[Chrisette Michele]
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Oh American citizen, come collect your freedom
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No matter what you're living in
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No more giving in
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Oh American citizen, come collect your freedom
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No matter what you're living in
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It's time to win
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Keep us in the four walls of our churches & we'll be quiet
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Most of us aint even democratic or Republican
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And by coincidence we love the elected
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Until they detected of being human
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America falls, minorities lose war
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But if we unite we would have won the
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War on poverty
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War on drugs
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War on medicaid?
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War on love
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Freedom isn't given & it is taken
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Freedom isn't free, it's earned
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Not known, it's learned
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Been hung and burned,
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Yet rest in peace, resurrected plea
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This aint black or white, it's grey
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This is not about my face
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Most of us don't know what to say
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Right from wrong or free from slaves
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[Chorus]
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Let freedom reign
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Do you wanna be free or do you wanna be bound
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I wanna be, (I wanna be free)
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I wanna be, (I wanna be free)
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I wanna be, (I wanna be free)
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Free,
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[repeated]
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[Talib Kweli]
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America the beautiful
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Suspect as usual
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Liberty and death?
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give me freedom on my funeral
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I walk across the planet with the steps of a giant
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My rhymes bridge the gap between religion and science
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Cause my evidence is spiritual
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I know my sheer presence is a miracle
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I wasn't supposed to be here to share with you
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But here I am, standing with my chest out
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I take my place in history?
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I never get left out
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You stressed out and scared?
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So it's causing you to act hard
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Freedom aint free,?
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Gotta put it on my black card
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My passport claim I'm an American citizen
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The constitution said I'm three fifths
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I'm not a semi and gorrilla
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Make my songs stronger than the horn of Gideon
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Truth is the explorers gave the native people syphillis
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Consider this:
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Christopher Columbus ain't know where he was goin'
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So let's stop calling our Native brothers Indians
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[Chorus]
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[Black Thought]
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We were carried here in shackles from the homelands
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Screwed chop, chain locked, brain washed, programmed
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Time's change, freedom reigns, I'm a grown man
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Holding the future in the palms of my own hands
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In this World, the coonery and tomfoolery
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All I'm trying to do is stay true to my community
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The daily news aint the only thing that's schooling me
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Watching these haters operating with impunity
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It's dirty dollar signs, black and white collar crimes
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Running out of time, out of sight, out of mind
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It gets realer than Is-rael in Palestine
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Troubles of the World start to seem intertwined
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War criminals, conflict minerals,
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Pillagers are coming home
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And five star generals telling lies
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In press conferences and interviews
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I'm trying to take back the power cause it's been abused
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[Chorus]
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[Chrisette Michele]
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I'm just black in America
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I'm not Afro-American
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Just a passive American
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Making believe I'm better than
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What we've been, what we've been
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I said
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I'm just black in America
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I'm not Afro-American
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Just a passive American
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Making believe I'm better than
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What we've been, what we've been
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Let Freedom Reign
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| Chrisette Michele |
