| I’m ready to flee to a better place
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| Go West, South, and East, whatever the way
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| Let’s make a move, hurry up lets go now
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| You got to believe we can get away
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| I’m tired of doin what the devils say
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| We got nothin to lose, take my hand lemme help ya
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| I want to be free, c’mon brotha
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| I want to be free, help each otha
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| I want to be free, love ya sista
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| I want to be free, dont you miss her
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| I want to be free. |
| (lalalalalalala). |
| I want to be free
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| Master say being born colored was the worst disease
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| And we the worst to bread, Worse than flees
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| As long as I work for he, I work for free
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| He beat me like a dick in jail and cursed at me
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| I’m certain we, weren’t put on this earth to be, Bustled
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| Nobody deserve to be, hustled
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| Look here, run I dare ya
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| I catch ya, I’ma give ya more lashes than mascara
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| If its pride or die, im choosin respect
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| I saw my daddy hung dead, wit a noose on his neck
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| My niece got raped pregnant, won’t tell she scared
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| Master done it, but she blamin it on drop dead Fred
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| But one day, things gon' change for better
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| Lord knows it can’t rain forever
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| Thats what I told my momma (mmhmm)
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| Two days later master sold my momma (master sold my momma)
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| Uh, uh, uh. |
| I’m in the field, thats white lil niggas and me
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| From dusk to dawn til the sun come and it leave
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| Through all seasons, Winter, Fall, Summer, and Spring
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| Pickin, pushin, pullin, cuttin the field
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| Sweatin bout to dehydrate, stuck in the heat
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| And when its cold, joints lock up barker than trees
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| Rest, I dont get enough of my sleep
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| Cuz master got us workin late night, and then wakin up in the wee
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| Hours of the mornin, stackin stalks of hay
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| Hopin the rain from dawn til shower day
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| Wishin I could walk away
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| But then I think about Hardaway
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| Master cut off his hand
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| Cuz you can’t talk or sing or speak from your mouth
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| If it ain’t what master talk or say
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| But I was taught to pray to the Lord and have faith
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| Please take me away from this awful place
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| Cuz you can be sold today
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| Man I tell ya drop shit, ain’t nothin
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| Nuff sufferin, done dealt with more headaches the bufferin
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| Gotta spend my time off the destructive by gettin by doe bu-bu-bubblin
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| Can’t risk stumblin, fumblin
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| So im bout takin my life, dice tumblin
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| I drop down the road, tryin to get that pot of gold
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| Still out in the field, mobbin with Sean and Smoke
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| 9 times, nine to five, im troop servin
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| Nine, you bout tryin to eat well, get in line
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| Cuz momma got laid off, the lil sis need shoes
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| My brother just got popped back in his county blues
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| And Pops been made it off, there was no money, no food
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| Comin through next week, my rent and my girl due
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| Life ain’t got no rules, descruction, one-two's
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| So every now and then, your gonna sing the blues |