The Truth is Free
Jon Black
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The blood The sweat The work From me The land The oil The fruit The trees The gold The water My culture My speech Cost me a lot But now the truth is free The blood The sweat The work From me The land The oil The fruit The trees The gold The water My culture My speech Cost me a lot But now the truth is free Imagine a people Affected by an evil That only few like we know When slavery was legal Never seen as equal Shackled and made to leave home Africa to Portugal England and the East Coast Some died starving Some couldn't keep hope Leapt from the ships deck And chose to torpedo But most died from the disease though Shipped to the New World To build it up for zero Fought for civil rights in civil wars For The Eagle To turn around and see the pecking order under Jim Crow Nobody gave us freedom Had to be our own heroes Promised 40 acres Andrew Johnson had it vetoed We built a Black Wall Street They burned it down from ego The systematic breaking of the so-called Negro This country owe a lot But all it got is hate for me though It cost us everything So you know I got to speak on The blood The sweat The work From me The land The oil The fruit The trees The gold The water My culture My speech Cost me a lot But now the truth is free The blood The sweat The work From me The land The oil The fruit The trees The gold The water My culture My speech Cost me a lot But now the truth is free
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