Freeman (feat. Black Milk)

Yeah

It took a while to get my head around what karma is

I saw a glimpse of the future and it was ominous

These pigs pull up and pop on us, they cartilage

And empty stair as eyes lose they consciousness

These politicians use the topic, but it's obvious

They just hope our voices all remain anonymous

Huh, you know what time it is

It feels like the awakenin'

They have forsaken, I've got nothin' to say to them

I lost too much family, there's no replacin' them

Back in '93 and '94, yo, it was crazy then

I was just a baby then, I didn't understand the significance

Protected like a halo, bought my innocence

I guess I'm lucky, in a sense

If I was older, I woulda been forced to shoulder

The choice of bein' a rebel, maybe even a soldier

My father told me war is like the venom in a cobra

I replied, "I'd rather have a weapon on my shoulder"

Fight the good fight till it's over

They say we gon' see

If we set our people free

Yeah, tell em, "Lean on me"

This is what it means to me

Yeah, they say we gon' see

If we set our people free

Yeah, tell em, "Lean on me"

This is what it means to me

Yeah, light years, the sky shifts away from the source

Put my source in the pain, inside my daddy's coat

Where the family poor and the casualties sore

Where they casually call to finesse you for all you can afford

And more, but tell me you and your

When the view from the record store that's on my floor

Is underwater, and the view from there is extortion

Dead bodies are the norm like you work at the morgue

And what's a freeman, Morgan

Independence was a life distorted

To steal resources and they're back to the Lords

And British man laws, and the Swiss Bank frauds

And, yeah, swish, they scored, and that's real

So did I 'cause of where I was born

Before you white boys got the noise to retort

The same claws that tore the diaspora

And the same laws enforced to keep indigenous folk in the corner

Yeah, they say we gon' see

If we set our people free

Yeah, tell em, "Lean on me"

This is what it means to me

Yeah, they say we gon' see

If we set our people free

Yeah, tell em, "Lean on me"

This is what it means to me

Yeah

Yeah, time tells, flyin' shells

On that corner dwells, where lives fell

Knowin' it wasn't really your fault how you was livin'

We was all grown to be doomed from the beginnin'

Some came up, some learned the hard way

Kneelin' in the hallway, throwin' dice against the wall

Waitin' for them lucky numbers that never came

So the thought to break the law was entertained

They fallin' for it, in front of cameras

Think I care if it's all recorded, my ****?

That's what this ski masks for

Four in the mornin', make the youngin' join in

He ain't really want it, but that's how we get the next ones

Ready to fall in this trap

It's like a track, how the cycle laps across the map

But not exactly how I had my plans

Now I fully understand how we lost in the end

Tryin' to win, just another soul lost in the wind, in the