Lauryn Hill - Freedom

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[Singing Chorus]

Everybody knows that they're guilty

Everybody knows that they've lied

Everybody knows that they're guilty

Resting on their conscience eating their inside

It's freedom, said it's freedom time now

It's freedom, said it's freedom time now

Time to get free, oh give yourselves up now

It's freedom, said it's freedom time

[First and only verse]

Yo, there's a war in the mind, over territory

For the dominion

Who will dominate the opinion

Skisms and isms, keepin' us in forms of religion

Conformin' our vision

To the world churches decision

Trapped in a section

Submitted to committee election

Moral infection

Epedemic lies and deception

Insurrection

Of the highest possible order

Destortin' our tape recorders

From here and like under water

Beyond the borders

Fond of sin and disorder

Bound by the strategy

It's systematic deprivaty

Heavy as gravity

Head first in the cavity

Without a bottom

A fate worse than Sodom

What's got 'em

Drunk of the spirits

Truth comes, we can't hear it

When you've been, programmed to fear it

I had a vision

I was fallin' in indescision

Apollin', callin' religion

Some program on television

How can dominant wisdom

Be recognized in the system

Of Anti-Christ, the majority rules

Intelligent fools

PhD's in illusion

Masters of mass confusion

Bachelors in past illusion

Now who you choosin'

The head or the tail

The bloodshed of male

Or confidance in the veil

Conferences of Yale

Discussin' doctrines of Baal

Causin' people to fail

Keepin' the third in jail

His word has nailed

Everything to the tree

Severing all of me from all that I used to be

Formless and void

Totally paranoid

Enjoy darkness as the Lord

Keepin' me from the sword

Blocked from mercy

Bitter than cerasee

Hungry and thirsty

For good meat we would eat

And still, dined at the table of deceit

How incomplete

From confrontation to retreat

We prolong the true enemies defeat

Destitute a necessity

Causin' desperation to get the best of me

Punishment 'til there was nothing left of me

Realizin' the unescapable death of me

No options in the valley of decision

The only doctrine, supernatural circumcision

Inwardly only water can purge the heart

From words, the fiery darts

Thrown by the workers of the arts

Iniquity, shapen in

There's no escapin' when

You're whole philosophy is paper thin

In vanity

The wide road is insanity

Could it be all of humanity?

Picture that

Scripture that

The origin of man's heart is black

How can we show up for

An invisible war

Preoccupied with a shadow, makin' love with a whore

Achin' in sores

Babylon, the great mystery

Mother of human history

System of social sorcery

Our present condition

Needs serious recognition

Where there's no repentance there can be no remission

And that sentence, more serious than Vietnam

The atom bomb, and Saddam, and Minister Farakkhan

What's goin' on, what's the priority to you

by what authority do we do

the majority hasn't a clue

We majored in curses

Search the chapters, check the verses

Recapture the land

Remove the mark from off of our hands

So we can stand

In agreement with his command

Everything else is damned

Let them with ears understand

Everything else is damned, let them with ears understand

[Singing Chorus]

It's freedom, said it's freedom time now

It's freedom, said it's freedom time now

It's freedom, I'ma be who I am

It's freedom time, said it's freedom time

Everybody knows that they've lied

Everybody knows that they've perpetrated inside

Everybody knows that they're guilty, yes

Resting on their conscience eating their insides

Get free, be who you're suppost to be

Freedom, said it's freedom time now

Freedom, said it's freedom time

Freedom, freedom time now