Keep You From Runnin'

[Hook: Marceline] I keep looking for you but you're just too far away I can't keep you And I'm holding on but I know that you can't stay I can't keep you from runnin, runnin' I can't keep you from runnin, runnin' I can't keep you from runnin' [Verse 1: Nalyd Ecitsuj] Bullied most my life, but I survived it all Beat up and pushed around ate cold pizza in a stall But I always survived the fall And stood up again, never been the one to pretend to bend to another’s demand Regardless of where he lay his hand I always plotted my next stand But what can one boy do against a band Tight knit group of thugs No love, dedicated to the cause of my pain And somehow the kid they beat up was always the one to blame The social outcast but everybody knew his name Too dumb to be a geek, To sad to even sleep They would beat me with words to the point it's beyond belief I was the sheep and them the wolves Tell me this,Tell me that, IT was so uncool It got worse tuned teen started saying fuck the earth Those where the days my skepticism was birthed Rebelling against hurt Fighting fire with fire, I'm in shambles but you'll never know it I guess I'm a good liar [Verse 2: Nalyd Ecitsuj] Instead I gritted my teeth through the pain As those bullies played there sick and twisted game I survived Me, the one kid in the crowd Maybe I just have the willpower now and a working mind to find my grind And deal with the hell that was in front of me As other bullies chimed in and gave me more punishm-e-n-t Lined up and denied me pleasantry Never to spare me kindness Neer kind they destroyed my faith in other people, made me blind to anyhelping hands But don’t kid yourself, there where no helping hands Just more fists with a message that I didn’t deserve Crying myself to sleep every night Thinking why did they have the right And the most fucked up thing of all,They didn’t I just didn’t fight back I was the easiest to sack Smack his back,Beat his ass So hard my eyes would turn black Depressed at seven, Suicidal at eleven Just a lonely kid, merely a stain on the life of everyone else Just another face in the crowd Looking at the shitty hand of cards he was dealt Carried off the playground into the street Smashed Dylans face to the concrete Until my only option was to concede to defeat Wait til' the next day for the cycle to repeat And even now my mind tries to delete the memories damn But now I realize it completes who I am I am the man that survived I am the master of me, and my past is what shaped me I am the strength that I always sought for in somebody else I am drawing new cards to the orignal hand dealt I felt unconquerable uncontrollable Gulible to my shelted loner bubble My destiny is my own and my past is but a memory serving to remind me That no matter how hard things are I will always overcome Go ahead deny me I’ve become the person I’ve always wanted me to be (Say Hello to my little friend) Nalyd E [Hook]