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Lauryn Hill - MTV Unplugged - Freedom Time Lauryn Hill - MTV Unplugged - Freedom Time |
| 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, yo
There's a war in the mind, over territory
For the dominion
Who will dominate the opinion
Schisms and -isms
Keepin' us in forms of religion
Conformin' our vision
To the world church's decision
Trapped in a section
Submitted to committee election
Moral infection
Epedemic lies and deception
Insurrection of the highest possible order
Distorting our tape recorders
From hearin' like under water
Beyond the borders
Fond of sin and disorder
Bound by the strategy
It's systemic depravity
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 falling in indecision
Appaling, calling religion
Some program on television
How could dominant wisdom
Be recognized in a system
Of antichrists and majority rules
Intelligent fools
PhDs in illusion
Masters of mass confusion
Bachelors of past delusion
Now who you choosin'
The head of the tail
The bloodshed of the male
Or confidence in the veil
Conferences at Yale
Discussing doctrines of Baal
Causing people to fail
Keeping the third in jail
His world has nailed
Everything to the tree
Severing all of me from all that I used to be
Formless and void
Totally paranoid
Enjoyed darkness as Lord
Keeping me from the sword
Blocked from mercy
Bitter than cerasee
Hungry and thirsty
For good meat we would eat
And still dine at the table of deceit
How incomplete
From confrontation to retreat
We prolonged the true enemies' defeat
Destitute of necessity
Causing desperation to get the best of me
Punishment till there was nothing left of me
Realizing 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 escaping when
Your whole philosophy is paper thin
In vanity
The wide road is insanity
Could it be all off 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
Making live with a whore
Aching in sores
Babylon the great mystery
Mother of human history
System of social sorcery
Our present condition
Needs serious recognition
Where there's no repentence there can be no remission
And that sentence more serious than Vietnam
The atom bomb, and Saddam, and Minister Farrakhan
What's goin' on?
What's a priority to you?
By what athority do we do
The majority hasn't a clue
We've majored in curses
Search the chapters
Check the verves
Recapture the land
Remove the mark from off 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
It's freedom, said it's freedom time now
It's freedom, said it's freedom time now
It's freedom, I'm a 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 your supposed to be
Freedom, said it's freedom time now
Freedom, said it's freedom time
Freedom, freedom time now |
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