The Iceberg/Freedom of Speech... Just Watch What You Say!
Freedom of Speech
Ice-T
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[Verse 3]
Let me tell you about✦ down south
Where a motherfucker might as well not even✦ have a mouth
Columbus,✦ Georgia,✦ said they'd lock me up
If I got on the stage in my show and said "Fuck"
So I thought for a minute✦ and said "No
I wasn't even✦ gonna✦ do a damned✦ show"
Cos for me to change my words from my rhymes✦
Is never✦ gonna✦ happen✦ cos there's✦ no sell outs on mine
But I vowed✦ to get those motherfuckers one day
They even✦ arrested Bobby✦ Brown and Cool J
Yo, they got their's comin',✦ cos I'm mad and I'm gunnin'✦
Homeboys, and there's✦ no runnin'✦
I'm gonna✦ tell you how I feel about✦ you
No bull, no lies, no slack, just straight fact
Columbus,✦ Georgia,✦ you can suck my dick
You ain't nothin'✦ but a piece of fuckin'✦ shit on the damned✦ map
[Verse 4]
Freedom of Speech, let 'em take it from me
Next they'll take it from you, then what you gonna✦ do?
Let 'em censor✦ books, let 'em censor✦ art
PMRC, this is where the witch hunt starts
You'll censor✦ what we see, we read, we hear, we learn
The books will burn
You better✦ think it out
We should be able to say anything, our lungs were meant to shout
Say what we feel, yell out what's real
Even✦ though it may not bring mass appeal✦
Your opinion✦ is yours, my opinion✦ is mine
If you don't like what I'm sayin'? Fine
But don't close it, always✦ keep an open✦ mind
A man who fails to listen✦ is blind
We only✦ got one right left in the world today✦
Let me have it or throw The Constitution✦ away✦
[Outro: Jello Biafra]
What they're trying to do with radio,✦ with this, uh, McCarran-Walter Act and a lot of other✦ ways, is start by saying that they're protecting the public from wicked✦ rock bands, or girlie magazines, or whatever. But, if you follow✦ the chain of dominoes that falls down what they're really✦ trying to do is shut off our access to information✦ itself
If they can't do it by law they know there's✦ other✦ ways to do it
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