No Exit - Gil Scott-Heron

Where you tryin' to run to?

Don’t you even know

That you’re still gonna be you

Every place you go

You can change your name and address

That’s what a lot of people say

But the cards that they deal you

Are the ones you gotta play

No you can’t get away

No you can’t get away

No you can’t get away

From you

You can change from bald to cornrows

Or the other way around

You can live up on a mountain

Or in a cave deep underground

You can make so many changes

That you fool the FBI

But you recognize a suspect

As someone you can’t leave behind

No you can’t get away

(No you can’t get away)

No you can’t get away

(No you can’t get away)

No you can’t get away

(No you can’t get away)

From you

Why you got that mask on?

And who you tryin' to fool?

The only one who matters

Is stuck inside with you

As soon as you stop runnin'

And see that everyone’s afraid

But the thing that really scares me

Is that I almost didn’t say

No you can’t run away

(No you can’t run away)

No you can’t run away

(No you can’t run away)

No you can’t run away

(No you can’t run away)

From you

No you can’t run away

(No you can’t run away)

No matter how you try

(No matter how you try)

Remember what the brother say

(Remember what the brother say)

You can run, you can run, but you just can’t hide

No you can’t run away

(No you can’t run away)

No can’t run away

(No you can’t run away)

No can’t run away

(No you can’t run away)

From you

No!