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Album: War & Leisure (2017)
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  • CEO of the free world now
    Build your walls up high and wide
    Make it rain to keep them out
    That won't change what we are inside

    Pick the fruit of your labor
    Cultivate, plant your seeds now and watch them grow
    Man, I'll holla at you later
    Let you find out what you're made of
    Just saying

    Is that the look of freedom, now?
    Is that the sound of freedom, now?
    'Cause it's plain to see a man's integrity
    By the way he treats those he does not need
    And it's time we talk about it
    Let's not waste our common ground
    We will fall for standing and watching, all in silence
    Dear Lord, are we numb? Where we going right now?

    No, not later, no, no, no, not later
    Oh, right now, oh, right now
    Now, not later, no, not later
    No, no, no, not later
    This can't wait, now

    CEO of the free world now
    Should we teach our children hatred?
    Chase the inner cities, shoot them down
    It's like we're still running races
    I'm just saying

    Is that the look of freedom, now?
    Is that the sound of freedom, now?
    'Cause it's plain to see a man's integrity
    By the way he treats those when he don't need them
    And it's time we talk about it
    Let's not waste our common ground
    We will fall for standing and watching, all this silence
    Dear Lord, are we numb? Where we going right now?

    No, not later, no, no, no, not later
    Oh, right now, oh, right now
    Now, not later, no, not later
    No, no, no, not later
    Oh right now, oh right

    Now, now, now
    Now, now, now
    Now or never, we can work together
    Now, now, now
    Now, now, now
    We only suffer what we allow

    Now, now, now
    For all the people
    In Puerto Rico
    Way down in Houston
    In Flint, Michigan
    And standing right here
    Way down in New Orleans
    For all of the dreamers
    The black lives that we've lost right now
    Now, now
    This can't wait, no
    Ooh, right now
    Now, now, now, now
    Now, now, now

    We are the look of freedom, oh
    We are the sound of freedom
    We are the look of freedom
    We are the sound of freedom Writer/s: CHARLES THOMPSON, MIGUEL JONTEL PIMENTEL, NATHAN PEREZ
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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