You Can't Run from Yourself - Rose Royce

A-one more time

Hey, yeah

I got a message for you

What’s the sense in runnin'?

You can’t get away

Go back to bed, pull the covers over your head

That will make your problems go away

Tell me, why do you try

To hide in a bottle?

Since when has drinkin' helped your thinkin'?

Think about it

You can’t run from yourself

It’s an impossibility

You can’t run from yourself

Face up to reality

Do you not like who you are?

Did I hear you say you wish you were a star?

Well, stars have problems too

The same as me and you

So climb into your smoke

Ha, ha, that’s a joke

'Cause when that air clears

Your problems will still be there

You can’t run from yourself

It’s an impossibility

You can’t run from yourself

Face up to reality

Come on with it

A-one more time

I wanna go higher

I’m just tellin' you the truth

Don’t get me wrong

I do things too

Now listen

This is your life and time

Why must you be blind?

Stop takin' on losin' prescribed pills

They can’t kill your ills

One pill takes you up

The other pill brings you down

Don’t you think it’s time, my friend

To get off that merry-go-round?

I’m with him

You can’t run from yourself

It’s an impossibility

You can’t run from yourself

Face up to reality

You can’t run from yourself

You can’t run, you can’t hide

You can’t run from yourself

'Cause the problem lives inside