Sin - Gotta Run

Gotta Run

I wrote Gotta Run during a time at the beginning of the pandemic when I was between jobs. I spent a while just writing songs all day and getting a feel for what it would be like to do this full time.

I noticed this tendency in myself and others close to me to always be on the go, as if we were propelled forward by some invisible force to just always be doing, always be productive.

Ever since I heard this song, I wanted to try and make my own track about anxiety. When I heard it, I heard an honest depiction of anxiety without sounding cliché or forced. Its a good song that happens to be about anxiety.

This song also starts and ends with soundbites from the movie Network, in which a news anchor has a mental health episode on air, gets high rankings for the network. So, rather than help him out, they exploit his illness and keep putting him on air. Really great movie, I highly recommend it !

The beat to this song was made by Dennis. I went out to Papertone studio to get this recorded.

It was mixed and mastered at Music in Focus studio.

Hope you enjoy the track!

Talk soon,

- Sin

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Lyrics

Hook:

Gotta Run

No breaks

Gotta go

No breaks

Gotta Run

Gotta run

I feel my

Head thumpin

Heart jumpin

Feet runnin

Without me

Self doubting

I won't make it out if

I don't go

If I don't go

Verse 1:

New day

Mother fucker you late

Gotta get moving

Look at all the time you losing

Slippin you by

Ain't got the time

Sit and recline

Gotta get mine

Gotta be great

Future at stake

Sex on the lake

Bad bitch

Ass with the face

Can't relax

Last chance to have a bag

I aint supposed to have

They sellin dreams

I take mine and do the dash

I do the dash

From the moment I start

I'm stressin

Body tense and

I can't answer all these big questions

Am I an artist

Got what it takes to turn profit

How will I live

I lose words

Drop self worth

Can't decide

What to do first

I should have rehearsed

Feel like I'm in reverse

I

Hook:

Gotta Run

No breaks

Gotta go

No breaks

Gotta Run

Gotta run

I feel my

Head thumpin

Heart jumpin

Feet runnin

Without me

Self doubting

I won't make it out if

I don't go

If I don't go

Verse 2:

Eyes open like a gunshot

Jump out of bed

Mind running hot

Engine of my thoughts overdrive

'fore the day is over I

Got a list a hundred miles

Wanna

See family

Work out like athlete

Make parents proud of me

Income come passively

Compound it annually

Ain't earned a day off yet

Every day feels like the last chance I'll get

Every day feels like the last chance I'll have

Least I ain't start it stiff

Transferred from a park bench

To an ambulance

Least I ain't start it drunk

Images of dead loved ones

Waking me up

All the ugly I seen

I gotta make it

All this pain

Weighin' on me

Who else gon' vindicte it?

Hook:

Gotta Run

No breaks

Gotta go

No breaks

Gotta Run

Gotta run

I feel my

Head thumpin

Heart jumpin

Feet runnin

Without me

Self doubting

I won't make it out if

I don't go

If I don't go

Outro:

Always out of time

I'm always out of time

Not enough time

There's not enough time

Not enough time

Gotta run