DONT PULL YOUR LOVE

Don't pull your love out on me, baby

If you do, then I think that maybe

I'll just lay me down, cry for a hundred years

Don't pull your love out on me, honey

Take my heart, my soul, my money

But don't leave me here drowning in my tears

You say you're gonna leave, gonna take that big white bird,

Gonna fly right out of here without a single word

But you know you'll break my heart when I watch you close that door

Cause I know I won't see you anymore

Don't pull your love out on me, baby

If you do, then I think that maybe

I'll just lay me down, cry for a hundred years

Don't pull your love out on me, honey

Take my heart, my soul, my money

But don't leave me here drowning in my tears

Haven't I been good to you, what about that brand new ring?

Doesn't that mean love to you, doesn't that mean anything?

If I threw away my pride and I got down on my knees,

Would you make me beg you "pretty please"?

Don't pull your love out on me, baby

If you do, then I think that maybe

I'll just lay me down, cry for a hundred years

Don't pull your love out on me, honey

Take my heart, my soul, my money

But don't leave me here drowning in my tears

There's so much I want to do

I've got love enough for two

And I'll never use it, girl, if I don't have you

Writer/s: BRIAN POTTER, DENNIS EARLE LAMBERT

FREEDOM

I am just a black man 
Walking around with a childish dream 
I recall all through life I struggled 
I couldn't get anyone in my dreams to see 

Slave to a corrupt political system 
Slave to employment without retirement benefits 
Slave to inequality and tyranny 
Every day I watched glimpses of my dreams die 

Whenever I walk out of the door 
I never forget a brother rotting in jail 
I never forget a mother sexually bruised 
A girl child betroth into early marriage

They say I am free because I have an education 
I am free because I found shelter in an orphanage 
I can afford to have a three square meal 
I can walk on the street without been maimed 

But every day I am scared of been intimidated 
Unprecedented policies depriving the people's need 
Like a congregation blindly addressed 
By a prophet with unquestionable misdeed 

This is what is found in the world today 
I could never be pronounced free 
Not until the day I take a hit 
Only a dead man can truly be free 

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UNFLAWED

When I pull up a pen and sheet of paper

The thoughts that run through my mind

Literally cannot be defined

Despite memorizing them in my heart

Blood shed clotting my vision

Hatred caressing my mind

Tears of the lonely struggle

Weakness of a man with pride

No one knows what I have being through

Dreams broken; shredded into pieces

Tossed away into the sea to drown

An attempt by the world to shut me down

Watch me closely once your eyes are wide open

Like a bright light shining above the sky

My dreams and visions cannot die

Not as long I can spare a drop of breath 

Some call me hypocrite; some say I am a loser

But the end will justify the means

I don’t make promises I cannot keep

Who are you to judge me?

I could never get to my peak

The sun always shining down at me

In life, I could only beat myself up

Betraying the sacrifices of a mother

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