[ti:Around My Way (Freedom Ain't Free)]
[ar:Lupe Fiasco]
[al:Around My Way (Freedom Ain't Free)]
[00:11.61]
[00:20.20]First off say peace to Pine Ridge
[00:22.08]Shame at all the damage the white man wine did
[00:24.35]Ghost dance, Trail of Tears, 5 million beers a year
[00:26.92]And all that other crime did
[00:29.03]More peace to the teachers of blind kids
[00:31.17]To rebels in small cells keeping their mind big
[00:33.76]Say everything’s hostile
[00:35.04]Suicide bombers and prosperity gospels, emaciated models
[00:38.42]With cocaine and blood pouring out their nostrils, they got to
[00:41.62]Just to stay awake on the catwalk of life where everybody watch you
[00:45.47]Straight hair, high heels and a handbag
[00:48.27]Crucifixes, racism and a land grab
[00:50.43]Katrina, FEMA trailers, human body sandbags
[00:52.99]A peace sign and a pants sag
[00:55.47]A money toss cause a 9 stripper mad dash
[00:58.01]A friend request following a hash tag
[00:59.81]Now everybody want it like the last laugh
[01:02.33]A Michael Jackson jacket or a daft mask
[01:04.40]Purple Jordans or the mixed girl in your math class
[01:06.94]Stable is when the Ba’ath had Baghdad
[01:08.85]But corporate jets really had to have that gas bad
[01:11.18]War and they hope they all fall from the ratatat
[01:13.90]Cause that’s just more dinosaur for the Cadillac
[01:14.83]
[01:15.97]Live from the other side what you see
[01:18.08]A bunch of nonsense on my TV
[01:20.31]Heaven on Earth is what I need
[01:22.67]But I feel I’m in hell every time I breathe
[01:25.15]Reporting live from the other side what you hear
[01:29.38]A bunch of nonsense all in my ear
[01:29.96]Rich man, poor man, we all gotta pay
[01:32.17]Cause freedom ain’t free, especially ’round my way
[01:33.43]
[01:34.74]And we marvel at the state of Ottoman
[01:37.27]Then turn around and treat Ghana like a garbage can
[01:39.60]America’s a big motherfuckin’ garbageman
[01:41.88]If you ain’t know, you’re part and parcel of the problem
[01:44.27]You say no you ain’t, and I say yes you is
[01:46.56]Soon as you find out what planned obsolescence is
[01:48.84]You say no they didn’t, and I say yes they did
[01:51.16]The definition of unnecessary-ness
[01:53.66]Manifested
[01:55.72]Say that we should protest just to get arrested
[01:58.00]That goes against all my hustling ethics
[02:00.30]A bunch of jail niggas say its highly ineffective
[02:02.79]Depart from Martin, connect on Malcolm X tip
[02:05.08]Insert Baldwin to similar the separate
[02:07.45]To me, the truth is more fulfilling than a meth hit
[02:09.68]Or finding really fast internet to have some sex with
[02:11.64]It’s all one song short of a set list
[02:14.34]Couple croissants shy of a continental breakfast
[02:16.87]Or blowing out your birthday candles just to make a death wish
[02:18.99]So absurd word to Chief Bone Necklace
[02:22.28]Down at the Lakota Sioux Casino
[02:23.67]A whole culture boiled down to giving you paquino
[02:26.59]I go as left as a heart in the chest
[02:28.31]Cause the Horn of Africa is now starving to death
[02:30.03]
[02:30.88]Live from the other side what you see
[02:32.95]A bunch of nonsense on my TV
[02:35.24]Heaven on Earth is what I need
[02:37.49]But I feel I’m in hell every time I breathe
[02:40.03]Reporting live from the other side what you hear
[02:42.35]A bunch of nonsense all in my ear
[02:44.62]Rich man, poor man, we all gotta pay
[02:47.06]Cause freedom ain’t free, especially ’round my way
[02:47.85]
[02:49.35]An all white Los Angeles, the dream of Mr. Chandler
[02:51.77]Hope and pray they take Columbus day up off the calendar
[02:54.54]South Central an example of God’s gifts
[02:56.40]So shout to all the mothers raising babies in spa 6
[02:58.83]The projects of Oakland city, Detroit ghost towns
[03:01.09]Monopolies on poverty where D-boy coke bound
[03:03.43]It’s parts of Manilla like the video for Thriller
[03:05.74]But the US Embassy is reminiscent of a villa
[03:08.12]If poverty is chocolate and privilege vanilla
[03:10.49]Then what’s the flavor of the Sunday preacher’s pedophilia
[03:13.00]Cash rules everything around these niggas
[03:15.22]As classrooms everywhere around me wither
[03:17.53]Hither you can be Mr. Burns or Mr. Smithers
[03:19.95]The tyrant or the slave but nowhere in the middle
[03:22.34]Of the extremes of America’s dream
[03:24.44]Freud fighting Neo, Freddy Krueger refereeing, naaa…
[03:26.18]
[03:26.95]Live from the other side what you see
[03:29.05]A bunch of nonsense on my TV
[03:31.24]Heaven on Earth is what I need
[03:33.53]But I feel I’m in hell every time I breathe
[03:35.92]Reporting live from the other side what you hear
[03:38.35]A bunch of nonsense all in my ear
[03:40.70]Rich man, poor man, we all gotta pay
[03:43.09]Cause freedom ain’t free, especially ’round my way
- 专辑：Around My Way (Freedom Ain't Free)
- 歌手：Lupe Fiasco
- 歌曲：Around My Way (Freedom Ain't Free)
