Right fromthe first verse, the lyrics of this song can totallyberelated to running: "' Causesometimesyoufeeltired, feel weak, andwhen you feelweak, you feel like you wanna just give up."
By the mid-1950s, in fact, the townships were home to a majority of the country's black population, but they were such rough and rowdy places that many of the rural dispossessed chose not to join the urban rush too weak or too poor, too unskilled and too uneducated, too tiredand too frightened to be comfortable in them.