(feat. Talib Kweli, Black Thought)





[Chrisette Michele]

Oh American citizen, come collect your freedom

No matter what your living in

No more giving in

Oh American citizen, come collect your freedom

No matter what you're living in

It's time to win



Keep us in the four walls of our childrens will be quiet

Most of us aint even democratic or Republic

Can, and by coincidence we love the elected until the detected of being human

American falls, minorities lose war

But if we unite we would have won the war

On poverty

On drugs

On medicated

On love



Freedom isn't given it is taken

Freedom isn't free it's earned

Not, no, it's learned

Been hung and burned,

Yet rest in peace, resurrected plea

This aint black or white, it's grey

This is not about my face

Most of us don't know what to say

Right from wrong, I'm free from slaves



Let freedom reign

Do you wanna be free or do you wanna be

I wanna be, I wanna be, I wanna be

Free,

Let freedom Reign

[repeated]



[Talib Kweli]

America the beautiful

Suspect as usual

Liberty and death give me freedom on my funeral

I walk across the planet with the steps of a giant

My rhymes bridge the gap between religion and science

Cause my evidence is spiritual

I know my sheer presence is a miracle

I wasn't supposed to be here to share with you

But here I am, standing with my chest out

I take my place in history I never get left out

You stressed out and scared so it's causing you to act hard

Freedom aint free, gotta put it on my black card

My passport claim I'm an American citizen

The constitution said I'm three fifths

I'm not a semi and gorrilla

Make my songs stronger than the horn of Gideon

Truth is the ? gave the native people syphillis

Consider this: Christopher Columbus ain't know where he was goin'

So lets stop calling our Native brothers Indians



[Chorus]



[Black Thought]

We were carried here in shackles from the homelands

? chop, chain locked, brain washed, programmed

Time's change, freedom reigns, I'm a grown man

Holding the future in the palms of my own hands

In this World, the coonery and tomfoolery

All I'm trying to do is stay true to my community

The daily news aint the only thing that's schooling me

Watching these haters operating with impunity

This journey dollar signs, black and white collar crimes

Running out of time, out of sight, out of mind

It gets realer and it's real in Palestine

Troubles of the World start to seem intertwined

War criminals, conflict minerals, pillagers are coming home

And five star generals telling lies in press conferences and interviews

I'm trying to take back the power cause it's been abused



[Chorus]



[Chrisette Michele]

I'm just black in America

I'm not afro american

Just a passive american

Making belief I'm better than

What we've been, what we've been

I said

I'm just black in America

I'm not afro american

Just a passive american

Making belief I'm better than

What we've been, what we've been