Lauryn Hill - War in the Mind (Freedom Time) lyrics

Everybody knows that they guilty Everybody knows that they've lied Everybody knows that they guilty Resting on their conscience eating their inside It's freedom, said it's freedom time now It's freedom, said it's freedom time now Time to get free, or give yourselves up now It's freedom, said it's freedom time [Rapping] Yo, there's a war in the mind, over territory For the dominion Who will dominate the opinion Skisms and isms, keepin' us in forms of religion Conformin' our vision To the world church's decision Trapped in a section Submitted to committee election Moral infection Epidemic lies and deception Insurrection Of the highest possible order Destortin' our tape recorders From hearin' like under water Beyond the borders Find the sin in disorder Bound by the strategy A systematic depravity Heavy as gravity Head first in the cavity Without a bottom A fate, worse than Sodom What's got 'em, drunk off the spirits Truth comes, we can't hear it When you've been, programmed to fear it I had a vision I was fallin' in indescision Apallin', callin' religious Some program on television How can, dominant wisdom Be recognized in the system Of Anti-Christ, the majority rules Intelligent fools PhDs in illusion Masters of ma** confusion Bachelors in past delusion Now who you choosin'? The head, or the tail The bloodshed of the male Or confidence in the tale Conferences is Yale Discussin' doctrines of Baal Causin' people to fail Keepin' the third in jail His word has nailed Everything to the tree Severing all of me From all that I used to be Formless and void Totally paranoid Enjoy darkness as Lord Keepin' me from the sword Block for mercy Bitter than cerasee Hungry and thirsty For good meat we would eat And still, dined at the table of deceit How incomplete From confrontation to retreat We belong, in true enemies defeat Destitute in a necessity Causin' desperation to get the best of me Punishment 'til there was nothing left of me Realizin' the inescapable d**h of me No options in the valley of decision The only doctrine, supernatural circumcision Inwardly, only water can purge the heart From words to fiery darts Thrown by the workers of the arts Iniquity, shapen in There's no escapin' when Your whole philosophy is paper thin In vanity The wide road is insanity Could it be all of humanity Picture that Scripture that The origin of a man's heart is black How can we show up for An invisible war Preoccupied with a shadow, makin' love with a who*e Achin' in sores Babylon, the great mystery Mother of human history System of social sorcery Our present condition Needs serious recognition Where there's no repentance there can be no admission And that sentence, more serious than Vietnam The atom bomb and Saddam and Minister Farrakhan What's goin' on, what's a priority to you By what authority do to you The majority hasn't a clue We majored in curses Search the chapters, check the verses Recapture the land Remove the mark from off of our hands So we can stand In agreement with his command Everything else is damned Let them with ears understand Everything else is damned, let them with ears understand It's freedom, said it's freedom time now It's freedom, said it's freedom time now It's freedom, I'mma be who I am It's freedom time, said it's freedom time Everybody knows that they've lied Everybody knows that they've perpetrated inside Everybody knows that they guilty, yes Resting on their conscience eating their insides Get free, be who you're supposed to be Freedom, said it's freedom time now Freedom, said it's freedom time Freedom, freedom time now