Preventing me from freedom,
maintaining your pollution
I won't support your lie no more
If I have to die, oh Lord,
that's how I choose to live
I won't be compromised no more
I can't be victimized no more
I just don't sympathize no more,
You say "love" then abuse me
You never thought you'd lose me
But how quickly we forget
that nothin' is for certain
You thought I'd stay here hurtin'
Your guilt trip's just not workin',
‘Cause now I'm choosin' yo life, yo
I'll take the sacrifice, yo
If everything must go, then go:
that's how I choose to live
Aight, okay, it's how I choose to live
oh, I get out of all your boxes
oh, you can't hold me in these chains
oh, I want out of social bondage
oh, is the reason I must change
See, what you see is what you get
Oh, and you ain't seen nothin' yet
Oh, I don't care if you're upset
I could care less if you're upset
See, it don't change the truth
And your hurt feeling's no excuse
Repressin' true expression
Cementin' this repression
So that no one can be healed
I've just accepted what you said
Keeping me among the dead
Is to walk to learn and grow
But faith is not your speed
Oh, you’d have everyone believe
That you're the sole authority
Afraid to face reality, the system is a joke
Oh, you'd be smart to save your soul
Oh, and escape this mind control
You spent your life in sacrifice
where is the passion in this living?
Are you sure it's God you serving?
Getting less than you're deserving
Who made up these schools, I say
Who made up these rules, I say
Oh, just to keep us as a slave
