18RUN - Ryan Oakes

There never is an easy way out when your sixteen

You spiral down until you’re finally up shits creek

Waking up every morning to a blitzkrieg

Of all these people trying break all of your esteem

God forbid you’re just a little different

And it sparks their interest you’ll become the biggest new joke

And the’re gonna be so persistent hating so Consistent till your hopes

diminished alone and you’re bruised up bad

(And boost up)

Now your everybody’s punch line, You wonder where you sit

While your standing in the lunch line, Desperate to get

Just a little bit of sun shine, I thought to end it all

About a hundred more than one time, I didn’t fit the mold

So I end up cast out, But when I started to choke

I didn’t ever tap out, They all hated themselves

So they had to act out, Wasn’t an eye for an eye

So I never lashed out

I knew I would laugh now

When you turn eighteen run

At a speed that they won’t catch

I think it’s obvious that I can’t promise you you’re gonna leave without one

scratch

Cause the Adventures just begun and the world is in your grasp

A hundred miles an hour is your super power and I promise you won’t crash

When you turn 18 run

Welcome to my world and to my mind let’s take a flashback

Writing all my raps distracted in the back of math class

Notebooks full of lyrics had them spilling out my backpack

Steve-o's didn’t get it so they acted like a jackass

I just kept on working with no capping like a snap-back

Tried to turn the cards that I was dealt into a blackjack

Never would retaliate on days where I was laughed at

Sometimes you just gotta take a hike like a halfback

Anxiety was eating at me like a fuckin parasite

Felt like my heart was stopping I would sit in classes paralyzed

Panic every hour I would sit in silence terrified

Mapping how the fuck I’m finna make it out this paradigm

Said that when I’m finished I’ll be leaving without looking back

Booked it to the west coast and I left it all inside the past

Didn’t do it by the book and now I’m booked up look at that

I’m winning and I know they’re all shook at that

When you turn eighteen run

At a speed that they won’t catch

I think it’s obvious that I can’t promise you you’re gonna leave without one

scratch

Cause the Adventures just begun and the world is in your grasp

A hundred miles an hour is your super power and I promise you won’t crash

When you turn 18 run

Went from night all alone and panic attacks

To having me a hand I can hold and managing that

Reflecting on the nights I was cold from damages that

Hurt me and the ones who wen’t ghost in a vanishing act

Went from night all alone and panic attacks

To having me a hand I can hold and managing that

Reflecting on the nights I was cold from damages that

Hurt me and the ones who wen’t ghost in a vanishing act

When you turn eighteen run

At a speed that they won’t catch

I think it’s obvious that I can’t promise you you’re gonna leave without one

scratch

Cause the Adventures just begun and the world is in your grasp

A hundred miles an hour is your super power and I promise you won’t crash

When you turn eighteen run

At a speed that they won’t catch

I think it’s obvious that I can’t promise you you’re gonna leave without one

scratch

Cause the Adventures just begun and the world is in your grasp

A hundred miles an hour is your super power and I promise you won’t crash

When you turn eighteen run