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Common - A Song For Assata

(common) In The Spirit Of The Ancestors. In The Spirit Of God. In The Spirit Of The Black Panthers. In The Spirit Of Assata Shakur. We Make This Movement Towards Freedom For All Those Who Have Been Oppressed, And All Those In The Struggle. Yeah. Yo, Check It- There Were Lights And Sirens, Gunshots Firin Cover Your Eyes As I Describe A Scene So Violent Seemed Like A Bad Dream, She Laid In A Blood Puddle Blood Bubbled In Her Chest, Cold Air Brushed Against Open Flesh No Room To Rest, Pain Consumed Each Breath Shot Twice Wit Her Hands Up Police Questioned But Shot Before She Answered One Panther Lost His Life, The Other Ran For His Scandalous The Police Were As They Kicked And Beat Her Comprehension She Was Beyond, Tryna Hold On That's What It Felt Like, Got To The Hospital, Eyes Held Tight To Life. She Thought She'd Live With No Arm They Moved Her Room To Room-she Could Tell By The Light Handcuffed Tight To The Bed, Through Her Skin It Bit Put Guns To Her Head, Every Word She Got Hit "who Shot The Trooper?" They Asked Her Put Mace In Her Eyes, Threatened To Blast Her Opened Her Eyes, Realized She's Next To Her Best Friend Who Got Killed Her Mind Raced Till Things Got Still She Got Chills, They Told Her: That's Where She Would Be Next Hurt Mixed Wit Anger-survival Was A Reflex They Lied And Denied Visits From Her Lawyer But She Was Buildin As They Tried To Destroy Her If It Wasn't For This German Nurse They Woulda Served Her Worse I Wonder What Would Happen If That Woulda Been Me? I Read This Sister's Story, Knew That It Deserved A Verse All This Shit So We Could Be Free, So Dig It, Y'all. (cee-lo Vocals) Listen To My Love, Assata, Yes. I'm Thinkin' Of Assata, Yes. Your Power And Pride Is Beautiful. May God Bless Your Soul. (common) It Seemed Like The Middle Of The Night When The Law Awakened Her Walkie-talkies Cracklin, I See 'em When They Takin Her Though She Kinda Knew, Arrived To Middlesex Prison About Six Inna Morning What Made The Ride Peaceful Was The Trees And The Sky Was Blue Uneasy As They Pushed Her To The Second Floor In A Cell, One Cot, No Window, Facing Hell. Put In The Basement Of A Prison Wit All Males And The Smell Of Misery, Seatless Toilets And Centipedes She'd Exercise, (paint?,) And Begin To Read Away From People So Long She Forgot How To Speak Two Years Inna Hole. Her Soul Grew Weak She Discovered Frredom Is A Unspoken Sound And A Wall Is A Wall And Can Be Broken Down Found Peace In The Panthers She Went On Trial With One Of The Brothers She Had A Child With The Foulness They Would Feed Her, Hopin She's Lose Her Seed Held Tight, Knowing The Fight Would Live Through This Seed In Need Of A Doctor, From Her Stomach She's Bleed Out Of This Situation A Girl Was Conceived Separated From Her, Left To Mother The Revolution And Lactated To Attack Hate Cause Federal And State Was Built For A Black Fate Her Emptiness Was Filled With Beatings And Court Dates And Said She Robbed Places That Didn't Exist They Fabricated Cases, Hoping One Would Stick In The Midst Of Threats On Her Life And Being Caged With Aryan Whites Through Dark Halls Of Hate She Carried The Light I Wonder What Would Happen If That Woulda Been Me? All Of This Shit So We Could Be Free. Yeah, I Often Wonder What Would Happen If That Woulda Been Me? All Of This Shit So We Could Be Free, So Dig It, People- (cee-lo) I'm Thinkin' Of Assata, Yeah. Listen To My Love, Assata, Yeah. Your Power And Pride, So Beautiful... May God Bless Your Soul. Oooh. (common) Yo From North Carolina Her Grandmother Would Bring Her Dreams Always Meant What They Needed Them To Mean News That She Had Had A Dream What Made Them Real Was The Action In Between She Dreamt That Assata Was Free In They Old House In Queens The Fact That They Always Came True Was The Thing Assata Had Been Convicted Of A Murder She Couldna Done Medical Evidence Shown She Couldna Shot The Gun It's Time For Her To See The Sun From The Other Side Time For Her Daughter To Be By Her Mother's Side Time For Her To Breathe, And Not Be Told How Or When Time For This Beautiful Woman To Become Soft Again She Untangled The Chains And Escaped The Pain How She Broke Out Of Prison I Could Never Explain And Even To This Day They Try To Get To Her But She's Free With Political Asylum In Cuba. (cee-lo Vocals) I'm Thinkin' Of Assata, Yeah. Listen To My Love, Assata, Yeah. We're Molded From The Same Mud, Assata. We Share The Same Blood, Assata, Yeah. Your Power And Pride, So Beautiful... Your Power And Pride, So Beautiful... May God Bless Your Soul. May God Bless Your Soul. Oooh. (assata) Freedom! You Askin Me About Freedom. Askin Me About Freedom? I'll Be Honest With You. I Know A Whole More About What Freedom Isn't Uhh, The Way I See It, Freedom Is-- Is The Right To Grow, Is The Right To Than About What It Is, Cause I've Never Been Free. I Can Only Share My Vision With You Of The Future, About What Freedom Is. Freedom Is -is The Right To Be Yourself, To Be Who You Are, Blossom. To Be Who You Wanna Be, To Do What You Wanna Do. (fade Out)


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