when a black man can't walk certain streets

without being hassaled by the pigs

when the youth are forced into the school system

designed to break the will of the kids

when you don't feel safe walking the streets

of your own fucking hometown

just cause you look different

people always try to push you around



so this is freedom



live in a capatalist system that says

you gotta work just to survive

but when you're stuck in a dead end job

are you really alive?

then they tax us on what we earn

to pay for their fucking wars

the cold war, war on drugs

the secret war out on the poor



go to school, learn to trade, do as i say you better behave

if this is freedom how come i feel like a fucking slave?