A Bigger Picture Called Free - Common, Syd, Bilal

Living in a glass bubble, the fast hustle

The masked struggle that I’m in, the same one that you in

I knew inside when I was outside on the south side

Had to take it a step further the way that Ralph tried

Oh that’s my stepfather

He stressed harder to make that bed and lock them doors

For the perfect picture, I forgot to pose

Used to rock Jabos and go out with bros

Tryna get lots of hoes till I got exposed

To a bigger picture called free, in the picture, it was me

Al-Hajj Malik Shabazz, Muhammad, and Noble Drew Ali

A side of Erykah Badu and Andre 3000

Telling me what I can’t be

But you can’t paint me

Black is the color of my true love spirit and I do love lyrics

And I used to love Harold’s Chicken and I dance pretty good

And I feel at home in the hood and I get lit in the club

Still I love

If you look in my eyes, you’ll see love deep inside

When I look in the sky, I see freedom

If you look in my eyes, you’ll see love deep inside

When I look in the sky, I see freedom

If you hear this rhyme, it’s coming from division 9

The toughest in Cook County

They count me out cause I did a crime

They say it’s violent time in human beings

But being they ain’t seeing me as human

In this big business called prison, I’m the one that’s consuming

Illuminati illuminate me, fume and hate me

Mutilate me from my family, society, and loved ones

I wasn’t raised to love guns, well maybe toy ones

My pops, y’all built and destroyed him

With prescriptions of poverty, dope, and unemployment

When will we see enjoyment?

I smile when my little boy get to visit for about 30 minutes

But we ain’t never spent Christmas together, tryna get it together

What I’ma do when I get out?

I don’t know what it is to live out

Just reminiscing of the big house, I’m the one justice chose to spit out

My life story is written in a prison sentence

Wonder if this cell got room for forgiveness?

Still I love

If you look in my eyes, you’ll see love deep inside

When I look in the sky, I see freedom

If you look in my eyes, you’ll see love deep inside

When I look in the sky, I see freedom

It’s gonna be you and me

When you’re feeling free make you feel alive

What you got inside make you go outside

The change in I, it’s the realest high

It’s the realest high

Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah, oh-yeah

It’s gonna be you and me

When you’re feeling free make you feel alive

What you got inside make you go outside

The change in I, it’s the realest high

It’s the realest high

Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah, oh-yeah

It’s gonna be you and me

When you’re feeling free, make you feel alive

What you got inside make you go outside

The change in I, it’s the realest high

It’s the realest high

Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah, oh-yeah

It’s gonna be you and me

When you’re feeling free, make you feel alive

What you got inside make you go outside

The change in I, it’s the realest high

It’s the realest high

Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah, oh-yeah