*featuring Gil Scott-Heron
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[CHORUS:]
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First in flight [repeated 4X]
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[Gil Scott-Heron:]
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(Cause all we got is rhythm and timin'
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We go beyond the edge of the sky)
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[Gift of Gab]
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FREE! Like a bird out in the wind in the night
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Like a 747 to LA that's in flight
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FREE! Like a garden flourishing in the wind
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Like a student bout to do it when he's graduatin
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FREE! From any of the energy perception
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Can never be defined create the definition within
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FREE! Just lovin life itself and never pretend to be
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Anything other than the man I was meant to be
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Travel through time and get a glimpse of the centuries
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To come a better day is promised remember
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FREE! Like my nephew in a few months about to be out the penitentiary
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Meditation [repeated 9X]
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[Chorus]
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[Gift of Gab]
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UH! I never hesitate about a reluctant mind
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Just put the peddle to the metal see what ya find
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You back there slouchin over won't you pick up your spine?
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Let's make it really really happen live up this time
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Cause you can choose to say "Good morning God" or "Good God, morning"
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With black clouds storming
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I walk without umbrellas into these woods
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Don't need em cause the mighty trees will shelter me good
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I'm eating berries from the bushes of the heavenly good
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From the ?stakes/steaks? the power came to us whenever we stood
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Reverberatin out we're reachin each and every hood
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Whenver we could the spiritual anatomy fool
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But never take the credit for it B cause that'd be rude
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It's just the way in life we searchin for that had to be new
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You gotta work it though cause everyday ain't Saturday fool
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Evolve into a better life and be happy with you and me
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[Chorus]
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[Gil Scott-Heron]
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The first to fly
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The first to strive
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The first to fight to stay alive
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The first to win
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The first to strike
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The first to live
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The first in flight
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[Gift of Gab]
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RISE! Like the sun up at the crack of the dawn
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Like a wakin child in the morning stretchin and yawnin
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RISE! Like an infant being held in the light
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Like the smoke from an incense when it's ignited
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RISE! If you're sleepin won't you open your eyes again
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The greatest high be that natural high within
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No need to force the progression just ride the wind
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You'll know the answer to the where and why and when
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If you keep workin for your search you will find the end
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Though at the end you find it only begins again
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See at the end you'll see it only begins again
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And everything you learn you're only rememberin
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Cause you're
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[Chorus (repeat 4X)]
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[Gift of Gab: repeat 2X]
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It's me
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Let your mind and your soul be free
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Work to shine meet your goal believe
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Spread that kind of L-O-V-E
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Take some time off the lonely
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[Gil Scott-Heron: repeat to end]
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Cause all we got is rhythm and timin'
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We go beyond the edge of the sky
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First In Flight
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| Blackalicious |
