Freedom Of Speech Lyrics by Ice-t

Freedom Of Speech Lyrics

    Intro

    A-yo ice, man. i'm working on this term paper for college. what's the
    First amendment?

    Verse 1

    Freedom of speech, that's some motherfuckin' bullshit
    You say the wrong thing, they'll lock your ass up quick
    The fcc says "profanity - no airplay"?
    They can suck my dick while i take a shit all day
    Think i give a fuck about some silly bitch named gore?
    Yo pmrc, here we go, raw
    Yo tip, what's the matter? you ain't gettin' no dick?
    You're bitchin' about rock'n'roll, that's censorship, dumb bitch
    The constitution says we all got a right to speak
    Say what we want tip, your argument is weak
    Censor records, tv, school books too
    And who decides what's right to hear? you?
    Hey pmrc, you stupid fuckin' assholes
    The sticker on the record is what makes 'em sell gold
    Can't you see, you alcoholic idiots
    The more you try to suppress us, the larger we get

    Verse 2

    [you have the right to remain silent]
    Fuck that right! i want the right to talk
    I want the right to speak, i want the right to walk
    Where i wanna, yell and i'm gonna
    Tell and rebel every time i'm on a
    Microphone on the stage cold illin'
    The knowledge i drop will be heard by millions
    We ain't the problems, we ain't the villains
    It's the suckers deprivin' the truth from our children
    You can't hide the fact, jack
    There's violence in the streets every day, any fool can recognise that
    But you try to lie and lie
    And say america's some motherfuckin' apple pie
    Yo, you gotta be high to believe that
    You're gonna change the world by a sticker on a record sleeve
    Cos once you take away my right to speak
    Everybody in the world's up shit creek

    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, mccarron-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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