Run Until It Rains

I'm going to run until it rains
You can dance until it gets dark

I'll be here for you now
One day you'll grow old
One day you can grow old with me

We used to play hide and seek in the dark
but now we swim until there's lightning

I'm going to run until it rains
You can dance until it gets dark

As we grow old I want to get younger everyday
I'm here for now
You can grow old with me

Growing taller everyday
Sometimes I like it
Sometimes I don't

Be careful of the trees
It is about to rain

I'm going to run until it rains out
You can dance until it gets dark

I'll be at the park
But I'm going to be honest
it's getting dark
winter is far away
but the darkness controls the mind

I watch people racing to red lights
just to get ahead

Sometimes I feel like there's a stranger in my head
Sometimes I feel like I'm stranger than all my friends

One day I'm gonna wake up

I'm not going to be able to run until it rains
so I race to red lights
chasing around these red and blue balloons

This rift
between my expectations and my reality
the long division leads me to believe
that leaks and losses and too much lobbying

confusion
osmosis diffusion

I just want to run until rains
Watch the water go down the drains
keep running through the aches and pains

Dance until it get dark out

watch the sun rise
and the stars collide
but still get a full night sleep
insomnia's dilemma

watch the water and the moon
live life on life's terms
life's dilemmas
life's grooves,
life's nooks,
life's crannies

Sometimes I like it
Sometimes I don't

But somedays I like to run until it's rained out
Dance until the sun comes up
Gaze beyond the first three stars

Grow old but get younger everyday

Face my fears
My fears I face

Close my eyes so I can walk in the dark
Obliviously living Oblivious in an Oblivion

Blur of life
Bluff of the past
Fluff of the Future
How quick
How fast did the day go
Where did the meter go

Playing outside
Playing in a play that I was never after
All I wanted was the love, family, friends and laughter

One day I thought I could never amount to anything
I was stuck inside the past
a past me
a past her
an idea

The idea of you is clearly fading away in figments
Leaks, Unasked questions

Confusion, Contusion, Twisting and Contorting my thoughts
Isolines in the sand, isolines in my mind
isolating all these isolating incidents that happen in a spectrum
and specieating species of new ideas and concepts
specializing in speculating on speculative and sporadically changing suspicions of superiority
but inferiority drives us

we want to be rebels
so we race until it rains
dance until its dark
fight in the forest
figure shit out after its done
set it up
knock it down

cleaning up garbage
cause you don't want to leave a mess
When I start to stress, I digress
but never regress
Cause the grass is too green
and I can look up high in the sky

and see the red and blue balloons
Floating
I wonder if the lightning will strike
I see all these people running in the rain
Barefoot

Banging around in the thunder
I wonder

I wonder
I'm just gonna run until it rains
and go inside when it thunders
I just want to escape
I do not care about the blunders

These blinders are blocking me
from the red and blue balloons
splashing down as the rain hits my pillow

But I think of a weeping willow
and I wonder if we can withstand
years of yelling and blatant manipulation

can we withstand it all
can we turn a blind eye on a brother
on a friend, on a cousin, on a lover?
a blind eye to those that do us wrong

can we make ourselves believe that what they are doing is right
but I just want to go left

and two wrongs don't make a right
but three lefts do

Sometimes i wake up and I don't want to put on a shoe
I don't want to lift a finger
I feel like I'll just hinder
so I linger

bur I just go left foot, right foot
set my feet, get up
and go

I'm living in Heaven
but so many people think this is hell
and I think you're an angel
leading me

through hell

It's the dark side that we all can abide by
It's the light that scares us the most
our eyes can't adjust
so we we wear sunglasses to protect us from the waves
we were sun tan lotion to protect us from the waves
we stand still
we stand strong
to protect us from the waves

But look at me I'm just following these red and blue balloons in the sky
I'm gonna go to the beach, I'm gonna go to the park
and I'm going to run until it rains.
So I can dance until it gets dark out
Keep on running until the sun comes up

Some of My Favorite Maya Angelou Quotes

"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude."

“No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.”

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

"While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation."

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."

"You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I forgive. I'm finished with it.'"

"Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean."

"It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength."

"You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive."

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”

“I've learned that making a ‘living’ is not the same thing as ‘making a life'.”

“Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.”

“I've learned that I still have a lot to learn.”

"Nothing can dim the light which shines from within."

"While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated."

"My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return."

“I don't know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to forgive myself. It is very important for every human being to forgive herself or himself because if you live, you will make mistakes- it is inevitable. But once you do and you see the mistake, then you forgive yourself and say, 'well, if I'd known better I'd have done better,' that's all. So you say to people who you think you may have injured, 'I'm sorry,' and then you say to yourself, 'I'm sorry.' If we all hold on to the mistake, we can't see our own glory in the mirror because we have the mistake between our faces and the mirror; we can't see what we're capable of being. You can ask forgiveness of others, but in the end the real forgiveness is in one's own self. I think that young men and women are so caught by the way they see themselves. Now mind you. When a larger society sees them as unattractive, as threats, as too black or too white or too poor or too fat or too thin or too sexual or too asexual, that's rough. But you can overcome that. The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. If we don't have that we never grow, we never learn, and sure as hell we should never teach.”

Paperback Writer - Beatles