Around My Way-Lupe Fiasco

[ti:Around My Way (Freedom Ain t F] [ar:Lupe Fiasco] [al:Food & Liquor II: The Great Am] [by:] [00:20.47]First off say peace to Pine Ridge [00:22.34]Shame at all the damage the white man wine did [00:24.34]Ghost dance Trail of Tears 5 million beers a year [00:27.03]And all that other crime did [00:28.71] [00:29.22]More peace to the teachers of blind kids [00:31.22]To rebels in small cells keeping their mind big [00:33.90]Say everything's hostile [00:34.59]Suicide bombers and prosperity gospels emaciated models [00:38.59]With coc*ine and blood pouring out their nostrils they got to [00:42.03]Just to stay awake on the catwalk of life where everybody watch you [00:45.78]Straight hair high heels and a handbag [00:48.22]Crucifixes racism and a land grab [00:50.65]Katrina FEMA trailers human body sandbags [00:52.40]A peace sign and a pants sag [00:55.34]A money toss cause a 9 stripper mad dash [00:57.65]A friend request following a hash tag [00:59.97]Now everybody want it like the last laugh [01:02.46]A Michael Jackson jacket or a daft mask [01:04.59]Purple Jordans or the mixed girl in your math class [01:06.96]Stable is when the Ba'ath had Baghdad [01:08.59]But corporate jets really had to have that gas bad [01:11.40]War and they hope they all fall from the ratatat [01:13.96]Cause that's just more dinosaur for the Cadillac [01:15.78] [01:16.39]Live from the other side what you see [01:18.21]A bunch of nonsense on my TV [01:20.46]Heaven on Earth is what I need [01:22.77]But I feel I'm in hell every time I breathe [01:25.21]Reporting live from the other side what you hear [01:27.52]A bunch of nonsense all in my ear [01:29.40] [01:29.90]Rich man poor man we all gotta pay [01:32.27]Cause freedom ain't free especially 'round my way [01:34.59] [01:35.19]And we marvel at the state of Ottoman [01:37.62]Then turn around and treat Ghana like a garbage can [01:39.81]America's a big motherf**kin' garbageman [01:42.06]If you ain't know you're part and parcel of the problem [01:44.56]You say no you ain't and I say yes you is [01:46.62]Soon as you find out what planned obsolescence is [01:49.00]You say no they didn't and I say yes they did [01:51.44]The definition of unnecessary-ness [01:53.37]Manifested [01:56.12]Say that we should protest just to get arrested [01:58.19]That goes against all my hustling ethics [02:00.37]A bunch of jail niggas say its highly ineffective [02:02.94]Depart from Martin connect on Malcolm X tip [02:05.25]Insert Baldwin to similar the separate [02:07.56]To me the truth is more fulfilling than a meth hit [02:09.95]Or finding really fast internet to have some sex with [02:12.58]It's all one song short of a set list [02:14.45]Couple croissants shy of a continental breakfast [02:16.82]Or blowing out your birthday candles just to make a death wish [02:19.27]So absurd word to Chief Bone Necklace [02:20.97]Down at the Lakota Sioux Casino [02:23.84]A whole culture boiled down to giving you paquino [02:26.09]I go as left as a heart in the chest [02:28.34]Cause the Horn of Africa is now starving to death [02:31.09]Live from the other side what you see [02:33.02]A bunch of nonsense on my TV [02:35.34]Heaven on Earth is what I need [02:37.71]But I feel I'm in hell every time I breathe [02:40.15]Reporting live from the other side what you hear [02:42.46]A bunch of nonsense all in my ear [02:44.71]Rich man poor man we all gotta pay [02:47.09]Cause freedom ain't free especially 'round my way [02:49.61]An all white Los Angeles the dream of Mr Chandler [02:51.92]Hope and pray they take Columbus day up off the calendar [02:54.36]South Central an example of God's gifts [02:56.55]So shout to all the mothers raising babies in spa 6 [02:59.05]The projects of Oakland city Detroit ghost towns [03:01.24]Monopolies on poverty where D-boy coke bound [03:03.49]It's parts of Manilla like the video for Thriller [03:05.86]But the US Embassy is reminiscent of a villa [03:08.42]If poverty is chocolate and privilege vanilla [03:09.92]Then what's the flavor of the Sunday preacher's pedophilia [03:12.17] [03:13.02]Cash rules everything around these niggas [03:15.14]As classrooms everywhere around me wither [03:17.58]Hither you can be Mr Burns or Mr Smithers [03:20.01]The tyrant or the slave but nowhere in the middle [03:22.52]Of the extremes of America's dream [03:24.51]Freud fighting Neo Freddy Krueger refereeing naaa [03:27.26]Live from the other side what you see [03:29.20]A bunch of nonsense on my TV [03:30.95] [03:31.51]Heaven on Earth is what I need [03:33.48] [03:33.99]But I feel I'm in hell every time I breathe [03:36.30]Reporting live from the other side what you hear [03:38.61]A bunch of nonsense all in my ear [03:40.92]Rich man poor man we all gotta pay [03:43.30]Cause freedom ain't free especially 'round my way