Alexander O'Neal The Yoke song lyrics

If you seek with open eyes and mind

Anything you're looking for you'll find

I'm just out here searching for respect

Keep reaching for the top I'll be the best

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Let the yoke off my back, gonna use my Intellect

To get the yoke off my back

Gotta get the yoke off my back, give myself a chance

Get the yoke off my back

Gotta get upon the rhythm, get up

Gotta get upon the rhythm, get this yoke off my back

It's not whips and chains that make a slave

It's the power of the rhythm in the brain

Can't live everyday locked in a trance

Gotta break this bondage to have a chance

Don't like oppression, don't like rejection, I like perfection

A clear perception

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Gotta get this yoke off my back, gonna give myself a chance

To get this yoke off my back

Gotta get this yoke off my back, gonna use my intellect

To get this yoke off my back

I gotta getup on the rhythm, getup

I gotta get upon the rhythm, get this yoke off my back

I gotta get upon the rhythm, get up I gotta get upon the rhythm, get this yoke off my back

I gotta get upon the rhythm getup I gotta get upon the rhythm, get this yoke off my back

I gotta get upon the rhythm, get up I gotta get upon the rhythm, get this yoke off my back

I feel a lot hotter when the yoke is off my back

(1st rap):

Get up on the rhythm, the only key to freedom

Mental state of being, all seeing

You've been holding me back for too long

The time is now, to sing my song

How long will the years of oppression

Stop progression that is the question

I refuse to lose or housed by the YOKE no joke

(2nd rap):

Now tell me do you see what I see

Who says we're free, in this society

Things have changed but I still feel chained down

It's all the same, rearranged, my skin's still brown

Tight as a rope now cut me some slack

What is this thing that's been placed on my back?

Why does the YOKE want to leave me for dead?

Think for a second it's all in your head.

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It you want me to pull ya, I'm not a mule

I'm not a beast at burden

I'm not your average fool and it you ever need to know, what's going on

Let me open up your eye's before the view is gone

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