Salymah IV - Caged Bird Sings Lyrics

I know why the caged bird sings, little room to fly big wings
It's easier to see when you believe, look up to the sky big dreams

Walking through them corridors guards violated
Staring me down as I waited they full of hatred
Shoes off through the detectors and sign them papers
Pat downs under my hijab had to take it
Over screening knowing visitation time wasting
Overcomplicated listening to our conversations
Wonder why they hating then had to face it
Cause she ain't got no body all the inmates hate her
Real life shawty I can't make this up
Extra perfume Spritz on smell me when we hug
Solely came to this place to show you love
This whole system got agendas but I won't budge
So I'ma see it through do what I gotta do just to be with you
Me and you against it all cause I believe in you
Whole time they were full of hatred
We were reaching pinnacles in sunken places
I remember you this just an interlude

I know why the caged bird sings little room to fly big wings
It's easier to see when you believe look up to the sky big dreams
I know why the caged bird soars because he couldn't fly once before
It's easier to see when you believe I know why the caged bird sings

Loving my family through a looking glass cause of my crooked past
Daddy wasn't there to keep me straight took a crooked path
Was smart enough to move away I knew it couldn't last
But things always come back around by now it's simple math
Took my punishment like a man but my little girl cried
Soon as my little world changed, I'm back at the starting line
So I found the time to clear my mind so I can fly high
So we can go from alright to sky high
I've been counting stars in the night time
While I'm waiting on my time to reunite with my kind
And bye bye cause these four walls they are not mine
For now I sit and jot lines and tell you about the dreams and the fears
That's in my mind sitting in visitation
I escaped the matrix but soon all the pretty birds back to their cages
Back to the basics can't get complacent
No matter how it goes know it's all what we make it
I know why the caged bird sings, little room to fly big wings

It's easier to see when you believe
Look up to the sky big dreams
I know why the caged bird soars
Because he couldn't fly once before
It's easier to see when you believe
I know why the caged bird sings
I know why the caged bird sings little room to fly big wings
It's easier to see when you believe
Look up to the sky big dreams