Freedom Time Lyrics - Mtv Unplugged 2.0 - Lauryn Hill

Everybody knows that they guilty 

Everybody knows that they've lied 

Everybody knows that they guilty 

Resting on their conscience eating their inside 

It's freedom, said it's freedom time now 

It's freedom, said it's freedom time now 

Time to get free, or give yourselves up now 

It's freedom, said it's freedom time 

[Rapping] 

Yo, there's a war in the mind, over territory 

For the dominion 

Who will dominate the opinion 

Skisms and isms, keepin' us in forms of religion 

Conformin' our vision 

To the world church of decision 

Trapped in a section 

Submitted to committing election 

Moral infection 

Epidemic lies and deception 

Insurrection 

Of the highest possible order 

Destortin' our tape recorders 

From hearin' like under water 

Beyond the borders 

Find the sin in disorder 

Bound by the strategy 

A systematic deprivaty 

Heavy as gravity 

Head first in the cavity 

Without a bottom 

A fate, worse than Sodom 

What's got 'em, drunk off the spirits 

Truth comes, we can't hear it 

When you've been, programmed to fear it 

I had a vision I was fallin' in indescision 

Apallin', callin' religious 

Some program on television 

How can, dominant wisdom 

Be recognized in the system 

Of Anti-Christ, the majority rules 

Intelligent fools 

PhD's in illusion 

Masters of massconfusion 

Bachelors in past illusion 

Now who you choosin' 

The head, the tail 

The bloodshed of male 

Or confidence in the tale 

Conference is in Yale 

Discussin' doctrines of bail 

Causin' people to fail 

Keepin' the third in jail 

His word is nail 

Everything to the tree 

Severing all of me 

From all that I used to be 

Formless and void 

Totally paranoid 

Enjoy darkness as Lord 

Keepin' me from the sword 

Block for mercy 

Bitter than cerasee 

Hungry and thirsty 

For good meat we would eat 

And still, dined at the table of deceit 

How incomplete 

From confrontation to retreat 

We belong, the true enemies defeat 

Destitute a necessity 

Causin' desperation to get the best of me 

Punishment 'til there was nothing left of me 

Realizin' the inescapable death of me 

No options in the valley of decision 

The only doctrine, supernatural circumcision 

Inwardly, only water can purge the heart 

From words to fiery darts 

Thrown by the workers of the arts 

Iniquity, shapen in 

There's no escapin' when 

Your whole philosophy is paper thin 

In vanity 

The wide road is insanity 

Could it be all of humanity 

Picture that 

Scripture that 

The origin of a man's heart is black 

How can we show up for 

An invisible war 

Preoccupied with a shadow, makin' love with a whore 

Achin' in sores 

Babylon, the great mystery 

Mother of human history 

System of social sorcery 

Our present condition 

Needs serious recognition 

Where there's no repentance there can be no remission 

And that sentence, more serious than Vietnam 

The atom bomb is Saddam and Minister Farakkkhan 

What's goin' on, what's the priority to you 

What authority do we do 

When the majority hasn't a clue 

We majored in curses 

Search the chapters, check the verses 

Recapture the land 

Remove the mark from off of our hands 

So we can stand 

In agreement with his command 

Everything else is damned 

Let them with ears understand 

Everything else is damned, let them with ears understand 

It's freedom, said it's freedom time now 

It's freedom, said it's freedom time now 

It's freedom, I'ma be who I am 

It's freedom time, said it's freedom time 

Everybody knows that they've lied 

Everybody knows that they've perpetrated inside 

Everybody knows that they guilty, yes 

Resting on their conscience eating their insides 

Get free, be who you're suppost to be 

Freedom, said it's freedom time now 

Freedom, said it's freedom time 

Freedom, freedom time now