[Intro]

(That sounds like Ozzy)

[Verse 1: JaWill]

I fell out the nest with a few broken bones and a fractured skull

Picked myself up through the ash and smoke, flyin' while I ash and smoke

Rings is catchin' fire while I'm flappin' home

Soar cross these lands and stones like Pat Mahomes

Toss me like he castin' stone, you niggas got some plastic notes

While this bird song make 'em listen like a pastor spoke

God took the form of this nigga just to ask you folks

Is flyin' really flyin' if before you go, you ask before?

It ain't no permission, on a mission when we takin' flights

Actin' like an eagle ain't gon' treat you when we take the sky

Leave you at the theater, get you left if you ain't playin' right

Your latest tunes is baby food, can't bite you with my appetite

Niggas ain't as half as nice

Bravado my motto, my pride is too big to swallow

These niggas too big and hollow, you see the music is bottled

From pain in lightnin' in bottles, take a sip, and take a hit of gelato

Hit the clip 'fore my eyes close, and let the wind carry

Been buried, dirt is on my face as a reminder

That the sin carried on through my age as a child

Now I'm sit in every single ounce of shame, stop complyin'

When I open up this cage, I'ma get back to flyin'

[Chorus: JaWill]

If the caged bird sings, then the caged bird's wings

Will carry this bird 'til the caged bird free

If freedom is the land the caged bird can't reach

Then life is not an option when that caged bird bleeds

If the caged bird sings, then the caged bird's wings

Will carry this bird 'til the caged bird free

If freedom is the land the caged bird can't reach

Then life is not an option when that caged bird bleeds

[Verse 2: Nuke Franklin]

Ayy, these ain't only verses I been scribin'

I been jottin' journal entries down, depictin' my environment

Preachin' gospel over sounds of copper sirens, pistols firin'

Been alignin' with my faith, the only thing that keep me grounded

'Til I'm six feet in the ground and dirt surround me

I give a blueprint to lil' Black kids, we on some new shit

Like how he do this, and how he do that, a mountain I stacked

Of dead white faces, but kept it pro-Black, you gotta know that

Been spooked by the doorstep, like fuck it, where the whores at?

A pistol I can blow at, I lay the gold on my neck

So I can flex on my set, that's how they want it, I guess

For fifty acres and mules, need reparations and jets

Figured they severed my wings, so that's the best I could get

They stripped us back, gave us minimum, so we settled for less

A different cage than my uncles, with both, they buried the key

These walls collapsin' on me, my only wish is be free

How we alive but ain't livin'? My eyebrows to the ceilin'

Redesignin' my heaven, ain't tryna die 'fore I get it

Penny pinchin' and timidness cultivated my lineage

Found the script, now I'm flippin' it, I'ma ball for my syndicates

Want it all for my niggas now

Reachin' out, tryna touch the sky, I been stretchin' my ligaments

From an auction block to the top of the tops, how I'm kickin' it

Flew right over agendas, I can't conform to no censorship

Ghetto Jesus, I'm really it, huh