Runaway$

Thinking about the Middle Passage, head to work stuck in traffic Traffic Black bodies, I can see the huddled masses Roanoke to Calabasas, Massachusetts to Manhattan Daddy went to college, became a teacher and a pastor I look back, 'cause then what happens when a generation shatters Another glass ceiling without tearing down the rafters We were taught to play the game without weighing all the factors Still a slave to a dollar, which reminds me I was captured I just wanna run away I just wanna run away I just wanna run away I just wanna run away Nowadays, I gotta new master, Perkins Loan the FAFSA Tuition, room and board, I can never pay it back, bruh Money's like molasses Yeah, it's sweet when you get it, but you wish it comes faster Baby, that's slow drip, never hopeless Then I noticed, time is a luxury I don't get Punching clocks in the noses til their broken Gotta play this in the parking lot before I go in I just wanna run away I just wanna run away I just wanna run away I just wanna run away Am I a capitalist who raps on a disc And happens to miss the fact that I'm asked to forget The heritage that I arrived from Africa with Miseducated, segregated A fraction, a fifth Then I let it sink like a crack on a ship Turned a book into a raft, so I paddle with this What's the matter, you sick nigga? That's what it is If money flows like rivers, then we drown to exist I just wanna run away I just wanna run away I just wanna run away I just wanna run away