There's a river running sweat right through our land
Driven by a man with a bullwhip in his hand
And I've taken just as much as I can stand
Oh we've got to free our brothers from their shackles if we can

Most nights I have to watch my woman cry
Every day I watch the colonel smile
His painted ladies riding in from town
I swear one day I'm gonna burn that whore house to the ground

Slave, slave
To fight the violence we must be brave
Hold on strong to the love God gave
Slave

There's a rumor of a war that's yet to come
That may free our families and our sons
It may lay green lands to barren wastes
The price of release is a bitter blow to face

CHORUS:
Everybody keeps tryin' 2 break my heart
Everybody except 4 me
I just want a chance 2 play the part
The part of someone truly free
Like candle slowly burning, I can feel my world unravel
Hemisphere upon hemisphere lie beneath my soul, soul
My enemies kept it turning, but now they pound the gavel
And judging me accordingly, I know, I know

CHORUS

Hey! {x3}
Oh

Burning slowly candle, handle careless they did
Merrily down 3 heartbreak boulevards
Like fashion statements, they lie "U be lookin' so good 2night, kid"
I do my best 2 party, it's just that everybody keeps tryin' 2 break my heart

(CHORUS)
Except 4 me (Except 4 me)
I just want a chance 2 play

(Just wanna be free)

Slowly candle burns, where'd they learn hypnosis?
How'd they keep me under 4 so long?
Break the bread I earn, just keep me far from closest
I need their kind 2 illustrate what's wrong - what's wrong?

Well, I'll tell U they just keep tryin' 2 break my heart (CHORUS)
They just keep tryin' 2 break my heart, ow!

(Everybody) {x2}

CHORUS

But I can't let U break my heart

(Everybody keeps tryin' 2 break my heart)
Slave! (Everybody keeps tryin' 2 break my heart)
Slave! Slave! (Everybody keeps tryin' 2 break my heart)
Slave!

It always feels like a craving is unfolding in me
It's just as bad as it seems
So I'm looking around cuz I'm lost when I'm down
I was blind but now I'm starting to see

The slave in me
And now I'm falling again
I'm so close to the end
I can see
The slave in me
And now I'm falling again
Don't know where to begin
Can you see the slave in me

It always feels like I'm shifting and moving the line
But I'm still falling behind
Now it won't go away and the feeling will stay
I can see I'm starting not to believe

The slave in me
And now I'm falling again
I'm so close to the end
I can see
The slave in me
And now I'm falling again
Don't know where to begin
Can you see the slave in me

I can't take one more day
I can't stand to feel this way
Take away from me, take away from me

The slave in me
And now I'm falling again
I'm so close to the end
I can see
The slave in me
And now I'm falling again
Don't know where to begin
Can you see the slave in me

There's a river running sweat right through our land
Driven by a man with a bullwhip in his hand
And I've taken just as much as I can stand
Oh we've got to free our brothers from their shackles if we can

Most nights I have to watch my woman cry
Every day I watch the colonel smile
His painted ladies riding in from town
I swear one day I'm gonna burn that whore house to the ground

Slave, slave
To fight the violence we must be brave
Hold on strong to the love God gave
Slave

There's a rumor of a war that's yet to come
That may free our families and our sons
It may lay green lands to barren wastes
The price of release is a bitter blow to face

I'm gettin the ahh, I'm gettin the ahh from the
weak shit that I hear no lyrical styles come near
to the one who boasts like Buck
On the mic truck, cuz I never gave a fuck
I hate the weak shit, man it be fuckin with my soul
I peeped how radio be trying to take control
Tellin me to get a little lighter on my lyrics
But if it ain't real on the mic I can't feel it
Straight from my bloodstream, I pump finesse
Nevertheless, hold it in your chest like stress
Rhythm and blues style is not in my environment
And when I slowww dowwwn it's time to take a hit
But until I fall off, call off your set
and if you never knew me, then you never knew wreck
Look inside of the mind and see
Cause you might be trapped with a nigga like me
I feel like I'm trapped in the motherfuckin cave
To the rhythm I'm a slave, lookin in my grave
Jugulur vein bustin out my neck, you see the rage
I move when I groove cuz I'm into, the stage
of the Buckshot, black, I'm bringin it back
to the roots, like Timberland boots, home on my rack
And I don't give a FUCK what you say
Commercial rap, get the gun clap, day after day
Niggaz don't play on the d low, kid you know my steelo
I roll on more niggaz than cee-lo
We might just bumrush your set
Me AND my niggaz on the real mic check
Like my nigga Smif gettin swift on the gift
Then I toss another lesson to my nigga Wessun
And my nigga Five from the tribe of Moon
Pass the Crooked I, bitch yo pass the boom
Whenever you're ready I'ma take you into the stage
Deep in the mind of a slave

Drop your Gods and your primitive religion
Worship our land
Practice diminished
Slaves of the free world
Man made hunger
Bile and vulgar
Kneel

Brave new world
In the shadow of your mysterious death
Slave new world
In the shadow of your mysterious death

Dead man standing
Old man on his knees
Ragged glory
Evil breeds
Strapped by the angels
Freed by hate
Murder spree

Drop your Gods and your primitive religion
Worship our land
Practice diminished
Slaves of the free world
Man made hunger
Bile and vulgar
Kneel

Brave new world
In the shadow of your mysterious death
Slave new world
In the shadow of your mysterious death

Black orange white and red
Dresses hanging off your bed
From now until you reach your grave
Baby I will be your slave

Ask for your hand to hold
You know I could never be so bold
I could never be so brave
Baby I will be your slave

Lying words like overflow
They'll rule your heart - before you know
They'll cover you - from head to toe
They'll never mean a word they say
They just go

I'll bring your mother back to life
I'll bring your father back his sight
Back float in a tidal wave
Baby I will be your slave

I had a dream of bleeding skies
Crippled legs and static eyes
Open land and quiet cave
Baby I will be your slave

I love you, don't you trust me?
Do you love me, like I love you?
I'm broken, lost in misery
But you don't have to worry about me
I have no more soul to save
So baby I will be your slave
Baby I will be your slave

Ministers of religion
have visited me many times
to talk about it
They say to me
I gotta leave it I gotta leave it
It's a bad habit
for a man
But when I try to leave it
my friends keep telling me
I'm a fool amongst fools

Chorus:
Now I'm a slave, a slave
I'm a slave
I'm a liquor slave
I'm a slave, a slave, slave
I'm a slave
Just a liquor slave

I have lost my dignity
I had before trying
to please everybody
Some say to me
yo yo
I look better when I'm drunk
Some say no no no
I look bad you know
Sometimes I cry
I cry but my crying
never helps me none

Chorus:
'Cos now I am a slave, a slave
I'm a slave
I'm just a liquor slave
I am a slave, a prisoner
I'm a slave
Just a liquor slave

Every night when I'm
coming back home
My wife gets worried
'cos she knows
Shes got double trouble
coming home
Sometimes I cry
I cry lord I cry
But my crying
never helps me

Chorus: (till fade)

Lived too long they have come to take me to
A place where I can die.
Lost my soul lost my confidence in me.
Can't be something but I'll try.

Lived too long and waited to just drown.
In my self pity, I keep falling down.

Want to be your soldier
Want to be your slave
I have no pride in myself

Only book that I own is called How to Lose
Pick a chapter I know them all just choose.
Lived too long and waited to find
A place where I can die
Lost my soul lost my confidence in me
Can't be something but I'll try

Want to be your soldier
Want to be your slave
Have no pride in myself
That's how I behave.... GO!

I can fight! (x4)

You know I didn't mean to hurt you baby
I didn't really mean to cause you pain
So if you want I will cover you with kisses
And I will be your slave again

I need your love and understanding baby
But you changed the lock on your front door
If you want I will cover you with roses
I want to be your slave again

I wanna be your slave

You know I'm getting tired of back door loving
You give me all my heart desires
Lord have mercy when I slipped
And fell and I broke your heart
I wanna be your slave again

I wanna be your slave

If you want I will cover you with kisses
Sweet surrender to your touch
If you want take all I give
I wanna be your slave
I wanna be your slave again

So here I am waiting to see you baby
Stacking roses around your front door
I miss your love, I miss your loving touch now mama
I wanna be your slave again
I wanna be your slave

Sick of all the bullshit
I wonder if we
Got enough to start our own army
Sick of all the spindle (?)
I wonder indeed
If Satan's sitter sends are we (?)

One day should we learn to pardon
Safe inside we'll be
With no more lost from all this talking
Of god damned misery

I will never be your slave
I can point my finger too
I won't ever say your name (?)
From any other point of view

Sick of being the puppet
I'm held up by strings
With one move to put me where they please
Sick of all the shamble
I wonder what would be
If one day we all should come unleashed

I will never be your slave
I can point my finger too
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I won't ever say your name (?)
From any other point of view

I will never be your slave
I can pull the trigger too
I won't ever say your name (?)
From any other point of view

One day should we learn to pardon
Safe inside we'd be
With no more lost from all this talking
Of god damned misery

I will never be your slave
I can point my finger too
I won't ever say your name (?)
From any other point of view

I will never be your slave
I can pull the trigger too
I won't ever say your name (?)
From any other point of view

I won't ever be your slave

All my friends wanna meet you darling
Please stay away, away now
Bite my tongue
As you're pushing me to the ground
Can't stay away, away, away now

Ten days ago we fell asleep in bed ba bada bada ba bada
Today I woke up and everything was dead ba bada bada ba bada

She said "Hi, what's your name?
I like the coat you're wearing."
I said, "Hi I'm your slave.
It's what I do all day."
She said, "great by the way,
I wanna put you on a shelf.
I'm alive to obey
I don't know anything else."

Hold my hand through the thick and thicker
Go away, away, away now
Can't let go
Even if you can go away, away now

Ten days ago we fell asleep in bed ba bada bada ba bada
Today I woke up and everything was dead ba bada bada ba bada

She said "Hi, what's your name?
I like the coat you're wearing."
I said, "Hi I'm your slave.
It's what I do all day."
She said, "great by the way,
I wanna put you on a shelf.
I'm alive to obey
I don't know anything else."

I change my mind
I'm sick of always waiting to see what I am worth to you my love
Don't waste my time with all these bedroom lies

She said "Hi, what's your name?
I like the coat you're wearing."
I said, "Hi I'm your slave.
It's what I do all day."
She said, "great by the way,
I wanna put you on a shelf.
I'm alive to obey
I don't know anything else."

Do it, do it, do it, do it
Do it, do it, do it, do it

Don't wanna be your slave
Don't wanna be your slave
Don't wanna be your slave

Don't wanna be your slave
Don't wanna be your slave
Don't wanna be your slave

Twenty four hours a day
Hey, why don't you go down to the supermarket
Get something to eat, steal something off the shelves
Pass by the liquor store
Be back about quarter to twelve

Don't wanna be your slave
Don't wanna be your slave
Don't wanna be your slave

Don't want to be your slave
Baby go, baby go, baby go
Do it yeah

Do it, do it, do it, do it
Do it, do it, do it, do it

Love, barely alive in your arms.
Slave
Dreams taken too far, every night.
Slave.

Who put on your heart?
Who put on your heart?
Who put on your heart?
'Cause I can't change us, no.

When your on your own, you can see
Things.
Clear, clear as a dove, and your free.
Slave.

Who put on your heart?
Who put on your heart?
Who put on your heart?
'Cause I can't change us, no.

And my girl will say good-bye
To the things we never tried.

(Solo)

Who put on your heart?
Who put on your heart?
Who put on your heart?
Cause I can't change us, no.

Love, barely alive
Love, barely alive
Love, barely alive
Slave.