[Singing Chorus]
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Everybody knows that they're guilty
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Everybody knows that they've lied
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Everybody knows that they're guilty
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Resting on their conscience eating their inside
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It's freedom, said it's freedom time now
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It's freedom, said it's freedom time now
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Time to get free, oh give us (?)
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It's freedom, said it's freedom time
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[First and only verse]
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Yo, there's a war in the mind, over territory
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For the dominion
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Who will dominate the opinion
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Skisms and isms, keepin' us in forms of religion
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Conformin' our vision
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To the world churches decision
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Trapped in a section
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Submitted to commiting election
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Moral infection
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Epedemic lies and deception
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Insurrection
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Of the highest possible order
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Destortin' our tape recorders
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From hearin' like under water
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Beyond the borders
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Fond of sin and disorder
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Bound by the strategy
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It's systematic deprivaty
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Heavy as gravity
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Head first in the cavity
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Without a bottom
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A faith, worse than Saddam
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Once got him
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Drunk of the spirits
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Truth comes, we can't hear it
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When you've been, programmed to fear it
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I had a vision
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I was fallin' in indescision
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Apollin', callin' religion
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Some program on television
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How can, dime and the wisdom
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Be recognized in the system
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Of Anti-Christ, the majority rules
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Intelligent fools
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PhD's in illusion
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Masters of massconfusion
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Bacholors in past illusion
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Now who you choosin'
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The head, the tail
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The bloodshed of male
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More confidence in the tale
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Conference is in Yale
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Discussin' doctrines of Baal
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Causin' people to fail
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Keepin' the third in jail
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His word is nale
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Everything to the tree
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Severing all of me from all that I used to be
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Formless and void
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Totally paranoid
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Enjoy darkness as the Lord
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Keepin' me from the sword
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Block for mercy
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Bitter than (?)
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Hungry and thirsty
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For good meat we would eat
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And still, dined at the table of deceit
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How incomplete
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From confrontation to retreat
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We prolong the true enemies defeat
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Death to the ascendancy
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Causin' desperation to get the best of me
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Punishment 'til there was nothing left of me
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Realizin' the unescapable death of me
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No options in the valley of decision
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The only doctrine, supernatural circumcision
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Inwardly, only war that can purge the heart
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From words that fiery darts
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Thrown by the workers of the arts
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Iniquity, shapen in
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There'e no escapin' when
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You're whole philosophy is paper thin
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In vanity
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The wide road is insanity
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Could it be all of humanity
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Picture that
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Scripture that
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The origin of a man's heart is black
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How can we show up for
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An invisible war
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Preoccupied with a shadow, makin' love with a whore
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Achin' in sores
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Babylon, the great mystery
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Mother of human history
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System of social sorcery
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Our present condition
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Needs serious recognition
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Where there's no repentance there can be no remission
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And that sentence, more serious than Vietnam
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The atom bomb is Saddam and Minister Farakkhan
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What's goin' on, what's the priority to you
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What authority do we do
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When the majority hasn't a clue
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We majored in curses
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Search the chapters, check the verses
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Recapture the land
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Remove the mark from off of our hands
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So we can stand
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In agreement with his command
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Everything else is damned
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Let them what is understand
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Everything else is damned, let them what ears understand
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[Singing Chorus]
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It's freedom, said it's freedom time now
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It's freedom, said it's freedom time now
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It's freedom, I'ma be who I am
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It's freedom time, said it's freedom time
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Everybody knows that they've lied
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Everybody knows that they've perpetrated inside
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Everybody knows that they're guilty, yes
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Resting on their conscience eating their insides
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Get free, be who you're suppost to be
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Freedom, said it's freedom time now
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Freedom, said it's freedom time
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Freedom, freedom time now
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Freedom Time
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| Lauryn Hill |
