Caged Bird Lyrics - Aceyalone

[Chorus: Aceyalone] 

Some birds don't deserve to be caged 

They gotta fly away and search for the waves 

Bein locked up is worse than the grave 

I live by the words on the page - I know! 

Some birds don't deserve to be caged 

They gotta fly away and search for the waves 

Bein held down is worse than the grave 

I live by the words on the page - I say! 

[Aceyalone] 

I jumped on the planet and I landed on both feet 

Tippy-toed across the continent, on the dope beat 

Settled in the mainland ghetto by the sand trap 

Rocked to a handclap until I got my band back 

Thoughts came thick in a ball of confusion 

A wall of belusion it's all so amusin 

I laughed at the pain sometimes with a straight face 

Just another hate case, you control your fate Ace! 

Long walks down the lonely road turned path paved 

Bask in the cascade, grey clouds circle me 

Tuned to the channel so their energy will work on me 

All in the cut like surgery and burnt to the third degree 

internally, avoid an away story 

40 and slip of tongue, tryin to bring the poison noise 

Step in the spot like I'm not that popular 

Eyes like binoculars, I'm so Hip-Hopular 

Been on the air since Greg had a Mac attack 

Now they all CrackerJack, that's a fact, smell me 

How can you tell me what I haven't already heard 

Forty-three, 43rd, listen and observe 

First flew the coop when they tried to cage a rocking bird 

Lookin for the truth in the booth when I serve 

Never clip the wings if they seem a little out of touch 

Let 'em fly free please, don't try to box 'em up 

[Chorus] 

[Aceyalone] 

I open a lot cause I smash it with brute force 

Flew over the roof, headed North on a crash course 

Eagle eyes spot 'em all, groundhog peekin out 

Stickin out against the whack world while they freakin out 

Wasn't 'sposed to go but I just didn't wanna wait 

Been had a ticket but the Chattanooga's runnin late 

Hate never had a lover good as I been to her 

Couldn't put an end to her, cause she got followers 

Whole flock of spitters and swallowers, wow 

Intregrity didn't have a home 'til I gave him one 

{?} and diamonds, God said say no more 

Find a piece of mind like a needle in the haystack 

Grind on the real on the playback, ready for the at-tack 

Seatack, cry me a riverboat 

If I don't fly back, still gotta give 'em hope 

Stand and delivery, first class rain or shine 

Pain of mine in a pantomime glass chilled 

Where was your genie when you needed her for real 

Buildin my art from the parts that they overlooked 

Fuse lit from the last match in the book 

Stand in adrenaline, pumped through the resevoir 

Plucked out the air cause he didn't sit duck 

Pretty as the peacock who can't even leave the ground 

Let the heart glide on, don't buy the muck