Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Freedumb (when-love-becomes-a-threat) , by - Bootsy Collins. Release date: 15.05.2011
Song language: English
Freedumb (when-love-becomes-a-threat) |
| May you live as long as you want, |
| But never want as long as you live… babay |
| While living in a world of freedom, |
| Because intelligence… is, uh… is so expensive… |
| (Expensive, expensive, expensive) |
| While building a smarter planet, is legal, |
| Yeah… One crime at a time… someone just mugged the Eagle… |
| (the eagle, the eagle, the eagle…) |
| We got to be careful what the words that we use… |
| If we choose to be wounded healers, |
| Rather than wounded hurters, |
| We need words of encouragement, |
| Words of gentleness… |
| Words of kindness… |
| Words of ennoblement… |
| Yeah, we want these sisters and brothers of all colors |
| To broaden their horizons… |
| Connect the three dimensions of time, |
| Your past, your present and your future… |
| You got to respect yourself, |
| Have confidence in yourself… |
| Who told you to doubt yourself! |
| Who told you, you can’t soar like an Eagle… |
| Who told you that you are to demean yourselves… |
| Straighten your back up, |
| When you straighten your back up, you’re going somewhere, |
| 'Cause folks can’t ride your back unless it’s bent… |
| STAND the way Sly Stone said… stand… |
| (If you want to be free…) |
| You say you got a smart phone |
| (then you can’t be dumb…) |
| But you’re still making dumb decisions… |
| (If you want to be free…) |
| Your acting like your full grown, |
| (then you got to get on the one) |
| When you still need your Mama’s permission. |
| Always have a deep sense of connection to the past, |
| A subversive memory that constitutes wind at your back… |
| You are who you are because somebody loved you, |
| Somebody cared for you… somebody attended to you, |
| Make sure that love flows through you, |
| That’s what it means to keep love on the one… |
| Young soul, |
| We love you… |
| We know you can be grander than you are… |
| And we know that the funk means |
| It’s not just about the funk, |
| But the «K», and the «K"is about knowledge, |
| And knowledge is about courage, |
| And the courage is about service, |
| And the service is about sacrifice… |
| (If you want to be free…) |
| You know yesterday’s trash, |
| (then you can’t be dumb…) |
| Could very well be tomorrows fuel… |
| (If you want to be free…) |
| And yesterday’s prisons… |
| (Then you got to get on the one) |
| Ah, could very well be tomorrow’s schools… |
| (I gotta get a witness…) |
| Let us never forget the words of the great Martin Luther King Jr. |
| Who said that «Love is the key that unlocks the door to ultimate reality» |
| Let us understand the words of James Baldwin, when he said, |
| «Love forces us to take off the mask we know we cannot live within, |
| But fear we cannot live without». |
| That’s the kind of love «on the one"we talking about, |
| We want to firm one another. |
| We want to encourage one another… |
| We want to uplift one another… |
| That’s why James Brown, George Clinton, |
| That’s why Aretha Franklin, that’s why Theodore Pendergrass, |
| That’s why basic colors is only ONE… |
| (If you want to be free…) |
| Whooaah yeah bub… |
| (You can’t be dumb) |
| And if you’re on a ship of fools, |
| (If you want to be free…) |
| Let it be said that you are not the captain, babay… |
| (then you got to get on the One…) |
| Keep on pushing… |
| (If you want to be free…) |
| Then who’s right, |
| (then you can’t be dumb…) |
| When there’s no one left… |
| What happens when love is a threat… |
| Ahhhohhh, circus, circus… |