Look ma mi nah weep
I just woke up from the long deep
Why it looks like everybody gone asleep
Can’t even bother going out to peep
I was told about these golden rules to keep
Now it’s hustle hustle hustle creep
Why do my eyes show me the hill look steep
When I heard it was all for me
Oh what should I feel
Eyes wide open and this is what I see
Long years now I’ve been fed on masculinity
All of a sudden I am told for her I have to have purity
Oh world oh world you are confusing me
Because that same woman come creeping up to say
yo, my youth, come talk dirt and let’s go back to sleep
How in the world are you going to condemn me
When that same one who cried for equality
Instead of correcting me is out there defaming me
I even hear you talking to yo niggas
And when I talk to my niggas
And I think it’s cool, I dig it
But when I talk to my niggas you get offended at me
And telling me we all have freedom of speech
Have the nerve to get mad when I disagree with your hypocrisy
Mad world, damn world, man you full out confusing me
I hear some shouting about freedom, yeah
But they mentally slaving and trying to keep good ones from rising
So my simple question
Why are you trying to keep from from living
When you can’t even understand you’re trying to keep me from freedom
Because the freedom you’re trying to sell me isn’t
I peep it, I am starting to understand it
And deep down in my soul are the tears I now weep
Because I am beginning to see how your end will be steep
Unless you reverse and repent and come out to meet
But you don’t at all want that
All you want to do is front
Pretend for the new age communication and them
But until you realize I’ll have to keep moving
Forward ever forward to this dance I’m dancing
Because the beat speaks knowledge to power and wisdom
Life to the listeners, but careful how you listen
Because this dance has a certain life giving rhythm
And freedom, and freedom a life set free in this freedom
Can never be shaken or brought back to your darkened wellspring