Caged Bird (feat. Omen)

Yeah, caged bird

Somethin' like a caged bird

Caged bird

Yeah, look

You ain't a man till you stop chasin' your friends, my ****

Think for yourself, make your own plans, my ****

I'd be lyin' if I said I ain't understand, my ****

'Cause who you gonna follow when the leaders all get swallowed

By reefer clouds and bottles, in and out of county jail

This is Hell, see the young, black males in packed cells

With they heads down and they fists clenched tight

Thinkin', "I could bust a hole through this wall, and bitch, I just might"

It's just like the caged bird, I sing a song

Hopin' they open up these bars and send a **** home, I cry when I'm alone

I wonder why would God send me here, knowin' that they hate us?

Knowin' that they make us feel like we evil, so we kill our people

Without a second thought, in every lesson taught by OGs

We full of real **** wisdom, so we proceed

Like real **** who been stripped of our humanity

I see the judge's eyes, I know that he ain't understandin' me

A caged bird (Yeah, caged bird)

(Let this little caged bird sing) Caged bird

Yeah, caged bird

Freedom's just an illusion, that's my conclusion

And if it an't, then how my **** keep on losin' theirs?

This goes out to childhood friends that's doin' years

Prison tats on they backs like souvenirs

We wish that you was here

A mother's tears filled up this page

A brother's tears spilled on this page

How many days left?

And can you find peace when you released?

Still filled up with rage, back on the streets

Just to peep that you still in a cage

Well, it's the oratory vet

Turned down king slash poet laureate

Used to paint a picture with a story of neglect

I could've been a shorty drinkin' 40s on the steps with a short on my lap

With a shorty on the way, comin' shortly to protect

I could've been a dealer in the party with the X

But I'm hardly in the mix and I partially confess

I definitely got a couple parts in me that I regret

Is the cup half empty or is it half full?

I fill mine up with Hennessy, then get back to 'em

I'm just a jazz musician trapped in a rap form

You think you standin' for somethin', you on a trap door

Well, it's the mister introspective

I'ma dream a dream, a sort of an "Inception"

I never fiend for the scene, but I've dreamed of the things

That a Mercedes brings, like slow sex with fast women

Drinkin' Cognac, I'm past grinnin', a sexy dress, fat ass in it

But still hit it till I'm half winded

'Cause **** tell me I'm the shit when I be hittin' all these dimes

See, I'm caged by the visions of the blind

I started as a king, turned to a slave

Put us in our chains, we was forced to entertain

Thinkin' 'bout the present day, I'm livin' off the stage

Wonder if a **** ever get up out this cage, as I sing

Caged bird (Yeah, caged bird)

(Let this little caged bird sing) Caged bird

Yeah, caged bird

Freedom's just an illusion, that's my conclusion

And if it an't, then how my **** keep on losin' theirs?

This goes out to childhood friends that's doin' years

Prison tats on they backs like souvenirs

We wish that you was here

A mother's tears filled up this page

A brother's tears spilled on this page

How many days left?

And can you find peace when you released?

Still filled up with rage, back on the streets

Just to peep that you still in a cage, damn

(I've got to hide this time of grindin')

(That we know be 257)

(Now I'm standin' in to get burned)

(I've got to hide this time of grindin')

(That we know be 257)

(Now I'm crashin' to the ground)