Luyện nghe bài hát A Song for Assata

In the of God
In the Spirit of the
In the Spirit of the Panthers
In the Spirit of Shakur
We make this movement towards
For all those who have been oppressed, and all in the struggle
Yeah, yo, it

There were and sirens, gunshots firing
Cover your eyes as I describe a scene so
Seemed a bad dream, she laid in a blood puddle
Blood bubbled in her chest, cold air against open flesh
No room to rest, pain consumed each
Shot wit her hands up
questioned but shot before she answered
One lost his life, the other ran for his
Scandalous the police as they kicked and beat her
Comprehension she was beyond, to hold on
To life. She she'd live with no arm
That's it felt like, got to the hospital, eyes held tight
They her room to room-she could tell by the light
Handcuffed tight to the bed, her skin it bit
Put guns to her head, word she got hit
"Who the trooper?" they asked her
Put mace in her eyes, threatened to her
Her mind raced till things got
Opened her eyes, realized she's next to her best who got killed
She got chills, they told her, that's she would be next
mixed wit anger-survival was a reflex
They lied and denied visits from her
But she was building as they to destroy her
If it wasn't for German nurse they would of served her worse
I read this sister's story, that it deserved a verse
I wonder would happen if that would of been me?
All this so we could be free, so dig it, y'all

I'm of Assata, yes
to my Love, Assata, yes
Your Power and Pride is
May God bless your

It seemed like the middle of the night the law awakened her
Walkie-talkies crackling, I see 'em when taking her
Though she knew,
What made the ride peaceful was the trees and the sky was
Arrived to Middle-sex Prison about six morning
Uneasy as they pushed her to the floor in
A cell, one cot, no window, hell.
Put in the of a prison wit all males
And the smell of misery, toilets and centipedes
She'd exercise, (paint?,) and to read
Two years in a hole. Her soul weak
Away from people so long she how to speak
She discovered freedom is a sound
And a is a wall and can be broken down
Found peace in the Panthers she went on with
One of the brothers she had a with
The foulness they would feed her, she's lose her seed
Held tight, knowing the would live through this seed
In need of a doctor, from her she's bleed
Out of this situation a girl was
Separated from her, left to mother the
And lactated to hate
Cause federal and was built for a Black fate
Her emptiness was filled with and court dates
They fabricated cases, one would stick
And said she robbed places that didn't
In the midst of threats on her life and caged with Aryan whites
Through dark halls of hate she carried the
I wonder would happen if that would of been me?
All of this shit so we be free.
Yeah, I often wonder would happen if that would f been me?
All of this so we could be free, so dig it, people

I'm of Assata, yes
to my Love, Assata, yes
Your Power and Pride is
May God bless your

Yo
From North Carolina her would bring
that she had had a dream
Her dreams meant what they needed them to mean
What made them was the action in between
She dreamt Assata was free in they old house in Queens
The that they always came true was the thing
had been convicted 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 daughter to be by her side
Time for this Beautiful Woman to become again
Time for her to breathe, and not be how or when
She the chains and escaped the pain
How she broke out of prison I could never
And to this day they try to get to her
But she's free political asylum in Cuba.

I'm of Assata, yeah
to my Love, Assata, yeah
We're molded from the same mud,
We share the Blood, Assata, yeah
Your power and pride, so
May God bless your
power and pride, so beautiful
May God bless soul

Freedom! You me about freedom
me about freedom?
I'll be honest you
I know a whole more about freedom isn't
Than about what it is, cause I've been free
I can only share my vision you of the future
what freedom is
Uh, the way I see it
Freedom is, is the right to grow, is the right to
Freedom is is the to be yourself, to be who you are
To be who you want to be, to do you want to do