Common《A Song for Assata》[MP3_LRC]

[00:00.00]90听音乐网 www.90T8.com  [00:03.91]In the Spirit of God [00:06.04]In the Spirit of the Ancestors [00:08.85]In the Spirit of the Black Panthers [00:11.98]In the Spirit of Assata Shakur [00:15.07]We make this movement towards freedom [00:17.38]For all those who have been oppressed and all those in the struggle [00:21.54]Yeah yo check it [00:24.25]There were lights and sirens gunshots firing [00:26.93]Cover your eyes as I describe a scene so violent [00:29.67]Seemed like a bad dream she laid in a blood puddle [00:32.97]Blood bubbled in her chest cold air brushed against open flesh [00:37.13]No room to rest pain consumed each breath [00:40.20]Shot twice with her hands up [00:42.13]Police questioned but shot before she answered [00:44.80]One Panther lost his life the other ran for his [00:47.76]Scandalous the police were as they kicked and beat her [00:50.64]Comprehension she was beyond trying to hold on [00:53.82]To life she thought she'd live with no arm [00:56.17]That's what it felt like got to the hospital eyes held tight [00:59.27]They moved her room to room she could tell by the light [01:01.66]Handcuffed tight to the bed through her skin it bit [01:04.33]Put guns to her head every word she got hit [01:07.00]Who shot the trooper they asked her [01:08.97]Put mace in her eyes threatened to blast her [01:11.49]Her mind raced till things got still [01:14.21]Opened her eyes realized she's next to her best friend who got killed [01:17.75]She got chills they told her that's where she would be next [01:20.72]Hurt mixed wit anger survival was a reflex [01:23.24]They lied and denied visits from her lawyer [01:26.01]But she was building as they tried to destroy her [01:28.46]If it wasn't for this German nurse they would've served her worse [01:31.17]I read this sister's story knew that it deserved a verse [01:33.85]I wonder what would happen if that would've been me [01:36.40]All of this just so we could be free [01:37.99]So dig it y'all [01:42.97]I'm thinking of Assata yes [01:50.98]Listen to my love Assata yes [02:00.27]Your power and pride is beautiful [02:05.63]May God bless your soul [02:10.38]It seemed like the middle of the night when the law awakened her [02:13.91]Walkie-talkies crackling I see them when they're taking her [02:16.62]Though she kind of knew [02:17.78]What made the ride peaceful was the trees and the sky was blue [02:21.23]Arrived to Middlesex Prison about 6 in the morning [02:24.52]Uneasy as they pushed her to the second floor in [02:27.16]A cell one cot no window facing hell [02:30.09]Put in the basement of a prison with all males [02:32.38]And the smell of misery seatless toilets and centipedes [02:35.10]She'd exercise paint and begin to read [02:37.86]Two years in a hole her soul grew weak [02:40.37]Away from people so long she forgot how to speak [02:43.14]She discovered freedom is a unspoken sound [02:45.79]And a wall is a wall and can be broken down [02:48.57]Found peace in the Panthers she went on trial with [02:50.92]One of the brothers she had a child with [02:53.65]The foulness they would feed her hoping she's lose her seed [02:56.53]Held tight knowing the fight would live through this seed [02:59.19]In need of a doctor from her stomach she'd bleed [03:01.78]Out of this situation a girl was conceived [03:04.56]Separated from her left to mother the Revolution [03:08.02]And lactated to attack hate [03:09.78]'Cause federal and state was built for a Black fate [03:12.34]Her emptiness was filled with beatings and court dates [03:15.14]They fabricated cases hoping one would stick [03:17.83]And said she robbed places that didn't exist [03:20.21]In the midst of threats on her life and being caged with Aryan whites [03:23.26]Through dark halls of hate she carried the light [03:25.80]I wonder what would happen if that would've been me [03:28.30]All of this just so we could be free [03:30.22]Yeah I often wonder what would happen if that would've been me [03:33.60]All of this just so we could be free [03:35.22]So dig it people [03:36.42]I'm thinking of Assata yes [03:41.62]Listen to my love Assata yes [03:46.59]Your power and pride is beautiful [03:52.30]May God bless your soul [04:17.69]Yo from North Carolina her grandmother would bring [04:21.92]News that she had had a dream [04:23.91]Her dreams always meant what they needed them to mean [04:26.57]What made them real was the action in between [04:29.19]She dreamt that Assata was free in their old house in Queens [04:32.59]The fact that they always came true was the thing [04:35.28]Assata had been convicted of a murder she couldn't've done [04:37.53]Medical evidence shown she couldn't have shot the gun [04:40.48]It's time for her to see the sun from the other side [04:43.19]Time for her daughter to be by her mother's side [04:45.56]Time for this beautiful woman to become soft again [04:48.39]Time for her to breathe and not be told how or when [04:51.12]She untangled the chains and escaped the pain [04:53.76]How she broke out of prison I could never explain [04:56.43]And even to this day they try to get to her [04:58.84]But she's free with political asylum in Cuba [05:04.28]I'm thinking of Assata yeah [05:07.01]Listen to my love Assata yeah [05:09.93]We're molded from the same mud Assata [05:17.27]We share the same blood Assata yeah [05:22.71]Your power and pride so beautiful [05:28.26]May God bless your soul [05:33.37]Your power and pride so beautiful [05:37.07]May God bless your soul [05:38.94]Freedom You're asking me about freedom You're asking me about freedom I'll be honest with you I know a whole more about what freedom isn't than about what it is because I've never been free I can only share my vision with you of the future about what freedom is