[00:00:00] Let Freedom Reign - Chrisette Michele (克里斯蒂·米歇尔) [00:00:06] Oh American citizen come collect your freedom [00:00:11] No matter what you're living in no more giving in [00:00:17] Oh American citizen come collect your freedom [00:00:22] No matter what you're living in it's time to win [00:00:27] Keep us in the four walls of our church we'll be quiet [00:00:29] Most of us aren't even Democratic or Republic [00:00:32] Can and by coincidence we love the elected [00:00:35] Until the detected of being human [00:00:38] American falls minorities lose war [00:00:40] But if we unite we would have won the war [00:00:43] On poverty war on drugs [00:00:45] War on medicate war on love [00:00:48] Freedom isn't given it is taken [00:00:50] Freedom isn't free it's earned [00:00:52] Not no it's learned [00:00:53] Been hung and burned [00:00:54] Yet rest in peace resurrected plea [00:00:58] This ain't black or white it's gray [00:01:00] This is not about my face [00:01:03] Most of us don't know what to say [00:01:06] Right from wrong or free from slaves [00:01:09] Let freedom reign [00:01:13] Do you wanna be free or do you wanna go down [00:01:15] I wanna be I wanna be I wanna be free [00:01:20] Let freedom reign [00:01:23] Do you wanna be free or do you wanna go down [00:01:25] I wanna be I wanna be I wanna be free [00:01:31] America the beautiful suspect as usual [00:01:33] Liberty and death give me freedom on my funeral [00:01:36] I walk across the planet with the steps of a giant [00:01:38] My rhymes bridge the gap between religion and science [00:01:41] 'Cause my evidence is spiritual [00:01:43] I know my sheer presence is a miracle [00:01:45] I wasn't supposed to be here to share with you [00:01:47] But here I am standing with my chest out [00:01:48] I take my place in history I never get left out [00:01:51] You stressed out and scared [00:01:53] So it's causing you to act hard [00:01:54] Freedom ain't free gotta put it on my black card [00:01:56] My passport claim I'm an American citizen [00:01:59] The constitution said I'm three fifths [00:02:01] I'm not a semi and gorilla [00:02:02] Make my songs stronger than the horn of Gideon [00:02:05] Truth is [00:02:05] Gave the native people syphilis [00:02:07] Consider this Christopher Columbus [00:02:09] Ain't know where he was goin' [00:02:11] So let's stop calling our native brothers Indians [00:02:13] Let freedom reign [00:02:16] Do you wanna be free or do you wanna go down [00:02:19] I wanna be I wanna be I wanna be free [00:02:24] Let freedom reign [00:02:27] Do you wanna be free or do you wanna go down [00:02:29] I wanna be I wanna be I wanna be free [00:02:35] We were carried here in shackles from the homelands [00:02:37] Broom chop chain locked brain washed programmed [00:02:40] Time's change freedom reigns I'm a grown man [00:02:43] Holding the future in the palms of my own hands [00:02:45] In this world the coonery and tomfoolery [00:02:47] All I'm trying to do is stay true to my community [00:02:51] The daily news ain't the only thing that's schooling me [00:02:53] Watching these haters operating with impunity [00:02:56] This journey dollar signs black and white collar crimes [00:02:59] Running out of time out of sight out of mind [00:03:01] It gets realer and it's real in Palestine [00:03:04] Troubles of the world start to seem intertwined [00:03:07] War criminals conflict minerals [00:03:09] Pillagers are coming home five star generals [00:03:12] Telling lies in press conferences and interviews [00:03:15] I'm trying to take back the power [00:03:16] 'Cause it's been abused [00:03:17] Let freedom reign [00:03:21] Do you wanna be free or do you wanna go down [00:03:23] I wanna be I wanna be I wanna be free [00:03:28] Let freedom reign [00:03:32] Do you wanna be free or do you wanna go down [00:03:34] I wanna be I wanna be I wanna be free [00:03:39] I'm just black in America [00:03:41] I'm not Afro-American [00:03:42] Just a passive American [00:03:44] Making belief I'm better than [00:03:47] What we've been what we've been