[ Daddy-O ]

If I gotta die to be free

Then I guess it gotta be

Cause I never been a sucker, see?

I can't stand for a man tryin to hold me down

Then again I've never been a clown

Countdown (Freedom or death)

'88, and everything ain't well (Freedom or death)

Prepare for a war and war is hell (Freedom or death)

And if you think about coppin a plea (Freedom or death)

Don't even waste your breath (Freedom or death)

Cause this time it's freedom or death (Freedom or death)



Conceptually to be free means

To do what I please, but please

Cause even overseas in my native country

I still get robbed and raped in the face

For gold and all (Freedom or death)

My people are poor (Freedom or death)

For the sake of a thrill (Freedom or death)

My people get killed (Freedom or death)

And we'll be killed till there's nobody left (Freedom or death)

Unless we understand it's freedom or death (Freedom or death)



It only takes one side to declare war



And if the other side ignores

They get mapped, or should I say off the map

Like a stain's washed out in a laundromat

Wartime, brother, wartime, sister (Freedom or death)

We can't wait because they won't wait (Freedom or death)

And we've been through so much shit to date (Freedom or death)

That we're losin this war and I hate (Freedom or death)



To say that, but it's true, so I say to you

You better learn to defend yourself

Right hand and left

In the east and west

Time for war, freedom or death

If I gotta die to be free 

Then I guess it gotta be

Cause I never been a sucker, see?

I can't stand for a man tryin to hold me down

Then again, I've never been a clown

Countdown (Freedom or death)

'88, and everything ain't well (Freedom or death)

Prepare for a war and war is hell (Freedom or death)

And if you think about coppin a plea (Freedom or death)

Don't even waste your breath (Freedom or death)

Cause this time it's freedom or death (Freedom or death)