Around My Way (Freedom Ain t Free)-Lupe Fiasco

[ti:Around My Way (Freedom Ain t F] [ar:Lupe Fiasco] [al:Food & Liquor II: The Great Am] [by:] [00:20.38]First off say peace to Pine Ridge [00:22.25]Shame at all the damage the white man wine did [00:24.25]Ghost dance Trail of Tears 5 million beers a year [00:26.94]And all that other crime did [00:28.62] [00:29.13]More peace to the teachers of blind kids [00:31.13]To rebels in small cells keeping their mind big [00:33.81]Say everything's hostile [00:34.50]Suicide bombers and prosperity gospels emaciated models [00:38.50]With coc*ine and blood pouring out their nostrils they got to [00:41.94]Just to stay awake on the catwalk of life where everybody watch you [00:45.69]Straight hair high heels and a handbag [00:48.13]Crucifixes racism and a land grab [00:50.56]Katrina FEMA trailers human body sandbags [00:52.31]A peace sign and a pants sag [00:55.25]A money toss cause a 9 stripper mad dash [00:57.56]A friend request following a hash tag [00:59.88]Now everybody want it like the last laugh [01:02.37]A Michael Jackson jacket or a daft mask [01:04.50]Purple Jordans or the mixed girl in your math class [01:06.87]Stable is when the Ba'ath had Baghdad [01:08.50]But corporate jets really had to have that gas bad [01:11.31]War and they hope they all fall from the ratatat [01:13.87]Cause that's just more dinosaur for the Cadillac [01:15.69] [01:16.30]Live from the other side what you see [01:18.12]A bunch of nonsense on my TV [01:20.37]Heaven on Earth is what I need [01:22.68]But I feel I'm in hell every time I breathe [01:25.12]Reporting live from the other side what you hear [01:27.43]A bunch of nonsense all in my ear [01:29.31] [01:29.81]Rich man poor man we all gotta pay [01:32.18]Cause freedom ain't free especially 'round my way [01:34.50] [01:35.10]And we marvel at the state of Ottoman [01:37.53]Then turn around and treat Ghana like a garbage can [01:39.72]America's a big motherf**kin' garbageman [01:41.97]If you ain't know you're part and parcel of the problem [01:44.47]You say no you ain't and I say yes you is [01:46.53]Soon as you find out what planned obsolescence is [01:48.91]You say no they didn't and I say yes they did [01:51.35]The definition of unnecessary-ness [01:53.28]Manifested [01:56.03]Say that we should protest just to get arrested [01:58.10]That goes against all my hustling ethics [02:00.28]A bunch of jail niggas say its highly ineffective [02:02.85]Depart from Martin connect on Malcolm X tip [02:05.16]Insert Baldwin to similar the separate [02:07.47]To me the truth is more fulfilling than a meth hit [02:09.86]Or finding really fast internet to have some sex with [02:12.49]It's all one song short of a set list [02:14.36]Couple croissants shy of a continental breakfast [02:16.73]Or blowing out your birthday candles just to make a death wish [02:19.18]So absurd word to Chief Bone Necklace [02:20.88]Down at the Lakota Sioux Casino [02:23.75]A whole culture boiled down to giving you paquino [02:26.00]I go as left as a heart in the chest [02:28.25]Cause the Horn of Africa is now starving to death [02:31.00]Live from the other side what you see [02:32.93]A bunch of nonsense on my TV [02:35.25]Heaven on Earth is what I need [02:37.62]But I feel I'm in hell every time I breathe [02:40.06]Reporting live from the other side what you hear [02:42.37]A bunch of nonsense all in my ear [02:44.62]Rich man poor man we all gotta pay [02:47.00]Cause freedom ain't free especially 'round my way [02:49.52]An all white Los Angeles the dream of Mr Chandler [02:51.83]Hope and pray they take Columbus day up off the calendar [02:54.27]South Central an example of God's gifts [02:56.46]So shout to all the mothers raising babies in spa 6 [02:58.96]The projects of Oakland city Detroit ghost towns [03:01.15]Monopolies on poverty where D-boy coke bound [03:03.40]It's parts of Manilla like the video for Thriller [03:05.77]But the US Embassy is reminiscent of a villa [03:08.33]If poverty is chocolate and privilege vanilla [03:09.83]Then what's the flavor of the Sunday preacher's pedophilia [03:12.08] [03:12.93]Cash rules everything around these niggas [03:15.05]As classrooms everywhere around me wither [03:17.49]Hither you can be Mr Burns or Mr Smithers [03:19.92]The tyrant or the slave but nowhere in the middle [03:22.43]Of the extremes of America's dream [03:24.42]Freud fighting Neo Freddy Krueger refereeing naaa [03:27.17]Live from the other side what you see [03:29.11]A bunch of nonsense on my TV [03:30.86] [03:31.42]Heaven on Earth is what I need [03:33.39] [03:33.90]But I feel I'm in hell every time I breathe [03:36.21]Reporting live from the other side what you hear [03:38.52]A bunch of nonsense all in my ear [03:40.83]Rich man poor man we all gotta pay [03:43.21]Cause freedom ain't free especially 'round my way