Lupe Fiasco - Around My Way (Freedom Ain't Free) Lyrics
First off say peace to Pine RidgeShame at all the damage that the white man wine didGhost dance, Trail of Tears, 5 million beers a yearAnd all that other crime didMore peace to the teachers of blind kidsTo rebels in small cells keeping their mind bigSay everything's hostileSuicide bombers and prosperity gospels, emaciated modelsWith cocaine and blood pouring out their nostrils, they got toJust to stay awake on the catwalk of life where everybody watch youStraight hair, high heels and a handbagCrucifixes, racism and a land grabKatrina, FEMA trailers, human body sandbagsA peace sign and a pants sagA money toss cause a 9 stripper mad dashA friend request following a hash tagNow everybody want it like a last laughA Michael Jackson jacket or a daft maskPurple Jordans or the mixed girl in your math classStable is when the Ba'ath had BaghdadBut corporate jets really had to have that gas badWar and they hope they all fall from the ratatatCause that's just more dinosaur for the Cadillac[Hook]Live from the other side what you seeA bunch of nonsense on my TVHeaven on Earth is what I needBut I feel I'm in Hell every time I breatheReporting live from the other side what you hearA bunch of nonsense all in my earRich man, poor man, we all gotta payCause freedom ain't free, especially 'round my way[Verse 2]And we marvel at the state of OttomanThen turn around and treat Ghana like a garbage canAmerica's a big mother*****in' garbagemanIf you ain't know, you're part and parcel of the problemYou say no you ain't, and I say yes you isSoon as you find out what planned obsolescence isYou say no they didn't, and I say yes they didThe definition of unnecessary-ness manifestedSay that we should protest just to get arrestedThat goes against all my hustling ethicsA bunch of jail niggas say its highly ineffectiveDepart from Martin, connect on Malcolm X tipInsert Baldwin to similar the separateTo me, the truth is more fulfilling than a meth hitOr finding really fast internet to have some sex withIt's all one song short of a set listCouple croissants shy of a continental breakfastOr blowing out your birthday candles just to make a death wishSo absurd, word to Chief Bone NecklaceDown at the Lakota Sioux CasinoA whole culture boiled down to giving you pokenoI go as left as a heart in the chestCause the Horn of Africa is now starving to death[Hook][Verse 3]An all white Los Angeles, the dream of Mr. ChandlerHope and pray they take Columbus day up off the calendarSouth Central an example of God's giftsSo shout to all the mothers raising babies in SPA 6The projects of Oakland city, Detroit ghost townsMonopolies on poverty where D-boy coke boundIt’s parts of Manila like the video for "Thriller"But the US Embassy is reminiscent of a villaIf poverty is chocolate and privilege vanillaThen what’s the flavor of the Sunday preacher’s pedophiliaCash rules everything around these niggasAs classrooms everywhere around me witherHither you can be Mr. Burns or Mr. SmithersThe tyrant or the slave but nowhere in the middleOf the extremes of America’s dreamFreud fighting Neo, Freddy Krueger refereeing, now…[Hook]
