Let Freedom Reign-Chrisette Michele

[ti:Let Freedom Reign] [ar:Chrisette Michele] [al:Let Freedom Reign (Deluxe Edition)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Let Freedom Reign - Chrisette Michele [00:06.79]Oh American citizen come collect your freedom [00:11.14] [00:11.84]No matter what you're living in no more giving in [00:16.43] [00:17.28]Oh American citizen come collect your freedom [00:21.90] [00:22.44]No matter what you're living in it's time to win [00:27.23]Keep us in the four walls of our church we'll be quiet [00:29.64]Most of us aren't even Democratic or Republic [00:32.30]Can and by coincidence we love the elected [00:35.15] [00:35.70]Until the detected of being human [00:38.16]American falls minorities lose war [00:40.86]But if we unite we would have won the war [00:43.54]On poverty war on drugs [00:45.66]War on medicate war on love [00:48.34]Freedom isn't given it is taken [00:50.83]Freedom isn't free it's earned [00:52.35]Not no it's learned [00:53.57]Been hung and burned [00:54.87]Yet rest in peace resurrected plea [00:57.13] [00:58.44]This ain't black or white it's gray [01:00.86]This is not about my face [01:03.51]Most of us don't know what to say [01:06.22]Right from wrong or free from slaves [01:09.86]Let freedom reign [01:13.09]Do you wanna be free or do you wanna go down [01:15.30]I wanna be I wanna be I wanna be free [01:20.52]Let freedom reign [01:23.61]Do you wanna be free or do you wanna go down [01:25.84]I wanna be I wanna be I wanna be free [01:31.24]America the beautiful suspect as usual [01:33.68]Liberty and death give me freedom on my funeral [01:36.36]I walk across the planet with the steps of a giant [01:38.91]My rhymes bridge the gap between religion and science [01:41.59]'Cause my evidence is spiritual [01:43.12]I know my sheer presence is a miracle [01:45.03]I wasn't supposed to be here to share with you [01:47.29]But here I am standing with my chest out [01:48.92]I take my place in history I never get left out [01:51.35]You stressed out and scared [01:53.08]So it's causing you to act hard [01:54.46]Freedom ain't free gotta put it on my black card [01:56.64]My passport claim I'm an American citizen [01:59.34]The constitution said I'm three fifths [02:01.62]I'm not a semi and gorilla [02:02.81]Make my songs stronger than the horn of Gideon [02:05.17]Truth is [02:05.69]Gave the native people syphilis [02:07.22]Consider this Christopher Columbus [02:09.86]Ain't know where he was goin' [02:11.18]So let's stop calling our native brothers Indians [02:13.59]Let freedom reign [02:16.86]Do you wanna be free or do you wanna go down [02:19.13]I wanna be I wanna be I wanna be free [02:24.32]Let freedom reign [02:27.59]Do you wanna be free or do you wanna go down [02:29.81]I wanna be I wanna be I wanna be free [02:34.78] [02:35.50]We were carried here in shackles from the homelands [02:37.89]Broom chop chain locked brain washed programmed [02:40.62]Time's change freedom reigns I'm a grown man [02:43.26]Holding the future in the palms of my own hands [02:45.87]In this world the coonery and tomfoolery [02:47.57]All I'm trying to do is stay true to my community [02:51.07]The daily news ain't the only thing that's schooling me [02:53.88]Watching these haters operating with impunity [02:56.30]This journey dollar signs black and white collar crimes [02:59.12]Running out of time out of sight out of mind [03:01.94]It gets realer and it's real in Palestine [03:04.40]Troubles of the world start to seem intertwined [03:07.21]War criminals conflict minerals [03:09.52]Pillagers are coming home five star generals [03:12.41]Telling lies in press conferences and interviews [03:15.07]I'm trying to take back the power [03:16.78]'Cause it's been abused [03:17.72]Let freedom reign [03:21.08]Do you wanna be free or do you wanna go down [03:23.15]I wanna be I wanna be I wanna be free [03:28.07]Let freedom reign [03:32.21]Do you wanna be free or do you wanna go down [03:34.01]I wanna be I wanna be I wanna be free [03:39.26]I'm just black in America [03:41.16]I'm not Afro-American [03:42.94]Just a passive American [03:44.92]Making belief I'm better than [03:47.01]What we've been what we've been [03:49.38]I said I'm just black in America [03:51.55]I'm not Afro-American [03:53.51]Just a passive American [03:55.55]Making belief I'm better than [03:57.94]What we've been what we've been