Various Artists & TLC
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(appears on the Panther soundtrack)
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Now this is time for free your mind and your soul
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Yo our official story has never been told
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Ladies you got to demand what you want
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And what we want is respect, right
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Yo listen up on the track here
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Cuz you'll also have to deal with it right
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Freedom every time for the sisters
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Check this watch this
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A here we go now
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Listen if I'm Poompa Moo
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I'll be the ruler like Slick Rick
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Get with this quick witted
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Adidas-wearing chick
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Poppa got a brand new bag
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Momma got a brand new Jag
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A gold tag I ain't no old hag
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I represent not only in the kitchen
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And the bedroom room
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But also in the board room
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So give me more room
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Deny my opportunity
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You in jeopardy
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Yo-Yo set me free
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Don't hinder me
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Let me be
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My fightin' for freedom
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I got the heat in case you need 'em
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I'm a straight soldier
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Ain't nobody told you
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Hold up on them lies
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I know your games and your plans
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Do whatever you can to oppress demand
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But when it's time to drop the bomb
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Bring the funk and it's on
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You say you never met a sister so strong
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You're wrong now how can we be free
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It takes you and it takes me
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To blend together in harmony
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And peace and love and all of the above
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Sisters coming together representing one love
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No disrespect but we gotta get it together
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No matter what's the weather
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Sisters gotta stick together
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If sisters be stronger
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Don't let 'em steer you wrong
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Hold on cuz sisters got it going on
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Yeah
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Chorus:
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Let's free your mind and your soul
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Don't let no guys go and take control
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Because you're young and a you play the role
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And our official story has never been told
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Whoever said these are the things that you can do
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And the things you ain't supposed to
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So am I further when I think I'm getting closer
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That's when I tend to think of Rosa how was it
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Took a seat to make a stand
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But now in standing we've gotten more demanding
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They never thought in planning
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That a wish for us to sit would be a dose of
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This fucking rollercoaster
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Whether tradition or religion
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Why you question my decision
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Why you spend up all your time trying to
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Get into my mind
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Why everybody and they mama
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Gots to add to all my drama mad drama
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Hell if I'ma keep my dominating feministic hell
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Creating CrazySexyCool black ass
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In the palms of your player hater's stands
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My only chance of being free is to fly within me
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And it's illegal to kill a fucking eagle
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A bird is never more important than my people
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I guess we didn't need him so I took away his freedom
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Chorus
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My spiritual awareness leads me to believe
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That you doubt in the sisters
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That come with the peace we've been together
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Since God created all of Thee
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African daughters celebration is in order
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Pop the cork and give the champagne to the stork
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That brought the Lyte to my momma in New York
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African I come again and again
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You kick me down I get back up
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I'm coming back in multiples of ten
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You know where I come from
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Slung from the belly of the beast
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Used to speak African tongue
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So I showed her next one bolder
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Slung the devil over my shoulder
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I'm getting over cuz I'm bolder than the next
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I'm enlightened cuz I speak the real truth from the text
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Who's next to flex with this S-I-S-T-E-R
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The sun the moon the crest and the star
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Wanna see how open you are
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Chorus
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Come and take a walk with me
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Closer walk with thee
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See what only I can see
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Nobody knows the trouble I've seen
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So it's back to the womb of everlasting life
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And truth let the heaven of a
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Sister embrace you and praise them other gods
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Come into the light let it shine blackness is fine
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The blackness of your skin
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The blackness of your mind
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I am who I am and that's who I be
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And I don't give a damn if your eyes can't see
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If you can't see what I can see
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That you're blind baby bop
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I'm a woman who's black so back up back up
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Cuz it's on I'ma tell you strong what's wrong
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With the world that we're living on
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It ain't who you know it ain't what you drive
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It's about how you feel about yourself
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On the inside when your self-esteem is low
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