Around My Way (Freedom Ain't Free)

Around My Way (Freedom Ain't Free) Lyrics

Song Around My Way (Freedom Ain't Free)
Artist Lupe Fiasco
Album Food & Liquor II: The Great American Rap Album Pt. 1
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[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 cocaine 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 motherfuckin' 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 niggas 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 sex 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 niggas
[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
[03:33.40]
[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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