Runaway Love

Album: Release Therapy (2006)
Charted: 2 21
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  • Yeah, and it go a lil something like this

    Runaway love
    Runaway love (love, love)
    Runaway love (love))
    Runaway love (ooh)
    Runaway love (ooh)
    Runaway love (ooh)
    Runaway love (ooh)
    Runaway love (runaway love)

    Now little Lisa is only nine years old
    She's tryin' to figure out why the world is so cold
    Why she's all alone and they never met her family
    Mama's always gone and she never met her daddy
    Part of her is missin' and nobody will listen
    Mama on drugs, gettin' high up in the kitchen
    Bringin' home men at different hours of the night
    Startin' with some laughs, usually endin' in a fight
    Sneak in her room while her mama's knocked out
    Tryin' to have his way and little Lisa says 'ouch'
    She tries to resist, but then all he does is beat her
    Tries to tell her mom, but her mama don't believe her
    Lisa's stuck up in the world on her own
    Forced to think that hell is a place called home
    Nothin' else to do but get some clothes and pack
    She says, she's 'bout to run away and never come back

    Runaway love (runaway, runaway)
    Runaway love (runaway love)
    Runaway love (love)
    Runaway love (runaway love)
    Runaway love
    Runaway love (runaway, runaway, runaway)
    Runaway love (love)
    Runaway love (runaway love)

    Little Nicole is only ten years old
    She's steady tryin' to figure why the world is so cold
    Why she's not pretty and nobody seems to like her
    Alcoholic step dad always wanna strike her
    Yells and abuses, leaves her with some bruises
    Teachers ask questions, she makin' up excuses
    Bleedin' on the inside, cryin' on the out
    It's only one girl really knows what she about
    Her name is lil' Stacy and they become friends
    Promise that they'll always be tight 'til the end
    Until one day lil' Stacy gets shot
    A drive-by bullet went stray up on her block
    Now Nicole stuck up in the world on her own
    Forced to think that hell is a place called home
    Nothin' else to do but get her clothes and pack
    She says, she's 'bout to run away and never come back

    Runaway love (runaway)
    Runaway love (runaway love)
    Runaway love (runaway, don't keep her away)
    Runaway love (oh)
    Runaway love
    Runaway love (runaway love)
    Runaway love
    Runaway love (runaway love)

    Little Erica is eleven years old
    She's steady tryin' to figure why the world is so cold
    So she pops Ex to get rid of all the pain
    Plus she's havin' sex with a boy who's sixteen
    Emotions run deep and she thinks she's in love
    So there's no protection, he's usin' no glove
    Never thinkin' 'bout the consequences of her actions
    Livin' for today and not tomorrow's satisfaction
    The days go by and her belly gets big
    The father bails out, he ain't ready for a kid
    Knowin' her mama will blow it all outta proportion
    Plus she lives poor, so no money for abortion
    Erica is stuck up in the world on her own
    Forced to think that hell is a place called home
    Nothin' else to do but get her clothes and pack
    She say, she's about to run away and never come back

    Runaway love (runaway)
    Runaway love (runaway love)
    Runaway love (don't keep running, girl)
    Runaway love
    Runaway love (runaway, runaway)
    Runaway love (runaway, runaway)
    Runaway love (running, running, running, running)
    Runaway love
    Runaway love (don't keep on running away)
    Runaway love (don't you keep running, running away)
    Runaway love (I know how you feel, I've been there)
    Runaway love (I was running away too)
    Runaway love (I would run away with you)
    Runaway love (I will run away with you
    Runaway love (running, running, running, running)
    Runaway love (hey)

    Runaway, runaway love
    Don't keep runnin' away
    I'll runaway with you, if you want me to
    Love

    Yeah, I can only imagine
    What you going through, ladies
    Sometimes I feel like running away myself
    So do me a favor right now
    And close your eyes and picture us running away together
    And when we come back, everything is going to be okay
    Open your eyes Writer/s: Christopher Brian Bridges, Douglas L. Davis, Jamal F. Jones, Keri Lynn Hilson, Ricky M. L. Walters
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., MUSIC SERVICES, INC., Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 9

  • Anonymous from NyI remember hearing this song on the radio as a kid and thinking it was a sign from God. I thought I was worthless after being sexually abused. It inspired me to try and keep myself safe from then on and taught me that what happened to me was never okay, and that even if the adults around couldn’t keep me safe- I was entitled keep me safe. This song hit many nerves and I’ll never forget the impact it had on me. I didn’t get to runaway as a child, I did learn how to keep the monsters at bay until I finally could leave. No child should ever have to feel like this.
  • Lee from FlThere are a 11 and 12 and 13 year olds that get pregnant and alot of times from older guys who sweet talk insecure girls with daddy issues(alot of the times) and make them think they are in love... So stop treating it as it doesnt happen ALL of these things do. These are all real life situations. Just because you never experienced or met someone who has, doesnt mean it isnt real.
  • Diana from Rialto, CaJohn, This song is speaking to some very real situations that are going on out there, I work with victims of trauma everyday and this is very real to a lot of kid out there. The song is not promoting running away but speaking on how many children who live in abusive homes or chaotic environments wish they could run away from the hell that they call home.
  • John from Louisville, Ky, KyThis song is deceitful and wrong. Ludacris conflates the emotional attitudes of his teenage audience with the innocence and helplessness of much younger children. A pregnant 11 year old? Yeah, that's happened a handful of times in recorded history. He is CLEARLY speaking to an older audience and in some backward way giving them license to rationalize their own irresponsible behavior by casting themselves as victims. It's an affront to the suffering of real victims of abuse, thinly veiled pandering to the gullable/misguided.
  • Lisa from York, PaThis song isn't promoting for those abused or neglected to run away, but to say these children feel there is no other way out for them but to runaway and to raise awareness for those in these type of situations and hopefully open the eyes of society to help those in need and not just throw them away.
  • Caity from Las Vegas, Nvthis song is so emotional and i can relate its just so inspiring that this singer would put other things aside to write and sing this song i love it!
  • Nikki from Grand-falls, Cathe first time i heard this song i started crying cuz in a way it relates to me, i never got abused or anything but my dad used to mess with my mind and it made my life a living hell and i always think of running away and this song kind of makes me fell like im not alone...
  • Nikki from Heights, Txi heard this song when i had actually ran away once and it was really emotional and i can relate 2 all of it except the pregnate part
  • Heather from Jacksonville, Flthis song is very emotional and it discribes the life i used to live the only part is my dad was around, i had and abusive stepmother, and i didnt get pregnate.
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