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Freedom Time

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Freedom Time

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Freedom Time

Everybody knows that they're guilty, everybody knows that they've lied

Everybody knows that they're guilty, yes resting on their conscience, eating their insides.

It's freedom, said it's freedom time now, It's freedom, said it's freedom time now. Time to get free, oh give yourselves up now, it's freedom, said it's freedom time

There's a war in the mind over territory for the dominion

Who will dominate the opinion, schisms and -isms

Keeping us in forms of religion, conforming our vision to the world church's decision

Trapped in a section, submitted to committee election

Moral infection, epidemic lies and deception

Insurrection of the highest possible order

Distorting our tape recorders from hearing like under water

Beyond the borders fond of sin and disorder, bound by the strategy of systemic depravity

Heavy as gravity, head-first in the cavity without a bottom

A fate worse than Sodom

What's got 'em drunk off the spirits, truth comes we can't hear it 'when you've been programmed to fear it

I had a vision I was falling in indecision, appalling, calling religion some program on television

How could dominant wisdom be recognized in a system of antichrists and majority rules

Intelligent fools

PhDs in illusion, masters of mass confusion, bachelors of past delusion

Now who you choosin, the head or the tail

The bloodshed of the male, or confidence in the veil

Conferences at Yale discussing doctrines of Baal, causing people to fail, keeping the third in jail

His word has nailed everything to the tree, severing all of me from all that I used to be

Formless and void, totally paranoid, enjoyed darkness as

Lord keeping me from the sword, I was blocked from mercy, bitter than cerasee

hungry and thirsty for good meat we would eat and still dine at the table of deceit

How incomplete

From confrontation to retreat, we prolonged the true enemies' defeat

Destitute of necessity

Causing desperation to get the best of me

Punishment till there was nothing left of me, realizing the unescapable death of me

No options in the valley of decision

The only doctrine supernatural circumcision

Inwardly only water can purge the heart from words

The fiery darts thrown by the workers of the arts

Iniquity, shapen in, there's no escaping when your whole philosophy is paper thin

In vanity, the wide road is insanity

Could it be all of humanity? Picture that

Scripture that! The origin of man's heart is black

How can we show up for an invisible war

Preoccupied with a shadow, making love with a whore, aching in sores

Babylon the great mystery, mother of human history, system of social sorcery

Our present condition needs serious recognition

Where there's no repentence there can be no remission, and that sentence more serious than Vietnam, the atom bomb, and Saddam, and Minister Farrakhan

What's going on? What's a priority to you? By what authority do we do

The majority hasn't a clue

We've majored in curses, search the chapters, check the verses, recapture the land, remove the mark from off our hands, so we can stand in agreement with His command

Everything else is damned, let them with ears understand. Everything else is damned, let them with ears understand…

It's freedom, said it's freedom time now, It's freedom, said it's freedom time now. It's freedom, I'm a be who I am, it's freedom time, said it's freedom time

Everybody knows that they've lied, Everybody knows they've perpetrated inside Everybody knows that they're guilty yes, resting on their conscience, eating their insides.

Get free, be who your supposed to be, freedom, said it's freedom time now, freedom, said it's freedom time, freedom, freedom time.

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