Lupe Fiasco - Around My Way (Freedom Ain't Free) lyrics

[Verse 1] First off say peace to Pine Ridge Shame on all the damage the white man wine did Ghost dance, Trail of Tears, 5 million beers a year And all that other crime did More peace to the teachers of blind kids To rebels in small cells keeping their mind big Say everythings hostile Suicide bombers and prosperity gospels, emaciated models With c**aine and blood pouring out their nostrils, they got to Just to stay awake on the catwalk of life where everybody watch you Straight hair, high heels and a handbag Crucifixes, racism and a land grab Katrina, FEMA trailers, human body sandbags A peace sign and a pants sag A money toss cause a 9 stripper mad dash A friend request following a hash tag Now everybody want it like the last laugh A Michael Jackson jacket or a daft mask Purple Jordans or the mixed girl in your math cla** Stable is when the Baath had Baghdad But corporate jets really had to have that gas bad War and they hope they all fall from the ratatat Cause thats just more dinosaur for the Cadillac [Hook] Live from the other side what you see A bunch of nonsense on my TV Heaven on Earth is what I need But I feel Im in hell every time I breathe Reporting live from the other side what you hear A bunch of nonsense all in my ear Rich man, poor man, we all gotta pay Cause freedom aint free, especially round my way [Verse 2] And we marvel at the state of heart of man Then turn around and treat Ghana like a garbage can Americas a big motherf**in garbageman If you aint know, youre part and parcel of the problem You say no you aint, and I say yes you is Soon as you find out what planned obsolescence is You say no they didnt, and I say yes they did The definition of unnecessary-ness Manifested Say that we should protest just to get arrested That goes against all my hustling ethics A bunch of jail n***as say its highly ineffective Depart from Martin, connect on Malcolm X tip Insert Baldwin to similar the separate To me, the truth is more fulfilling than a meth hit Or finding really fast internet to have some s** with Its all one song short of a set list Couple croissants shy of a continental breakfast Or blowing out your birthday candles just to make a d**h wish So absurd word to Chief Bone Necklace Down at the Lakota Sioux Casino A whole culture boiled down to giving you paquino I go as left as a heart in the chest Cause the Horn of Africa is now starving to d**h [Hook] [Verse 3] An all white Los Angeles, the dream of Mr. Chandler Hope and pray they take Columbus day up off the calendar South Central an example of Gods gifts So shout to all the mothers raising babies in spa 6 The projects of Oakland city, Detroit ghost towns Monopolies on poverty where D-boy coke bound Its parts of Manilla like the video for Thriller But the US Emba**y is reminiscent of a villa If poverty is chocolate and privilege vanilla Then whats the flavor of the Sunday preachers pedophilia Cash rules everything around these n***as As cla**rooms everywhere around me wither Hither you can be Mr. Burns or Mr. Smithers The tyrant or the slave but nowhere in the middle Of the extremes of Americas dream Freud fighting Neo, Freddy Krueger refereeing, naaa [Hook]