A Song For Assata Lyric Common LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE

(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.
Yeah. yo, 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 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

'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 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.

(Cee-lo vocals)
I'm 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

She'd exercise, (paint?,) and begin to read
Two years inna hole. Her
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
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
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 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
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)
I'm
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
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.

(Cee-Lo vocals)
I'm thinkin' of Assata, yeah.
Listen to
my Love, Assata, yeah.
We're 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 freedom.
Askin me about freedom?
I'll be honest with you. I know a whole more about
what freedom isn't
than about what it is, cause I've 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 do. (fade out)

 

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