Around My Way (Freedom Ain't Free) - Lupe Fiasco

Around My Way (Freedom Ain't Free) LRC歌词

[00:20.38]First off say peace to Pine Ridge

[00:22.26]Shame at all the damage the white man wine did

[00:24.26]Ghost dance, Trail of Tears, 5 million beers a year

[00:26.94]And all that other crime did

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[00:29.13]More peace to the teachers of blind kids

[00:31.13]To rebels in small cells keeping their mind big

[00:33.81]Say everything's hostile

[00:34.51]Suicide bombers and prosperity gospels, emaciated models

[00:38.50]With ******* and blood pouring out their nostrils, they got to

[00:41.94]Just to stay awake on the catwalk of life where everybody watch you

[00:45.69]Straight hair, high heels and a handbag

[00:48.13]Crucifixes, racism and a land grab

[00:50.56]Katrina, FEMA trailers, human body sandbags

[00:52.31]A peace sign and a pants sag

[00:55.26]A money toss cause a 9 stripper mad dash

[00:57.57]A friend request following a hash tag

[00:59.88]Now everybody want it like the last laugh

[01:02.38]A Michael Jackson jacket or a daft mask

[01:04.50]Purple Jordans or the mixed girl in your math class

[01:06.88]Stable is when the Ba'ath had Baghdad

[01:08.50]But corporate jets really had to have that gas bad

[01:11.32]War and they hope they all fall from the ratatat

[01:13.88]Cause that's just more dinosaur for the Cadillac

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[01:16.31]Live from the other side what you see

[01:18.12]A bunch of nonsense on my TV

[01:20.37]Heaven on Earth is what I need

[01:22.68]But I feel I'm in hell every time I breathe

[01:25.12]Reporting live from the other side what you hear

[01:27.44]A bunch of nonsense all in my ear

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[01:29.82]Rich man, poor man, we all gotta pay

[01:32.19]Cause freedom ain't free, especially 'round my way

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[01:35.10]And we marvel at the state of Ottoman

[01:37.53]Then turn around and treat Ghana like a garbage can

[01:39.73]America's a big ************' garbageman

[01:41.97]If you ain't know, you're part and parcel of the problem

[01:44.48]You say no you ain't, and I say yes you is

[01:46.54]Soon as you find out what planned obsolescence is

[01:48.91]You say no they didn't, and I say yes they did

[01:51.35]The definition of unnecessary-ness

[01:53.29]Manifested

[01:56.04]Say that we should protest just to get arrested

[01:58.10]That goes against all my hustling ethics

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[02:00.29]A bunch of jail ****** say its highly ineffective

[02:02.85]Depart from Martin, connect on Malcolm X tip

[02:05.16]Insert Baldwin to similar the separate

[02:07.48]To me, the truth is more fulfilling than a meth hit

[02:09.87]Or finding really fast internet to have some *** with

[02:12.49]It's all one song short of a set list

[02:14.37]Couple croissants shy of a continental breakfast

[02:16.74]Or blowing out your birthday candles just to make a death wish

[02:19.19]So absurd word to Chief Bone Necklace

[02:20.88]Down at the Lakota Sioux Casino

[02:23.76]A whole culture boiled down to giving you paquino

[02:26.00]I go as left as a heart in the chest

[02:28.26]Cause the Horn of Africa is now starving to death

[02:31.00]Live from the other side what you see

[02:32.94]A bunch of nonsense on my TV

[02:35.26]Heaven on Earth is what I need

[02:37.63]But I feel I'm in hell every time I breathe

[02:40.07]Reporting live from the other side what you hear

[02:42.38]A bunch of nonsense all in my ear

[02:44.63]Rich man, poor man, we all gotta pay

[02:47.01]Cause freedom ain't free, especially 'round my way

[02:49.52]An all white Los Angeles, the dream of Mr. Chandler

[02:51.84]Hope and pray they take Columbus day up off the calendar

[02:54.27]South Central an example of God's gifts

[02:56.46]So shout to all the mothers raising babies in spa 6

[02:58.96]The projects of Oakland city, Detroit ghost towns

[03:01.15]Monopolies on poverty where D-boy coke bound

[03:03.40]It's parts of Manilla like the video for Thriller

[03:05.77]But the US Embassy is reminiscent of a villa

[03:08.34]If poverty is chocolate and privilege vanilla

[03:09.84]Then what's the flavor of the Sunday preacher's pedophilia

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[03:12.93]Cash rules everything around these ******

[03:15.06]As classrooms everywhere around me wither

[03:17.49]Hither you can be Mr. Burns or Mr. Smithers

[03:19.93]The tyrant or the slave but nowhere in the middle

[03:22.43]Of the extremes of America's dream

[03:24.43]Freud fighting Neo, Freddy Krueger refereeing, naaa,

[03:27.18]Live from the other side what you see

[03:29.12]A bunch of nonsense on my TV

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[03:31.43]Heaven on Earth is what I need

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[03:33.90]But I feel I'm in hell every time I breathe

[03:36.21]Reporting live from the other side what you hear

[03:38.52]A bunch of nonsense all in my ear

[03:40.84]Rich man, poor man, we all gotta pay

[03:43.21]Cause freedom ain't free, especially 'round my way

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