Counting my years to freedom 

Born into the world free as a butterfly fresh out its cocoon

How dare some white man take that shit away from me

Being raised in my homeland of Africa

Surrounded by my beautiful black bold  friends and family

Living in a world with responsibilities but never working for free

Never thought I would be took into captivity 

Bondage just doesn't look good on me how dare some white man take that shit away from me like a am an animal in a zoo

being raised as a free man in a free land 

surrounded by beautiful colored people being in this cage, under the sun

they dare me to run because they have a gun

they believe that gives them power 

that they are stronger than us 

when really we are the strongest 

we endure so much in a day under this same sun, we are whipped and brutalized 

left for dead, at that moment you must stronger than the white man and get up and live to work again for the white man 

this world has a plan against us

i pray God hears my prayers at night 

that one day this world will be right