War in the Mind (Freedom Time)

Lyrics
[Chorus] Everybody knows that they guilty Everybody knows that they've lied Everybody knows that they guilty Resting on their conscience eating their inside It's freedom, said it's freedom time now It's freedom, said it's freedom time now Time to get free, or give yourselves up now It's freedom, said it's freedom time [Verse] 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 Find the sin in disorder Bound by the strategy Of systematic 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 religious Some program on television How can dominant wisdom Be recognized in the system Of anti-christ, the majority rules Intelligent fools PhD's in illusion Masters of mass confusion Bachelors of past delusion Now who you choosing 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 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 belong to true enemies defeat? Destitute in necessity Causing desperation to get the best of me Punishment till there was nothing left of me Realizing the inescapable death of me No options in the valley of decision The only doctrine, supernatural circumcision Inwardly, only water can purge the heart From words to 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 repentance 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 majored in curses Search the chapters, check the verses Recapture the land Remove the mark from off of 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 [Chorus] It's freedom, said it's freedom time now It's freedom, said it's freedom time now It's freedom, I'mma be who I am It's freedom time, said it's freedom time Everybody knows that they've lied Everybody knows that they've perpetrated inside Everybody knows that they guilty, yes Resting on their conscience eating their insides Get free, be who you're supposed to be Freedom, said it's freedom time now Freedom, said it's freedom time Freedom, freedom time now
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Credits
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- Lauryn Hill