Runnin'
Williams is responsible for a number of enduring pop hits from the 1970s, i… Read Full Bio ↴Williams is responsible for a number of enduring pop hits from the 1970s, including a number of hits for Three Dog Night (including An Old Fashioned Love Song, "The Family of Man", and "Out in the Country"), Helen Reddy ("You and Me Against the World"), and The Carpenters, most notably "Rainy Days and Mondays," "I Won't Last a Day Without You," and "We've Only Just Begun", which has since become a cover-band standard and de rigueur for weddings throughout North America. An early collaboration with Roger Nichols, "Someday Man", was covered by The Monkees (a group for which he auditioned but was not cast [3]) on a 1969 single, and was the first Monkees' release not published by Screen Gems.

Runnin'
P. Williams Lyrics


Summertime in Virginia was a oven (oven)
All the kids eating ice cream with their cousins (cousins)
I was studyin' while you was playing the dozens (dozens)
Don't act like you was there when you wasn't

Runnin' from the man (man) runnin' from the badge (badge)
Don't act like you was there when you wasn't
Runnin' toward our plans (plans) and the judges hands (hands)
Don't act like you was there when you wasn't
I know they say you crawl 'fore your walk
But in my mind I already jog
If I stand still I cannot get far
They want the Moon, I'm on Mars

Sometime my mind dives deep
When I'm runnin'
I don't want no free ride
I'm just sick and tired of runnin'
Some nights I cry
Cause I can see the day comin'
Together we'll fly
Oh, but no more runnin'

You and I are not different from each other (other)
Shut our eyes, when we slumber I see numbers (numbers)
Black and white, we're computers, I am colored (colored)
Don't act like you was there when you wasn't

From runnin' to exams (exams) to jobs for a man (man)
Don't act like you was there when you wasn't
In the law of the land (land) the women were often banned (banned)
Don't act like you was there when you wasn't

I know they say you crawl 'fore your walk
But in my mind I already jog
If I stand still I cannot get far
They want the Moon, I'm on Mars

Sometime my mind dives deep
When I'm runnin'
I don't want no free ride
I'm just sick and tired of runnin'
Some nights I cry
Cause I can see the day comin'
Together we fly
Oh, but no more runnin'

I know they say you crawl 'fore your walk
But in my mind I already jog
If I stand still I cannot get far
They want the Moon, I'm on Mars

Sometime my mind dives deep
When I'm runnin'
I don't want no free ride
I'm just sick and tired of runnin'
Some nights I cry
Cause I can see the day comin'
Together we fly
Oh, but no more runnin'


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Written by: PHARRELL WILLIAMS

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Runnin' - Lyrics


Summertime in Virginia was a oven
All the kids eating ice cream with their cousins
I was studyin' while you was playing the dozens, dozens
Don't act like you was there when you wasn't


Runnin' from the man, man runnin' from the badge, badge
Don't act like you was there when you wasn't
Runnin' toward our plans, plans and the judges hands, hands
Don't act like you was there when you wasn't


I know they say you crawl 'fore you walk
But in my mind I already jog
If I stand still I cannot get far
They want the Moon, I'm on Mars


Sometime my mind dives deep
When I'm runnin'
I don't want no free ride
I'm just sick and tired of runnin'
Some nights I cry
'Cause I can see the day comin'
Together we fight
Oh, but no more runnin'


You and I are not different from each other
Shut our eyes, when we slumber I see numbers
Black and white, we're computers, I am colored
Don't act like you was there when you wasn't


From runnin' to exams, exams to jobs for a man, man
Don't act like you was there when you wasn't
In the law of the land, land the women were often banned, banned
Don't act like you was there when you wasn't


I know they say you crawl 'fore you walk
But in my mind I already jog
If I stand still I cannot get far
They want the Moon, I'm on Mars


Sometime my mind dives deep
When I'm runnin'
I don't want no free ride
I'm just sick and tired of runnin'
Some nights I cry
'Cause I can see the day comin'
Together we fight
Oh, but no more runnin'


I know they say you crawl 'fore you walk
But in my mind I already jog
If I stand still I cannot get far
They want the Moon, I'm on Mars


Sometime my mind dives deep
When I'm runnin'
I don't want no free ride
I'm just sick and tired of runnin'
Some nights I cry
'Cause I can see the day comin'
Together we fight
Oh, but no more runnin'



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ssendijja derrick

Pharrell has never disappointed me.

Bissola

The same for me ^^

Mia Carter

Me either. Always on point. I'm only disappointed that he has unfinished, unreleased songs.

Adam.

ssendijja derrick never disappoints me either

AwesomeAC

ssendijja derrick never disappointed

yewon

preach

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Kolegate

What I've always liked about Pharrell is how diverse he is with music. One minute he's producing, next minute he's doing synth-rock with his band N.E.R.D, then the next he's rapping with Future or T.I. and next thing you know he's singing songs like 'Happy'.

When he's eventually done making music (if that ever happens, lol), he 110% deserves to go into the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame and Songwriters Hall of Fame.

AnuJ Soni

our generation quincy jones

Noah Johnson

Yes!!!!!

AnuJ Soni

hey noah here u from ?

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