[Verse 1]
Uhhh
A lonely teen just tryna change the world and make it out
Walking down the streets of portsmouth tryna take the safest route
At third baptist you see homeless men sleep
Walk to the mcdonald's and its men who beg for something to eat
And the same old heads who role dice behind the motel
Be the ones who wish they had enough money for to go there
Billboards say its a new life for you at T.C.C
But everytime I look its new black faces on T.V. screens
Man that shit make me regret doing alot of shit
How we still slaves when we were told that they abolished it?
Yall say that I'm the best cause I say whats behind the heart
And put my soul in paper so this shit sound like my final thoughts
Im the instigatar, i always tell the truth you hiding
Go tell yo neighbors matter fact go tell who you confide in
I dream of salvation so I spit with my eyes closed
Feel like a slave who blinded by freedoms blindfold, drive slow
[Hook x2]
I got dreams to be free
I got dreams to be free
Only thing that I see
Is darkness that won't leave
[Verse]
I know this shit I'm spitting now is sounding painful
And it prolly make alot of yall believe really ain't hope
Like the time Jermaine told me I sounded like j cole
And I prolly didn't show it but it touched me in my faint soul
It made me feel good until cassandra said she hated it
And wanted me to turn it off, i regreted I played the shit
Its crazy cause I never show how hurt my feelings be
I smiled when she said it but deep inside it was killing me
I guess a black man can never fully live his dream
Unless you a convict who found god and went to ministry
Now how you think that's gone effect the youth and adolescence
Its black teachers with no answers when you ask that question
But still we live through a everyday basis
Not investing on our future, but taking every vacation
Y'all confusing me, sounding rudimentatry, your music be
The reason why I can't get through to these
Kids
[Hook x2]
I got dreams to be free
I got dreams to be free
Only thing that I see
Is darkness that won't leave
[Verse 3]
I'm only 19 but my mindset is 41
So I save money instead of buying that poison blount
N***as thinking they hard shit cause they can sport a gun
When they should be in books, but hey they prolly ain't een thought it once
But then again they prolly out here tryna dodge a punch
Or moms screaming in the streets the cops done shot her son
Or prolly asking when the next person adopting us
I'm tired of going home to home, why they keep dropping us
Am I too bad a kid, is it cause I got lots of guts
The other kids be mean to me cause I don't box enough
But when I do fight, the police come lock us up
And if they don't, then they kill us on the block and stuff
So why resist being the headline of obituaries
Why is this something I'm drawing out to a visionary
Why is that same visionary vision's blurry, And he don't see my people dying fast and the fact we living scary
[Hook x2]
I got dreams to be free
I got dreams to be free
Only thing that I see
Is darkness that won't leave
[Verse]
Everyday I hear about somebody bout to die
And it cut my soul, thats why it seems im bout to cry
I mean fr, it cut deep enough to create a scab
I never met the victims but I love em like leeasha sabb
I pray to God everyday ion lose another brother
I pray to God everyday to watch over my mother
I pray to God that my father will watch me perform
I pray I don't get stage fright again when I go on
I pray these transparent chains will leave up off my people
I pray nobody get shot for looking through they peep holes
I pray that my youngest brother have a better life than me
Pray he Finish school, get a wife and do it rightfully
Pray that my ex girlfriend understands that she was hurting me
And she took my heart out the body like she removed it surgically
I pray the homeless will finally get they life together
I pray that we stand strong as a people and unite forever
[Hook x2]
I got dreams to be free
I got dreams to be free
Only thing that I see
Is darkness that won't leave
