Freedom
(written by Mellow Creme)
Verse 1
I feel a rush coming through my vocal chords with notes
Explaining how I should relate to this nation that’s lost
I try to sound clear but its hard, my voice is hoarse
Still I gotta represent the ones hurting the most
Like this girl named Faith, grew up in the same hood
Our parents hung together, we ate the same food
We had the same love for culture and baggy jeans
She hung around with vultures, they killed her dreams
Too embarrassed to dance, she quit her path
She quit meditation, moving too fast
Embarrassed or not, its hard to resort
She needs medication to take her back
Now if the past keeps haunting her
The future cant protect her
The present is white noise
Switch it off, null and void
Chorus x2
It’s not about race, its about a girl named Faith
And how she got raped and left bleeding in bed
Its not about pain its about being told you cant
Have weight stuck on your skin that you gotta carry till the end
Verse 2
Faith was two years younger, born April 17
A day before independence, she was so innocent and clean
Like she was blessed by Bob Marley when he came to Zimbabwe
Everything she touched came true and was heavenly
She confided in me, we shared secrets and thoughts
Told her about my dreams and what I wrote
Of slave ships and boats and misunderstood gods
And chiefs that sold their own people for gold
And disguised evil with hope
Now we disguise innocence with dope
We spoke about the African left behind
Was blessed to be left but thought he was behind
Changed his name from Tendai to Toby
Changed his kinship from brother to homey
Chorus x2
It’s never about color, just a human virus
That turns us against another if he doesn’t look like us
The black man says it’s the white man that made him broke
The white man doesn’t understand why we devote
So much blood on riches and never on wealth
And the mixed races get caught up in between everything else
We call them racist but forget ourselves
We the worst discriminators coz we hate ourselves
We cant stand ourselves
God bless our souls
Its time we looked within and uplift our goals
And find freedom
Its time we looked within and uplift our goals
And find freedom
Chorus x2 till fade