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 make this towards freedom
for all those who have been oppressed, and all in the struggle.
Yeah. yo, it-

There were lights and sirens, gunshots
Cover your eyes as I describe a so violent
Seemed like a bad dream, she laid in a puddle
Blood bubbled in her chest, cold air brushed against flesh
No room to rest, pain each breath
Shot twice wit her up
questioned but shot before she answered
One Panther lost his life, the ran for his
Scandalous the were as they kicked and beat her
she was beyond, tryna hold on
to life. She she'd live with no arm
that's it felt like, got to the hospital, eyes held tight
They moved her room to room-she tell by the light
tight to the bed, through her skin it bit
Put guns to her head, word she got hit
"Who the trooper?" they asked her
Put in her eyes, threatened to blast her
Her mind raced till things got
Opened her eyes, realized she's next to her best friend who got
She got chills, they told her: that's where she be next
mixed wit anger-survival was a reflex
They lied and denied from her lawyer
But she was buildin as they to destroy her
If it wasn't for this german they woulda served her worse
I read this sister's story, 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 your Soul.

(Common)
It seemed like the middle of the night when the law her
Walkie-talkies cracklin, I see 'em when they her
she kinda knew,
What made the peaceful was the trees and the sky was blue
Arrived to Middlesex Prison six inna morning
Uneasy as they pushed her to the second in
a cell, one cot, no window, hell.
Put in the basement of a wit all males
And the smell of misery, seatless and centipedes
She'd exercise, (paint?,) and begin to
Two years inna hole. Her soul weak
Away from people so she forgot how to speak
She discovered frredom is a unspoken
And a wall is a wall and can be broken
Found peace in the she went on trial with
One of the she had a child with
The foulness they would feed her, hopin she's her seed
tight, knowing the fight would live through this seed
In need of a doctor, from her stomach she's
Out of this situation a girl was
Separated from her, left to the Revolution
And lactated to hate
Cause federal and was built for a Black fate
Her emptiness was filled with beatings and dates
They fabricated cases, hoping one stick
And said she places that didn't exist
In the midst of on her life and being caged with Aryan whites
Through dark halls of she carried the light
I wonder what happen if that woulda been me?
All of this shit so we be free.
Yeah, I often wonder what would happen if that been me?
All of shit so we could be free, so dig it, people-

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

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

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

(Assata)
Freedom! You askin me about freedom. me about freedom?
I'll be honest with you. I a whole more about what freedom isn't
than about what it is, cause I've never free.
I can share 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.
is -is the right to be yourself, to be who you are,
to be who you wanna be, to do what you do. (fade out)