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ABOUT THIS TRACK:

Poetic: This song has a common feeling we all get in the winter here in the Midwest: cabin fever, restless, wanting to break away from our struggles and go somewhere with palm trees and beaches...

This song is about a struggling young female that was brought up with false hopes and abusive surroundings. Yet with every reason to fail she still keeps hope alive, determined to be free from social barriers.

Yo..we all wanna break free from the winter so it's only right we started the EP out like this....

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LYRICS:

Yo… She wanna be freed. She wanna be free…
Put her mind at ease. And let her hair just float in da breeze.
She wanna be freed…She wanna be free.
Then give her to me…and let her get lost wit ( basement diaries )
1:00min
Her she is again running from her problems
parents can’t solve em.. add to her situation.
Works 2 jobs trying to get an education.
No hand outs, breaks, vacation
just stuck , down on her luck without a buck
Contemplatin way ta escape her destination
often looks at planes just drifts.
With her third eye seeing better dan dis. (inhale)
Holding in….. da smoke from a spliff.
Low key as she walk by the kids..
Give’s em quick nod. Let ‘em know what it is..
Times hard.. Yet time heals scars.
Like a testament.. she just kept right on stepping wit
a piece of pride… Even though she was wreckless.
At least she ain’t out hooking for a necklace..
And if it ever in her plan to settle for a man…hmmm.. than God bless him.
1:47sec..
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1:57Next HooK…..
Yo… She wanna be freed. She wanna be free…
Put her mind at ease. And let her hands just float in da breeze.
She wanna be freed…She wanna be free.
Then give her to me…let her get lost wit ( basement diaries)

2:19
When she get her chance……..even if there’s trouble
She”ll never be dancing wit da devil.
She gunna give into the bass & the trebille.
And float away in her own lil bubble.
To a different frame of mind….
She;s tired of all the pain dat co exist inside
no longer want her last name or anything
that gunna reflect the shame from her past days
She gunna just let the rain wash it all away
Fed up, wit/ wasted time spent looking out da window pain
ready to spark dat fire in_side her
new times.. Colliding wit a New vibe
So….Let da tires rotate to a landscape
sumn like blue skys sippin my tais
with her toes in the sand letting time fly
Finally felling good to have no plans
Thinkn I’m Content where I am
…Hot damn….I’m free

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from Basement Diaries Vol. 3 - Words of a Generation, released March 11, 2011

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