Luyện nghe bài hát A Song for Assata

(Common)
In the of God.
In the of the Ancestors.
In the of the Black Panthers.
In the Spirit of Shakur.
We this movement towards freedom
for all who have been oppressed, and all those in the struggle.
Yeah. yo, it-

There were lights and sirens, firin
Cover your eyes as I describe a so violent
Seemed a bad dream, she laid in a blood puddle
Blood bubbled in her chest, cold air against open flesh
No room to rest, consumed each breath
Shot twice wit her up
Police questioned but before she answered
One lost his life, the other ran for his
Scandalous the were as they kicked and beat her
Comprehension she was beyond, tryna on
to life. She thought live with no arm
that's what it felt like, got to the hospital, held tight
They moved her room to room-she could tell by the
Handcuffed tight to the bed, through her it bit
Put guns to her head, word she got hit
"Who shot the trooper?" they her
Put mace in her eyes, threatened to her
Her raced till things got still
Opened her eyes, she's next to her best friend who got killed
She got chills, they told her: where she would be next
Hurt mixed wit anger-survival was a
They lied and visits from her lawyer
But she was as they tried to destroy her
If it wasn't for german nurse they woulda served her worse
I read sister's story, knew that it deserved a verse
I wonder what would happen if that woulda me?
All this so we could be free, so dig it, y'all.

(Cee-lo vocals)
I'm of Assata, yes.
to my Love, Assata, yes.
Your Power and is beautiful.
May God bless Soul.

(Common)
It like the middle of the night when the law awakened her
Walkie-talkies cracklin, I see 'em when they her
Though she knew,
What made the peaceful was the trees and the sky was blue
Arrived to Prison about six inna morning
as they pushed her to the second floor in
a cell, one cot, no window, hell.
Put in the of a prison wit all males
And the smell of misery, seatless toilets and
exercise, (paint?,) and begin to read
Two years inna hole. Her grew weak
Away people so long she forgot how to speak
She discovered frredom is a sound
And a is a wall and can be broken down
Found peace in the she went on trial with
One of the she had a child with
The foulness they would feed her, she's lose her seed
Held tight, the fight would live through this seed
In need of a doctor, from her she's bleed
Out of this a girl was conceived
Separated from her, left to the Revolution
And lactated to attack
Cause federal and state was built for a Black
Her was filled with beatings and court dates
They fabricated cases, one would stick
And said she robbed places that exist
In the midst of on her life and being caged with Aryan whites
Through dark of hate she carried the light
I wonder what happen if that woulda been me?
All of this shit so we be free.
Yeah, I often what would happen if that woulda been me?
All of this shit so we could be free, so dig it,

(Cee-Lo)
I'm of Assata, yeah.
to my Love, Assata, yeah.
Your and Pride, so Beautiful...
May God your Soul.
Oooh.

(Common)
Yo
North Carolina her grandmother would bring
news that she had had a
Her dreams always meant they needed them to mean
What made them real was the action in
She that Assata was free in they old house in Queens
The that they always came true was the thing
Assata had been of a murder she couldna done
Medical evidence shown she couldna the gun
It's for her to see the sun from the other side
Time for her daughter to be by her mother's
Time for this Beautiful Woman to become again
for her to breathe, and not be told how or when
She untangled the chains and escaped the
How she out of prison I could never explain
And to this day they try to get to her
but free with political asylum in Cuba.

(Cee-Lo vocals)
I'm of Assata, yeah.
to my Love, Assata, yeah.
We're molded the same mud, Assata.
We the same Blood, Assata, yeah.
Power and Pride, so Beautiful...
May God your Soul.
Your and Pride, so Beautiful...
May God bless Soul.
Oooh.

(Assata)
Freedom! You askin me about freedom. Askin me about
I'll be honest with you. I a whole more about what freedom isn't
than about what it is, cause I've been free.
I can only my vision with you of the future, about what freedom is.
Uhh, the way I see it, freedom is the right to grow, is the right to
blossom.
Freedom is -is the to be yourself, to be who you are,
to be who you wanna be, to do what you do. (fade out)