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Caged Bird
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J. Cole
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[Intro: J. Cole]
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Yeah, caged bird
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Something like a caged bird
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Caged bird
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Yeah, look
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[Verse 1: J. Cole]
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You ain't a man till you stop chasing your friends, my nigga
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Think for yourself, make your own plans, my nigga
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I'll be lying if I said I ain't understand, my nigga
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Cause who you gon' follow when the leaders all get swallowed
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By reefer clouds and bottles
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In and out of county jail
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This is hell, see the young black males in packed cells
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With they heads down
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And they fists clenched tight
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Thinking "I could bust a hole through this wall
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And bitch I just might"
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It's just like the caged bird I sing a song
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Hoping they open up these bars and send a nigga home
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I cry when I'm alone
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I'm wondering why would God send me here
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Knowing that they hate us
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Knowing that they make us feel like we evil so we kill our people
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Without a second thought, in every lesson taught by OGs
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We full of real nigga wisdom, so we proceed
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Like real niggas who been stripped of our humanity
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I see the judge's eyes, I know that he ain't understanding me
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[Hook: J. Cole]
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A caged bird (Yeah, a caged bird)
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(Let this little caged bird sing) Caged bird
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Yeah, caged bird
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Freedom's just an illusion, that's my conclusion
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And if it ain't, then how my niggas keep on losin' theirs?
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This goes out to childhood friends that's doin' years
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Prison tats on they backs like souvenirs
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We wish that you was here
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A mother's tear spilled on this page
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A brother's tear spilled on this page
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How many days left?
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And can you find peace when you released
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Still filled up wit' rage
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Back on the streets just to peep that you still in the cage
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[Verse 2: Omen]
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Well, it's the oratory vet
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Turned down king slash poet laureate
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Used to paint a picture with a story of neglect
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I could've been a shorty drinking 40s on the steps
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With a shorty on my lap
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With a shorty on the way coming shortly to protect
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I could've been a dealer in the party with the X
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But I'm hardly in the mix and I partially confess
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I definitely got a couple parts in me that I regret
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Is the cup half-empty or is it half-full?
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I fill mine up with Hennessy, then get back to him
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I'm just a jazz musician trapped in a rap form
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You think you standing for something you on a trap door
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Well it's the, Mr. Introspective
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I'm a dreamers dream, a sort of an inception
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I never fiend for the scene but I dreamed of the things
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That a Mercedes brings, like slow sex with fast women
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Drinking cognac I'm past grinning
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A sexy dress, fat ass in it
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But still hit it till I'm half-winded
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Cause niggas tell me I'm the shit
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Well I be hitting all these dimes
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See I'm caged by the visions of the blind
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I started as a king
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Turned to a slave
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Put us in our chains
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We was forced to entertain
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Thinking bout the present day I'm living off the stage
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Wonder if a nigga ever get up out this cage
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As I sing
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