[Verse 1: Mike GLC]
To say I'm one of the best, that's an understatement
But I guess they won't see it until I'm on the pavement
And i'll you you the truth, I ain't gripped my gun for ages
I don't need to 'cos I know these youngers are raging
I've been through many different life changes, many different stages
Flip many pages, by the time you saw Letter To My Girlfriend;
I'd already faced life and seen my world end
I'd already chanced it once and got back life
I'd already rocked the Cartier's with the black ice
I was evil from nineteen
Looking at the picture see the evil in my team
The way we put people in their place
... shoot people in their face

But now it's freedom that I'm fighting for
It's probably the only reason I'm still writing for

[Hook: Renee Soul]

You can put me in chase but you can't take my freedom (freedom)
My freedom's the state of my mind
Can anybody believe the cage we live in is free?!
You can put me in a case but you can't take my freedom (freedom)
My freedom's the state of my mind
You can't take my right to life
[Verse 2: Cerose]
The revolution won't be televised
Let it be proven that the holy words are not a lie
Moving cautious because these paigons wanna see me die
Beat me down, break my wings because they dont want to see me fly
I'm losing hope in my own kind
And you can have your little jokes for a small time
Ha, I shed a tear from these stoned eyes
My soul cries for the lives of controlled minds
And my solutions now streaming
Premonitious so I write what I'm dreaming
Revelation told me that I'm gonna see him
And they'll persecute me for the God that I believe in.
Bobbing and weaving like a fighter
I'm never leaving - like a lifer
They decided you lot non-the-wiser
And that what made me be a freedom writer

[Hook: Renee Soul]

You can put me in chase but you can't take my freedom (freedom)
My freedom's the state of my mind
Can anybody believe the cage we live in is free?!
You can put me in a case but you can't take my freedom (freedom)
My freedom's the state of my mind
You can't take my right to life
[Verse 3: Logic]
Look, I am the reincarnation of Steve Biko
Nothing that I write is for myself
This is for my people
If I could, I'd make all the money shared equal
Reparations, By any means necessary; isn't just a phrase
This is how I'm living day to day
See I studied how the angels pray
So I deliver in a similar way
I'm battling the devil through my pages
It's the only way he hears what I say

I still carry my slave name I hold it sacred
'Cos it makes me living proof of how my people made it
Never reach for famous, I deserve my recognition
Certain man become freer when they stuck in prison
It's deeper than the chains we were given
Deeper than Nostradamus visions were polluted by the 'isms'
Paralysed in the devils system, so
I always use my pen to give free wisdom
I hope you listen

[Hook: Renee Soul]

You can put me in chase but you can't take my freedom (freedom)
My freedom's the state of my mind
Can anybody believe the cage we live in is free?!
You can put me in a case but you can't take my freedom (freedom)
My freedom's the state of my mind
You can't take my right to life
[Verse 4: Haze]
I've been fighting since the day that I was born
I've been writing since the day that I was warned of this cold world
Since the day I felt it dorm with my soul dwell
I've been out here fighting in the war with my lone self
Breaking barriers, or different calibers
Did it by myself, no label or manager,
Unanimous decision, we the truth, can you handle us?
Had enough of distributing food on a baggin up
Manning up, writing for the freedom, time to bad 'em up
This is for my brothers doing years, ain't adding up
Got to shed a tear, for those who lost too
And rally up the troops
All the people in the battle for the man above
People in the industry, keep asking me for happy stuff
But how can I make happy music when the world sad as fuck
Had enough of living in a world that seemed mad as fuck
Writing for my freedom, no scaly tucked

[Hook: Renee Soul]


[Outro: Haze]
I feel it when I write
I feel it when I speek
The reason we alive
The visions that we see
The path that we chose
The reason that we be
Writing to be free for everyone - you and me
Freedom Writers... Yeah, freedom writers
Freedom Writers... Yeah, freedom writers we tell it how it be