No Matter How Far You Go ft. El Dia & Julie-C Lyrics

No matter how far you go

What you tryna run from will find you

I know

No matter how far you go

What you tryna run from will find you

I was born at the bottom

My poppa bailed on my momma

She forgave him cuz his trauma

I was raised by the heart of a woman

Who brought a village out the depths of a war

It was a different world when I just stepped up out a my door

Two identities that were hyphenated by a porch

Our house was a portal to Addis, you know the source

Most my childhood was just north of Jefferson course

And I spent most of my days up at the basketball court

You know, the one by Beacon El when it was 18s and VL

Of course, it was violence of all sorts, we were poor

To be sure, as we grow the body keeps the score

And it shows, so much more as we get old

I was forced to be grown-up when I was too young to simply manage it

Nothing scandalous, but damn the shit left it's mark

Late 30's, learning what my childhood did

No matter where I go, I can't run from it

No matter how far you go

What you tryna run from will find you

I know

No matter how far you go

What you tryna run from will find you

No matter how far you go

What you tryna run from will find you

I know

No matter how far you go

What you tryna run from will find you

I wake up some nights screaming in bed

Cuz I'll feel I'm not alone, and then it's all in my head

I don't know if it's a ghost, or a shadow of my ex

I'm not used to these issues that you can't put to rest

And I honestly think it's just all the unsaid

But when it's unsafe to talk, this is what you got left

We gotta acknowledge

And move on cuz the best days are ahead of us

I know that I'm different than I was before all of this

That's just a part of it

We don't heal to go back

We heal cause we're new

And there's so much beautiful work for us to do

I been taking my time, to build a circle of trust

Cuz that's what got damaged up in the fabric of love

Facing it all

I can't do it alone

I'm thankful for everyone that has graced my home

Cuz y'all gave me the strength to face the world head on

When

No matter how far I go

What I'm tryna run from will find me

I know

No matter how far I go

What I'm tryna run from will find me

No matter how far you go

What you tryna run from will find you

I know

No matter how far you go

What you tryna run from will find you

Living outside the rules, beyond form

Beyond limits, beyond norms

The life was tight, but I outgrew it

Step first time to the mic, you just do it

My new homeland says Nike, not Nike

It's not likely you'll be just like me

Idris, Slick Rick, they chill with Spike Lee

Check me, British, but Pinay despite me

Missing Alki to the by and by

But you cannot fly no matter how hard you try

Bi-race, bi-sex, bi-continental

My face perplexed cuz my soul is gentle

That bass swing low, come to take me home

Heartbeat of the SEA anywhere I roam

Heat and the speed

Meet in the need

Food that I feed

Blood that I bleed