Flying High

How you gonna grow if you don't leave your zones
The world is yours you own it so roam it
How you gonna grow if you don't leave your zones
The world is yours blood you own it so roam it
How you gonna grow if you don't leave your zones
The world is yours you own it so roam it
How we gonna grow if we don't leave our zones
The world is ours blood we own it let's roam it
I was born in prison was given birth in ball and chains
Grew up a prisoner my whole life I had been enslaved
Every action every thought restricted by restraints
Did what I was forced to do a product of my cage
Until the day I looked down at my hands
Saw them shackles on my wrist
Saw the bars around my life and knew that this aint all there is
Focused my energy balled my hands up into fists
Shattered my shackles ripped my cage up into bits
I stood there for a second not knowing what to do
The first time that a choice was mine beyond all I had ever knew
First time I had felt it the strength of being free
From that moment all I ever did was up to me
Grabbed life with my two hands ran with it
Any chance came my way man did it
To the fullest and greatest extent
Living like I aint ever gonna be here again
Man's travelled
Man's journeyed
Man got back what I earned me
Seeing things that I've never seen
Going places I chose to be
I've climbed mountains
Sailed seas
Stood on trees on rainforest canopies
Looked down on the clouds from above
High flying with no plane no drugs
I've watched the sun setting slow above the Himalayas
Blessing my soul and my spirit with some inner layers
Built with soldiers scholars sages
From different places races ages
Learnt from each phase each stage
Embraced the lessons life gave
New lands new cultures new peoples
We all want freedom we equal
One life one love one blood
Only man made barriers dividing us up
Got back to Mama Africa
Blood I made it home
Never felt that way before or since
Anywhere I've roamed
To touch the land with my own hand where my family tree was grown
Blessed by the most high with this freedom
The greatest gift I've ever known
Everyone who's hearing this who knows it's real
What it's like to break out prisons keeping you concealed
You know how I feel
New meaning to your life
Rebirth after you've died
New sun in a new sky
Flying high
Everyone who's had a taste of being free
Who's shook them shackles off and felt all that relief
Everyone who's never felt it now's your time
Shake off them shackles feel the vibe
Flying high
Everyone who's hearing this who knows it's real
What it's like to break out prisons keeping you concealed
You know how I feel
New meaning to your life
Rebirth after you've died
New sun in a new sky
Flying high
Everyone who's had a taste of being free
Who's shook them shackles off and felt all that relief
Everyone who's never felt it now's your time
Shake off them shackles feel the vibe 'til you
Flying high
There's only one way to be independent
There's only one way to be free
It's not something that someone gives to you
It's something that you take
Nobody can give you independence
Nobody can give you freedom
Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything
If you're a man you take it
If you can't take it you don't deserve it
I made moves like Malcolm made inside his jail cell
Looked within and beyond inside that living hell
Done what was needed making moves until the walls fell
Writing my future with my words the way that I spell
Now I make moves across this Earth like Malcolm made inside his mindstate
Giant steps a giant stands where once a giant slept
Shook off all mistakes all my fears all my regrets
They only stay with me as scars to look at
Learn from and to not forget
Who I am and where I'm from while I choose where I'm going
Every step I take the path I'm making keeps on growing
So do my mind and soul body muscles heart and spirit
Work for what you want
You get back what you give it
Push yourself past all your own and past all other's limits
Your time on earth is only short if you don't truly fill it
Make the most of every second every minute
Create you purpose
Learn that life is only how you live it
Everyone who's hearing this who knows it's real
What it's like to break out prisons keeping you concealed
You know how I feel
New meaning to your life
Rebirth after you've died
New sun in a new sky
Flying high
Everyone who's had a taste of being free
Who's shook them shackles off and felt all that relief
Everyone who's never felt it now's your time
Shake off them shackles feel the vibe
Flying high
Everyone who's hearing this who knows it's real
What it's like to break out prisons keeping you concealed
You know how I feel
New meaning to your life
Rebirth after you've died
New sun in a new sky
Flying high
Everyone who's had a taste of being free
Who's shook them shackles off and felt all that relief
Everyone who's never felt it now's your time
Shake off them shackles feel the vibe 'til you
Flying high