[intro]
(that sounds like ozzy)
[verse 1: jawill]
I fell out the nest with a few broken bones and a fractured skull
Picked myself up through the ash and smoke, flyin' while our ashes smoke
Rings is catchin' fire while i'm flappin' home
So i cross these lands and storms like pat mahomes
Toss me like he castin' stone, you niggas got some plastic notes
While this bird song make 'em listen like a pastor spoke
God took the former diss nigga just to ask you folks
Is flyin' really flyin' if before you go, you ask before?
It ain't no permission, on a mission when we takin' flights
Actin' like an eagle ain't gon' treat you when we take the sky
Leave you at the theater, get you left if you ain't playin' right
Your latest tunes is baby food, can't bite you with my appetite
Niggas ain't as half as nice
Bravado my motto, my pride is too big to swallow
These niggas stupid and hollow, you see the music is bottled
From pain in lightnin' in bottles, take a sip, and take a hit of gelato
Hit the clip 'fore my eyes close, and let the wind carry
Been buried, dirt is on my face as a reminder
That the sin carried on through my age as a child
Now i'm sittin' [?] out your shame, stop complyin'
When i open up this cage, i'ma get back to flyin'
[chorus: jawill]
If the caged bird sings, then the caged bird's wings
Will carry this bird 'til the caged bird free
If freedom is the land the caged bird can't reach
Then life is not an option when that caged bird bleeds
If the caged bird sings, then the caged bird's wings
Will carry this bird 'til the caged bird free
If freedom is the land the caged bird can't reach
Then life is not an option when that caged bird bleeds
[verse 2: nuke franklin]
Ayy, these ain't only verses i been scribin'
I been jottin' journal entries down to pick at my environment
Preachin' gospel over sounds of coppas' sirens, pistols firin'
Been alignin' with my faith, the only thing that keep me grounded
'til i'm six feet in the ground and dirt surround me
I give a blueprint to lil' black kids, we on some new shit
Like how he do this, and how he do that, a mountain i stacked
Of dead white faces, but kept it pro-black, you gotta know that
Been spooked by the doorstep, like fuckin' where the whores at
A pistol i can blow at, i lay the gold on my neck
So i can flex on my set, that's how they want it, i guess
For fifty acres and mules, need reparations and jets
Figured they severed my wings, so that's the best i could get
They stripped us back, gave us minimum, so we settled for less
A different cage than my uncles, with both, they buried the key
These walls collapsin' on me, my only wish is be free
How we alive but ain't livin'? my eyebrows to the ceilin'
Redesignin' my heaven, ain't tryna die 'fore i get it
Penny pinchin' in ten minutes cultivated my lineage
Found the script, now i'm flippin' it, i'ma ball for my syndicates
Want it all for my niggas 'nem
Reachin' out, tryna touch the sky, i been stretchin' my ligaments
From an ultra block to the top of the [?], i'm kickin' it
Flew right over agendas, i can't conform to no censorship
Ghetto jesus, i'm really it, huh