A Song for Assata - Common Sense F/ Cee-Lo
Artist : “Common Sense F/ Cee-Lo”
Song title : “A Song for Assata”
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common
In the spirit of god
In the spirit of the ancestors
In the spirit of the black panthers
In the spirit of assata shakur
We make this movement towards freedom
for all those who have been oppressed
and all those in the struggle
Yeahyo
Check it-
There were lights and sirens
Gunshots firin
Cover your eyes as i describe a scene so violent
Seemed like a bad dream
She laid in a blood puddle
Blood bubbled in her chest
Cold air brushed against open flesh
No room to rest
Pain consumed each breath
Shot twice wit her hands up
Police questioned but shot before she answered
One panther lost his life
The other ran for his
Scandalous the police were as they kicked and beat her
Comprehension she was beyond
Tryna hold on
To lifeshe thought shed live with no arm
Thats what it felt like
Got to the hospital
Eyes held tight
They moved her room to room-she could tell by the light
Handcuffed tight to the bed
Through her skin it bit
Put guns to her head
Every word she got hit
"who shot the trooper?" they asked her
Put mace in her eyes
Threatened to blast her
Her mind raced till things got still
Opened her eyes
Realized shes next to her best friend who got killed
She got chills
They told her thats where she would be next
Hurt mixed wit anger-survival was a reflex
They lied and denied visits from her lawyer
But she was buildin as they tried to destroy her
If it wasnt for this german nurse they woulda served her worse
I read this sisters story
Knew that it deserved a verse
I wonder what would happen if that woulda been me?
All this shit so we could be free
So dig it
Yall
Cee-lo vocals
Im thinkin of assata
Yes
Listen to my love
Assata
Yes
Your power and pride is beautiful
May god bless your soul
Common
It seemed like the middle of the night when the law awakened her
Walkie-talkies cracklin
I see em when they takin her
Though she kinda knew
What made the ride peaceful was the trees and the sky was blue
Arrived to middlesex prison about six inna morning
Uneasy as they pushed her to the second floor in
a cell
One cot
No window
facing hell
Put in the basement of a prison wit all males
And the smell of misery
Seatless toilets and centipedes
Shed exercise
Paint?
and begin to read
Two years inna holeher soul grew weak
Away from people so long she forgot how to speak
She discovered frredom is a unspoken sound
And a wall is a wall and can be broken down
found peace in the panthers she went on trial with
One of the brothers she had a child with
The foulness they would feed her
Hopin shes lose her seed
Held tight
Knowing the fight would live through this seed
In need of a doctor
from her stomach shes bleed
Out of this situation a girl was conceived
Separated from her
Left to mother the revolution
And lactated to attack hate
Cause federal and state was built for a black fate
Her emptiness was filled with beatings and court dates
They fabricated cases
Hoping one would stick
And said she robbed places that didnt exist
In the midst of threats on her life and being caged with aryan whites
Through dark halls of hate she carried the light
I wonder what would happen if that woulda been me?
All of this shit so we could be free
Yeah
I often wonder what would happen if that woulda been me?
All of this shit so we could be free
So dig it
People-
Cee-lo
Im thinkin of assata
Yeah
Listen to my love
Assata
Yeah
Your power and pride
So beautiful
May god bless your soul
Oooh
Common
Yo
from north carolina her grandmother would bring
News that she had had a dream
Her dreams always meant what they needed them to mean
What made them real was the action in between
She dreamt that assata was free in they old house in queens
The fact that they always came true was the thing
Assata had been convicted of a murder she couldna done
Medical evidence shown she couldna shot the gun
Its time for her to see the sun from the other side
Time for her daughter to be by her mothers side
Time for this beautiful woman to become soft again
Time for her to breathe
and not be told how or when
She untangled the chains and escaped the pain
How she broke out of prison i could never explain
And even to this day they try to get to her
But shes free with political asylum in cuba
Cee-lo vocals
Im thinkin of assata
Yeah
Listen to my love
Assata
Yeah
Were molded from the same mud
Assata
We share the same blood
Assata
Yeah
Your power and pride
So beautiful
May god bless your soul
Your power and pride
So beautiful
May god bless your soul
Oooh
Assata
freedom!you askin me about freedomaskin me about freedom?
Ill be honest with youi know a whole more about what freedom isnt
Than about what it is
Cause ive never been free
I can only share my vision with you of the future
about what freedom is
Uhh
The way i see it
freedom is-is the right to grow
Is the right to
Blossom
freedom is -is the right to be yourself
To be who you are
To be who you wanna be
To do what you wanna dofade out