[Singing Chorus]
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I get out, I get out of all your boxes
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I get out, you can't hold me in these chains
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I'll get out
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Father free me from this bondage
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Knowin' my condition
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Is the reason I must change
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[Verse 1]
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Your stinkin' resolution
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Is no type of solution
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Preventin' me from freedom
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Maintainin' your polution
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I won't support your lie no more
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I won't even try no more
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If I have to die, oh Lord
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That's how I choose to live
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I won't be compromised no more
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I can't be victimised no more
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I just don't sympathize no more
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Cuz now I understand
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You just wanna use me
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You say "love" then abuse me
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You never thought you'd loose me
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But how quickly we forget
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That nothin' is for certain
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You thought I'd stay here hurtin'
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Your guilt trip's just not workin'
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Repressin' me to death
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Cuz now I'm choosin' life, yo
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I take the sacrifice, yo
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If everything must go, then go
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That's how I choose to live
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[Pause]
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[Singing rest of Verse 1]
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That's how I choose to live...
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Hehehehe, awhh
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No more compromises
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I see past your diguises
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Blindin' through mind control
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Stealin' my eternal soul
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Appealin' through material
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To keep me as your slave
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[Singing Chorus]
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But I get out
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Oh, I get out of all your boxes
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I get out
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Oh, you can't hold me in these chains
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I'll get out
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Oh, I want out of social bondage
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Knowin' my condition
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Oh, is the reason I must change
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[Singing Verse 2]
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See, what you see is what you get
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Oh, and you ain't seen nothin' yet
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Oh, I don't care if you're upset
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I could care less if you're upset
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See it don't change the truth
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And your hurt feeling's no excuse
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To keep me in this box
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Psychological locks
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Repressin' true expression
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Cementin' this repression
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Promotin' mass deception
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So that no one can be healed
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I don't respect your system
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I won't protect your system
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When you talk I don't listen
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Oh, let my Father's will be done
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[Singing Chorus]
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And just get out
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Oh, just get out of all these bondage
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Just get out
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Oh, you can't hold me in chains
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Just get out
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All these traditions killin' freedom
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Knowin' my condition
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Is the reason I must change
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[Singing Verse 3]
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I've just accepted what you said
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Keepin' me among the dead
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The only way to know
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Is to walk then learn and grow
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But faith is not your speed
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Oh, you've had everyone believed
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That you're the sole authority
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Just follow the majority
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Afraid to face reality
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The system is a joke
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Oh, you'd be smart to save your soul
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Oh, when escape is mind control
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You spent your life in sacrifice
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To a system for the dead
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Oh, are you sure...
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Where is the passion in this living
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Are you sure it's God you servin'
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Obligated to a system
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Getting less then you're deserving
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Who made up these schools, I say
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Who made up these rules, I say
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Animal conditioning
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Oh, just to keep us as a slave
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[Singing Chorus]
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Oh, just get out
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Of this social purgatory
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Just get out
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All these traditions are alive
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Just get out
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Superstition killing freedom
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Knowin' my condition
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Is the reason I must die
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Just get out
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Just get out
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Just get out
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Let's get out
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Let's get out
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Knowin' my condition
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Is the reason I must die
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Just get out
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I Get Out
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| Lauryn Hill |
