We bring to you the official lyrics of Runaway by Native Sound System featuring Lojay and Ayra Starr to help you sing along whiles you listen.
For the past five years, NATIVE have been making waves in the realms of fashion, music, publishing, and pop culture (they even put on a festival that brought J Hus, Dave, NSG, and the late Virgil Abloh over to Nigeria). They’re now working on their own music, starting with “Runaway,” a collaboration between two of Nigeria’s hottest young artists, Lojay and Ayra Starr.
They’ve enlisted the help of heavyweight producers Should, Lido, Adey, and New World Ray, a group of producers whose credits and collaborations includes Cordae, Tems, Tiwa Savage, Chance The Rapper, and Ariana Grande, to name a few. The final product is great, combining the two artists’ agonized vocals with sweeping, brooding electronics that raise the melodrama to theatrical proportions.
LYRICS
Verse 1: Lojay
Sweet love from Alabama
Know the distance is a little undeserved
So I’ve been sending kisses through my FaceTime
Cos I’m a little lonely
And I can’t say if you’re happy
Oh anxiety is coursing through your veins
Tell me if you’re looking for some closure
Girl I’ll understand you
Chorus: Lojay
But don’t you runaway away away away ah
Runaway from me yeah
Don’t runaway away away away ah
Runaway from me yeah
Don’t runaway away away away ah
Runaway from me yeah
Verse 2: Ayra Starr
I don’t know
Don’t know the way
You want me to go
If I decide to go another way
Would you still want to follow
Hmm
Please don’t try to
No pull me back the other way
‘If you try too
I swear I’ll go another lane
Don’t know oh
I don’t know what you want from mе ahh
I’ll runaway no stopping
You can’t tell me nothing bout a deeper calling
Oh insidе my mind
How many feet I’ve fallen
Early in the morning
Chorus: Lojay
Don’t you runaway away away away ah
Don’t run
Runaway from me yeah
Don’t runaway away away away ah
Don’t runaway eh
Runaway from me yeah
Don’t runaway away away away ah
Runaway from me yeah
