(VERSE 1)

What's freedom?
When You ain't gotta fight for yo rights
you skin color don't define yo life
and what you choose as a religion
won't determine if you make that flight
yo gender not being a factor
just to get paid right
Or should I say fair?
Not denied that job
because yo hair
aint the texture or the style that they re-vare (revere)
oops my bad, hopefully it aint yo dialect
or broken language that results from yo experience
listen, see freedoms when you benefit from the system
and yo like of finances don't let you become its victim
Kalief I'm sorry
I hope you know yo pain was not in vein
A true hero the world you forever changed
and shed light on what this place is like
land of the free, home of the brave
how we ain't getting it right?
See it's a broken system when veterans you forget em
And the ones who built this country
You dismiss em and convict em
That ain't freedom.

(CHORUS)

Said I just wanna be free
I just wanna be free
Been on this road so long
but we aint fighting alone
so we gone reach the promise land you'll see
cause we gotta get free

Said I just wanna be free
I just wanna be free
Been on this road so long
but we aint fighting alone
so we gone reach the promise land you'll see
cause we gotta be free


(VERSE 2)

Freedom's
when every woman got the right to choose
leaving yo land for better days
the simple right to move
Freedom
That's when yo vote actually counts
and you ain't missing education because of yo bank account
Freedom
That's walking through the front door
owning you own stores
I'm talking Mound Bayou's, oh yes we need more
Political Power, Political Freedom
The right to love who you want, without the fear of mistreatment
Freedom
That's like walking around in any neighborhood
without the thought of losing yo life
cause you got on a hood
Freedom to challenge what's wrong without persecution
Exile and blacklist from our institutions
Strange fruit still hanging from trees
in many ways so Im hoping that we wake up and see (what?)
A noose to a neck, a bullet to flesh
down to the digits you receive on yo check
It's all to strip away yo freedoms.

(CHORUS)

Said I just wanna be free
I just wanna be free
Been on this road so long
but we aint fighting alone
so we gone reach the promise land you'll see
cause we gotta get free

Said I just wanna be free
I just wanna be free
Been on this road so long
but we aint fighting alone
so we gone reach the promise land you'll see
cause we gotta be free