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2002 · From the album MTV Unplugged No. 2.0

I Get Out

by Lauryn Hill

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03 · Lyrics

"I Get Out"

I get out

I get out of all your boxes

I get out

You can't hold me in these chains

I'll get out

Father, free me from this bondage

Knowin' my condition is the reason I must change

Your stinkin' resolution is no type of solution

Preventin' me from freedom

Maintainin' your pollution

I won't support your lie no more, I won't even try no more

If I have to die, oh Lord, that's how I choose to live

I won't be compromised no more, I can't be victimised no more

I just don't sympathize no more

'Cause now I undertand, you just wanna use me

You say love then abuse me

You never thought you'd lose me

But how quickly we forget

That nothing is for certain

You thought I'd stay here hurting

Your guilt trips just not working repressing me to death

'Cause now I'm choosing life yo

I'll take the sacrafice yo

If everything must go then go, that's how I choose to live

Ok, we gettin' here

At least I had a chunk

Ok it's how I choose to live

No more compromises

I see past your disguises

Blinding me through mind control

Stealing my eternal soul

Appealing through material, to keep me as your slave

But I'll get out

I get out of all your boxes

I get out

Oh you can't hold me in these chains

I get out

Oh I want out of social bondage

Knowing my condition is the reason I must change

See what you see is what you get, oh and you ain't seen nothing yet

Oh I don't care if you're upset, I could care less if you're upset

See it don't change the truth

And your hurt feelings no excuse

To keep me in this box, psychological locks

Repressing true expression, cementing this repression

Promoting mass deception, so that no one can be healed I don't respect your system

I won't protect your system

When you talk I don't listen, Oh let my fathers will be done

And just get out

Just get out of all this bondage

Just get out

Oh you can't hold me in these chains

Just get out

Of these traditions killing freedom

Knowing my condition is the reason I must change

I just accepted what you said

Keeping me among the dead

The only way to know

Is to walk then learn then grow

But faith is not your speed

Oh you'd have everyone believe

That you're the sole authority

Just follow the majority

Afraid to face reality

The system is a joke

Oh you'd be smart to save your soul, and escape this mind control

You spend your life in sacrifice to a system for the dead

Oh are you sure, where's the passion in this living

Are you sure it's God you're serving

Obligated to a system, getting less than you're deserving

Who made up these schools I say

Who made up these rules I say

Animal conditioning, just to keep us as a slave

Just get out

Of this social purgatory

Just get out

Oh these traditions are a lie

Just get out

Superstition killing freedom

Knowing my condition is the reason I must die

Just get out, just get out, just get out, just get out, just get out

Knowing my condition is the reason I must die

Just get out

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04 · FAQ

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When was "I Get Out" released?
"I Get Out" by Lauryn Hill was released on May 7, 2002 on the album "MTV Unplugged No. 2.0".
What genre is "I Get Out"?
"I Get Out" by Lauryn Hill falls within the rap, hip hop, soul genres.
What album is "I Get Out" on?
"I Get Out" appears on the album "MTV Unplugged No. 2.0" by Lauryn Hill.
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