way I cold crush

Feel it like a headbutt and hear your nose crunch

Crystal clear that I’m mud, who I am, what I’ve done’s

Like a castle I built out of sand in a flood

No stranger to sleeping on the floor

Renting out a room in a place that isn’t yours

Easily forgotten, I’m the story being told

Who decides if I wanna speak about it anymore?

Sure

It’s not that I been running out of things to say

I’d just rather save my breath than let it go to waste

No need to tell, that you need more school

It isn’t hard for me to find another new classroom;

I’ve been showing you it’s true my work ethic is a process

Imitating anything, I’m imitating awesome!

That I belong to the pile of the records in your home

With the ones you love showing to your friends

Yet, very few, I’ve ever known have had collections

Of any kind of record' in their home to even start again

Another day, thrown under a bus, staying!

Over their head, enough is enough, I’m saying!

You still aren’t happy in a world gone mad;

That’s letting you get away with all the things you have

Wanna ask, how I sleep at night knowing I’m me

Without belief when I told you, I don’t ever sleep, man!

Just perform your couple songs with a light applause;

Hold a chainsaw dressed like you’re Santa Claus

Damn!

You still aren’t sure what you’re being punished for

Lowering the whole bar like a underscore

Only the hollow think I’m full of disguise

Who keep telling me that I’m the one who’s full of them lies, 'cause my

Bucket list is a crowd who stays shouting!

That knows every word to my song and keeps bouncing

While I celebrate it both from the joy to the pain;

That’s been keeping us close from far away

Keeping us close from far away!