Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

I feel the chains coming off me
I feel the chains coming off of me
I feel the chains coming off me
I feel the chains coming off of me

Verse 1

Harriet Tubman freed slaves
What did they do when they took off the chains?
The trauma is never forgotten.
Never fully rehabilitate from that kind of shit
Now, consider it if when you aint never known your pops and you aint never known your kids
That being said what they teaching to them kids if they separated
And even if they with them they psychology has got to be all messed up by now.
They kids have had kids, you see. They kids have had kids and they kids have had us
We living proof of the mentality implanted in us, naw
We aint identified the cancer that’s damaging us
How we suppose to build from generation to generation like every other nation when history violently been erased
‘place with lies and loose ends.
Women and strong men. violently been raped
Why they exercising lust and the power to dominate
Choices of yesterday effecting the present day
Sorry to say that we’re still slaves Black
Now can you honestly say that
You done ever seen what freedom look like despite what you may think in your mind
How can you identify something you never seen like freedom

Freedom. How can you identify something you never seen like freedom. Freedom

One day we’ll be free. One day we’ll be free
(I can see that day)
One day we’ll be free. One day we’ll be free
(I can see it I can see it)

Verse II

Yeah Uh
How can you identify something you’ve never seen my brother
Like the love for one another before the fall.
Identify something you never seen like
Black people operating within unity
Before we boarded boats on the west coast of Africa
Black bodies was being hung from trees
Swinging in that summer breeze like decoration
What holiday did we give celebration?

Before they caught us sold and bought us at the auction
With the horses and the chickens had us picking cotton
What was it like to be a nation of just us
Before they gave us a white god to give trust
Before we had a “massa” and our heritage erased
Before we had a false god erected in His place
Before we were denied an education
Cause a education bring about rebellion in a people
Before they gave us education like replacement of the language that I’m speaking to you right now my people
Before they socially engineered my people with negative imagery
thats all they sending me and my people
and i can’t help but wonder what it must've been when
kunta was kunta he would kick ya with the good foot
kunta wasn’t toby
they told me I’m free
but how can i identify something i never seen like freedom