Name: A Song For Assata
Duration: 6 min 48 s
Description: Слушайте песню A Song For Assata - Common, Cee-Lo онлайн с альбома Like Water For Chocolate в хорошем HiFi качестве с сервисом Звук. Продолжительность песни - 6:48. Год выхода - 2000

Like Water For Chocolate

Common

Vinia Mojica

Roy Hargrove

Femi Kuti

Time Travelin' (A Tribute To Fela)

Heat

Rahzel

Cold Blooded

Dooinit

The Light

Bilal

Jill Scott

Funky For You

Mos Def

The Questions

Time Travelin' Reprise

The 6th Sense

MC Lyte

A Film Called (PIMP)

Nag Champa (Afrodisiac For The World)

Slum Village

Thelonius

Cee-Lo

A Song For Assata

Hip-Hop

For all those who have been oppressed, and all those in the struggle.

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

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 life. She thought she'd live with no arm

That's 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

Put mace in her eyes, threatened to blast her

Opened her eyes, realized she's next to her best friend who got killed

She got chills, they told her: that's 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 wasn't for this german nurse they woulda served her worse

I read this sister's 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, y'all.

It seemed like the middle of the night when the law awakened her

Walkie-talkies cracklin, I see 'em when they takin her

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

Put in the basement of a prison wit all males

And the smell of misery, seatless toilets and centipedes

She'd exercise, (paint?,) and begin to read

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

The foulness they would feed her, hopin she's lose her seed

Held tight, knowing the fight would live through this seed

In need of a doctor, from her stomach she's bleed

Out of this situation a girl was conceived

Separated from her, left to mother the Revolution

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 didn't exist

In the midst of threats on her life and being caged with Aryan whites

Through dark halls of hate she carried the light

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-

From North Carolina her grandmother would bring

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

It's time for her to see the sun from the other side

Time for her daughter to be by her mother's 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 she's free with political asylum in Cuba.

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