Run

[ALEX WYSE]
Okay

Here we go

So…

I started a business
Trusted Freddy with my vision
We were making sneakers
With our guts and our precision

At first, I swear, he’d steer like a shark
Extinguish every blaze to a spark
Until the day that Fred missed the mark
And crumbled

He’d mess up every meeting
With the temper of a tumor
He would put on sneakers
And he’d squash me like a rumor

The thing I once called “guts” turned to rage
To think I ever thought it was a stage
When I was simply stuck in his cage
And I would

Run, run, run
From the stress
Run, run, run
Fix his mess

Run, run, run
Tell him yes
You’re right
You’re right!

Freddy made me get him lodging
And a Honda that was his
Then I had to buy him airfare
Or he said he’d tank the biz’

So every day, I stayed, I paid my dues
You think I would have picked up on the clues
To think that I was suffering for shoes
’Til one day

The business went and shuttered
No more money, no more Fred
Death by sneakers
Spent the summer in my bed

I think about the rubber and regret
The broken dreams, the mountain range of debt
I threw away my shoes to forget
Why must I

Run, run, run?
Bleary eyed
Run, run, run
Lose my pride

Run, run, run
Need to hide
Alright
Alright!

I’d run, run, run
Damn the day!
Run, run, run
You said hey!

Run, run, run
Stay away
You’re right
You’re right!

But I had to try
Yes, I had to see
‘Cause how could I trust
What you’d said to me

And that’s the last of Freddy, he doesn’t get to be in this story anymore!