They killed my little bro Thomas yesterday

And when you colored you don't really look to the law to investigate

You just get the drop slide on the ops and replicate the same cycle

Now you made rivals

And you wonder why we remain spiteful

I'ma tell you how the government truly put us in this position

They only give assistance under one condition

You gotta make sure that the daddy is missing

They lower commissions, raise up the rent and then hand out evictions

Soon as they put drugs in the hood they took away the love in the hood

You see, it's bad enough when we see cops that gotta frisk and smoke

But then we hear stupid s**t like

"You know black people kill each other the most"

As if it ain't human nature to kill or attack whatever is close

Whatever comes with a negative approach

It's another way to put a rope on our throats

It's amazed that we lost in, think about what we got tossed in

A prisoner couldn't kill a king and lions don't murder dolphins (never)

You can't kill who you don't see

In other words forcing us in the ghetto

Was part of plot to put us against eachother

Until we rot but we all that we got, yuh

They threw us in the slums and took our dreams

Replaced them with a gun it's all a scheme

Then locked us in a box I hear your screams

Caged bird I gotta let you sing

Caged bird, I gotta let you

Caged bird, I gotta let you sing

Caged bird, I gotta let you (yuh)

Caged bird, I gotta let you sing (yuh)

Flew away and got my dreams, had to find my peace

Moving cautious everywhere soldiers are falling like the leaves

Block is calling, forcing my movements to be all I can be

I meditate, it's crazy I'm recently learning how to breath

Tension always building, we pensive they just be by my complexion

I own my shit, I don't rent it

I tell them talk to me nice

Fuck that, talk to us nice

They beat us over our backs

But we still walking upright

And now it's time to fly away now

They threw us in the slums and took our dreams

Replaced them with a gun, it's all a scheme

Then locked us in a box I hear your screams

Caged bird, I gotta let you sing

Caged bird, I gotta let you

Caged bird, I gotta let you sing

Caged bird, I gotta let you

Caged bird, I gotta let you sing

Fly away

Fly away

Fly away

Fly away

Fly away

Fly away

Fly away

Fly away

Fly away

Fly away (yuh)

Fly away, oh

Fly away, oh

Not my problem, when my work is over

I will fly away

(What?) Yo gimme that

Oh my god

There be no love letter passing in my classroom