| Here I stand, a man not free
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| Whip markers on my back, shackles on both feet
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| Picking cotton in the stone heat
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| Played along my soul keep for one day he came and told me
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| In the year of 1831 I awoke at dawn
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| To see his vision in the sun
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| It seemed that the clouds parted tippling off his tongue
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| And he said «My son, the revolution has begun»
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| And with that, I knew the message was clear
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| We’ll kill the suppressor who kept us in prison for years
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| Raped our women in laughter and tears
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| Made us build their meal while they sit back in their chairs
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| Late night, I chat with my peers, we build weapons
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| No guns, we must slice them from neck to the ears
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| With spears, so they can hear
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| The pain of the people who are God’s creation, not theirs
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| I’m the one that they don’t teach you in class about
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| I’m the one who ran up in the master’s house
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| Put a knife to his neck and then gagged his mouth
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| Charged him for black murder, I’m Nat Turner
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| Through the darkness, we march like hellions
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| They called it a massacre, I call a rebellion
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| We moved quickly, with no time to spare
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| Blood loss, leave no life to spare
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| Women and children neither
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| After we freed our brothers we burned down the house to ensure no survivors
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| A horseback we rode, blood dripping from the hooves
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| Head out 'till dawn, resist in the woods
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| Then we attack again, ravish them
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| The braids slashed against the master’s plastic skin
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| The murder was so passionate
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| Screaming to the heavens, we would never ever go back again
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| Word began to spread, up the violent mall
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| That wolf walked the wicked into the side of God
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| This was where the demise begins
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| It was written in my tan, we all need to come to a violent end
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| After two days of non-stop action we rested
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| In the back-roads of a, you got hit by the night crescent
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| It was here I began to fight my confessions
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| Before I knew it was only a matter of time 'fore they catch us
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| A house nigga got scared, ran to the county building
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| Told them our whereabouts, then they beat him 'till they killed him
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| In the starry night I saw the flames from the distance
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| Attacked us while we slept, but this time we’re different
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| We fought back
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| But the slaves told me the revolution would only stop if they caught Nat
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| So again on horseback I rode, negate the chase
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| Caught up with me eventually, had to face fate
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| They hung me, kept my head as a souvenir
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| Beat slaves to death as they were consumed with fear
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| You got the uprising of blacks on happening, and attack further
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| Because of the name Nat Turner |