This is just a guess but maybe he's saying he used to try to avoid bad things in his life rather than deal with them (I've been running from it all my lifetime, Ima make a deal with the bad wolf so the bad wolf won't bite no more) but now he's going to try to embrace the bad things in life and accept them (I'd run away for a couple years just to prove I've never been free, my enemy is a friend of mine in a friendly place to be seen)
This is just a guess but maybe he's saying he used to try to avoid bad things in his life rather than deal with them (I've been running from it all my lifetime, Ima make a deal with the bad wolf so the bad wolf won't bite no more) but now he's going to try to embrace the bad things in life and accept them (I'd run away for a couple years just to prove I've never been free, my enemy is a friend of mine in a friendly place to be seen)