[ti:Around My Way (Freedom Ain't Free)]
[ar:Lupe Fiasco]
[al:Around My Way (Freedom Ain't Free)]
[by:lrc.d4321.com]
[00:20.380] First off say peace to Pine Ridge
[00:22.260] Shame at all the damage the white man wine did
[00:24.260] Ghost dance, Trail of Tears, 5 million beers a year
[00:26.940] And all that other crime did
[00:29.130] More peace to the teachers of blind kids
[00:31.130] To rebels in small cells keeping their mind big
[00:33.810] Say everything's hostile
[00:34.510] Suicide bombers and prosperity gospels, emaciated models
[00:38.500] With ******* and blood pouring out their nostrils, they got to
[00:41.940] Just to stay awake on the catwalk of life where everybody watch you
[00:45.690] Straight hair, high heels and a handbag
[00:48.130] Crucifixes, racism and a land grab
[00:50.560] Katrina, FEMA trailers, human body sandbags
[00:52.310] A peace sign and a pants sag
[00:55.260] A money toss cause a 9 stripper mad dash
[00:57.570] A friend request following a hash tag
[00:59.880] Now everybody want it like the last laugh
[01:02.380] A Michael Jackson jacket or a daft mask
[01:04.500] Purple Jordans or the mixed girl in your math class
[01:06.880] Stable is when the Ba'ath had Baghdad
[01:08.500] But corporate jets really had to have that gas bad
[01:11.320] War and they hope they all fall from the ratatat
[01:13.880] Cause that's just more dinosaur for the Cadillac
[01:16.310] Live from the other side what you see
[01:18.120] A bunch of nonsense on my TV
[01:20.370] Heaven on Earth is what I need
[01:22.680] But I feel I'm in hell every time I breathe
[01:25.120] Reporting live from the other side what you hear
[01:27.440] A bunch of nonsense all in my ear
[01:29.820] Rich man, poor man, we all gotta pay
[01:32.190] Cause freedom ain't free, especially 'round my way
[01:35.100] And we marvel at the state of Ottoman
[01:37.530] Then turn around and treat Ghana like a garbage can
[01:39.730] America's a big ************' garbageman
[01:41.970] If you ain't know, you're part and parcel of the problem
[01:44.480] You say no you ain't, and I say yes you is
[01:46.540] Soon as you find out what planned obsolescence is
[01:48.910] You say no they didn't, and I say yes they did
[01:51.350] The definition of unnecessary-ness
[01:53.290] Manifested
[01:56.040] Say that we should protest just to get arrested
[01:58.100] That goes against all my hustling ethics
[02:00.290] A bunch of jail ****** say its highly ineffective
[02:02.850] Depart from Martin, connect on Malcolm X tip
[02:05.160] Insert Baldwin to similar the separate
[02:07.480] To me, the truth is more fulfilling than a meth hit
[02:09.870] Or finding really fast internet to have some *** with
[02:12.490] It's all one song short of a set list
[02:14.370] Couple croissants shy of a continental breakfast
[02:16.740] Or blowing out your birthday candles just to make a death wish
[02:19.190] So absurd word to Chief Bone Necklace
[02:20.880] Down at the Lakota Sioux Casino
[02:23.760] A whole culture boiled down to giving you paquino
[02:26.000] I go as left as a heart in the chest
[02:28.260] Cause the Horn of Africa is now starving to death
[02:31.000] Live from the other side what you see
[02:32.940] A bunch of nonsense on my TV
[02:35.260] Heaven on Earth is what I need
[02:37.630] But I feel I'm in hell every time I breathe
[02:40.070] Reporting live from the other side what you hear
[02:42.380] A bunch of nonsense all in my ear
[02:44.630] Rich man, poor man, we all gotta pay
[02:47.010] Cause freedom ain't free, especially 'round my way
[02:49.520] An all white Los Angeles, the dream of Mr. Chandler
[02:51.840] Hope and pray they take Columbus day up off the calendar
[02:54.270] South Central an example of God's gifts
[02:56.460] So shout to all the mothers raising babies in spa 6
[02:58.960] The projects of Oakland city, Detroit ghost towns
[03:01.150] Monopolies on poverty where D-boy coke bound
[03:03.400] It's parts of Manilla like the video for Thriller
[03:05.770] But the US Embassy is reminiscent of a villa
[03:08.340] If poverty is chocolate and privilege vanilla
[03:09.840] Then what's the flavor of the Sunday preacher's pedophilia
[03:12.930] Cash rules everything around these ******
[03:15.060] As classrooms everywhere around me wither
[03:17.490] Hither you can be Mr. Burns or Mr. Smithers
[03:19.930] The tyrant or the slave but nowhere in the middle
[03:22.430] Of the extremes of America's dream
[03:24.430] Freud fighting Neo, Freddy Krueger refereeing, naaa,
[03:27.180] Live from the other side what you see
[03:29.120] A bunch of nonsense on my TV
[03:31.430] Heaven on Earth is what I need
[03:33.900] But I feel I'm in hell every time I breathe
[03:36.210] Reporting live from the other side what you hear
[03:38.520] A bunch of nonsense all in my ear
[03:40.840] Rich man, poor man, we all gotta pay
[03:43.210] Cause freedom ain't free, especially 'round my way