Noyz - Degrees of Freedom lyrics

"That is why I say it's the ballot or the bullet! It's liberty or it's d**h! It's freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody!" I was born as the product of a lion and a princess I promised mama when I die I'll leave an imprint Gifted by my pops who was not quite a pastor But whenever asked, he said 'God lights the answer'; But dark finds you faster Hard trying to master the science of life, when you ain't applying it right So with art I'm trying to capture depths, I write essences Locked in my bars when I'm speaking life sentences And the letters are never to keep The release is the sheets of poetry we've coded over beats And my pad is the Rorschach, pictures in the ink And how you see it is depending on the different ways you think I know the system's on the brink when your freedom is speech is paid for, radio says that you need a receipt Change course where I'm leaving my feet I break north with great force, a blazed torch leading my fleet Step up from a follower, tomorrow is here Tales of survival, we bottle and swallow the fear Harrow to hear the words of a younger tongue Saying where he's coming from is the same place that he was running from The remains of old caught in the session I'm reborn, parting with post-partum depression I leave norms, starting my growth, farther I'm stepping In each storm, harness the lesson, causing progression It's like we're self taught So I speak what I know, trying to reach what they keep on the low It's deep So if I reap what I sow then the fruits of my labor should grow So until the harvest, I'm just taking it slow!