MAYA

They killed my little bro Thomas yesterday
 And when you colored you don't really look to the law to investigate
 You just get the drop slide on the ops and replicate the same cycle
 Now you made rivals
 And you wonder why we remain spiteful
 I'ma tell you how the government truly put us in this position
 They only give assistance under one condition
 You gotta make sure that the daddy is missing
 They lower commissions, raise up the rent and then hand out evictions
 Soon as they put drugs in the hood they took away the love in the hood
 You see, it's bad enough when we see cops that gotta frisk and smoke
 But then we hear stupid shit like
 "You know black people kill each other the most"
 As if it ain't human nature to kill or attack whatever is close
 Whatever comes with a negative approach
 It's another way to put a rope on our throats
 It's amazed that we lost in, think about what we got tossed in
 A prisoner couldn't kill a king and lions don't murder dolphins (never)
 You can't kill who you don't see
 In other words forcing us in the ghetto
 Was part of plot to put us against eachother
 Until we rot but we all that we got, yuh
 They threw us in the slums and took our dreams
 Replaced them with a gun it's all a scheme
 Then locked us in a box I hear your screams
 Caged bird I gotta let you sing
 Caged bird, I gotta let you
 Caged bird, I gotta let you sing
 Caged bird, I gotta let you (yuh)
 Caged bird, I gotta let you sing (yuh)
 Flew away and got my dreams, had to find my peace
 Moving cautious everywhere soldiers are falling like the leaves
 Block is calling, forcing my movements to be all I can be
 I meditate, it's crazy I'm recently learning how to breath
 Tension always building, we pensive they just be by my complexion
 I own my shit, I don't rent it
 I tell them talk to me nice
 Fuck that, talk to us nice
 They beat us over our backs
 But we still walking upright
 And now it's time to fly away now
 They threw us in the slums and took our dreams
 Replaced them with a gun, it's all a scheme
 Then locked us in a box I hear your screams
 Caged bird, I gotta let you sing
 Caged bird, I gotta let you
 Caged bird, I gotta let you sing
 Caged bird, I gotta let you
 Caged bird, I gotta let you sing
 Fly away
 Fly away
 Fly away
 Fly away
 Fly away
 Fly away
 Fly away
 Fly away
 Fly away
 Fly away (yuh)
 Fly away, oh
 Fly away, oh
 Not my problem, when my work is over
 I will fly away
 (What?) Yo gimme that
 Oh my god
 There be no love letter passing in my classroom