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A Song for Assata
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(Common)
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In the Spirit of God.
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In the Spirit of the Ancestors.
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In the Spirit of the Black Panthers.
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In the Spirit of Assata Shakur.
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We make this movement towards freedom
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for all those who have been oppressed, and all those in the struggle.
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Yeah. yo, check it-
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There were lights and sirens, gunshots firin
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Cover your eyes as I describe a scene so violent
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Seemed like a bad dream, she laid in a blood puddle
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Blood bubbled in her chest, cold air brushed against open flesh
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No room to rest, pain consumed each breath
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Shot twice wit her hands up
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Police questioned but shot before she answered
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One Panther lost his life, the other ran for his
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Scandalous the police were as they kicked and beat her
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Comprehension she was beyond, tryna hold on
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to life. She thought she'd live with no arm
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that's what it felt like, got to the hospital, eyes held tight
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They moved her room to room-she could tell by the light
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Handcuffed tight to the bed, through her skin it bit
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Put guns to her head, every word she got hit
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"Who shot the trooper?" they asked her
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Put mace in her eyes, threatened to blast her
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Her mind raced till things got still
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Opened her eyes, realized she's next to her best friend who got killed
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She got chills, they told her: that's where she would be next
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Hurt mixed wit anger-survival was a reflex
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They lied and denied visits from her lawyer
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But she was buildin as they tried to destroy her
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If it wasn't for this german nurse they woulda served her worse
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I read this sister's story, knew that it deserved a verse
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I wonder what would happen if that woulda been me?
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All this shit so we could be free, so dig it, y'all.
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(Cee-lo vocals)
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I'm thinkin' of Assata, yes.
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Listen to my Love, Assata, yes.
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Your Power and Pride is beautiful.
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May God bless your Soul.
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(Common)
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It seemed like the middle of the night when the law awakened her
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Walkie-talkies cracklin, I see 'em when they takin her
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Though she kinda knew,
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What made the ride peaceful was the trees and the sky was blue
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Arrived to Middlesex Prison about six inna morning
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Uneasy as they pushed her to the second floor in
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a cell, one cot, no window, facing hell.
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Put in the basement of a prison wit all males
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And the smell of misery, seatless toilets and centipedes
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She'd exercise, (paint?,) and begin to read
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Two years inna hole. Her soul grew weak
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Away from people so long she forgot how to speak
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She discovered frredom is a unspoken sound
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And a wall is a wall and can be broken down
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Found peace in the Panthers she went on trial with
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One of the brothers she had a child with
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The foulness they would feed her, hopin she's lose her seed
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Held tight, knowing the fight would live through this seed
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In need of a doctor, from her stomach she's bleed
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Out of this situation a girl was conceived
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Separated from her, left to mother the Revolution
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And lactated to attack hate
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Cause federal and state was built for a Black fate
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Her emptiness was filled with beatings and court dates
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They fabricated cases, hoping one would stick
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And said she robbed places that didn't exist
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In the midst of threats on her life and being caged with Aryan whites
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Through dark halls of hate she carried the light
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I wonder what would happen if that woulda been me?
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All of this shit so we could be free.
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Yeah, I often wonder what would happen if that woulda been me?
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All of this shit so we could be free, so dig it, people-
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(Cee-Lo)
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I'm thinkin' of Assata, yeah.
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Listen to my Love, Assata, yeah.
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Your Power and Pride, so Beautiful...
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May God bless your Soul.
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Oooh.
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(Common)
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Yo
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From North Carolina her grandmother would bring
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news that she had had a dream
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Her dreams always meant what they needed them to mean
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What made them real was the action in between
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She dreamt that Assata was free in they old house in Queens
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The fact that they always came true was the thing
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Assata had been convicted of a murder she couldna done
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Medical evidence shown she couldna shot the gun
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It's time for her to see the sun from the other side
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Time for her daughter to be by her mother's side
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Time for this Beautiful Woman to become soft again
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Time for her to breathe, and not be told how or when
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She untangled the chains and escaped the pain
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How she broke out of prison I could never explain
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And even to this day they try to get to her
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but she's free with political asylum in Cuba.
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(Cee-Lo vocals)
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I'm thinkin' of Assata, yeah.
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Listen to my Love, Assata, yeah.
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We're molded from the same mud, Assata.
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We share the same Blood, Assata, yeah.
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Your Power and Pride, so Beautiful...
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May God bless your Soul.
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Your Power and Pride, so Beautiful...
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May God bless your Soul.
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Oooh.
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(Assata)
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Freedom! You askin me about freedom. Askin me about freedom?
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I'll be honest with you. I know a whole more about what freedom isn't
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than about what it is, cause I've never been free.
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I can only share my vision with you of the future, about what freedom is.
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Uhh, the way I see it, freedom is-- is the right to grow, is the right to
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blossom.
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Freedom is -is the right to be yourself, to be who you are,
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to be who you wanna be, to do what you wanna do. (fade out)
A Song For Assata
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