[Chorus: Aceyalone]   Some birds don't deserve to be caged   They gotta fly away and search for the waves   Bein locked up is worse than the grave   I live by the words on the page - I know!   Some birds don't deserve to be caged   They gotta fly away and search for the waves   Bein held down is worse than the grave   I live by the words on the page - I say!      [Aceyalone]   I jumped on the planet and I landed on both feet   Tippy-toed across the continent, on the dope beat   Settled in the mainland ghetto by the sand trap   Rocked to a handclap until I got my band back   Thoughts came thick in a ball of confusion   A wall of belusion it's all so amusin   I laughed at the pain sometimes with a straight face   Just another hate case, you control your fate Ace!   Long walks down the lonely road turned path paved   Bask in the cascade, grey clouds circle me   Tuned to the channel so their energy will work on me   All in the cut like surgery and burnt to the third degree   internally, avoid an away story   40 and slip of tongue, tryin to bring the poison noise   Step in the spot like I'm not that popular   Eyes like binoculars, I'm so Hip-Hopular   Been on the air since Greg had a Mac attack   Now they all CrackerJack, that's a fact, smell me   How can you tell me what I haven't already heard   Forty-three, 43rd, listen and observe   First flew the coop when they tried to cage a rocking bird   Lookin for the truth in the booth when I serve   Never clip the wings if they seem a little out of touch   Let 'em fly free please, don't try to box 'em up      [Chorus]      [Aceyalone]   I open a lot cause I smash it with brute force   Flew over the roof, headed North on a crash course   Eagle eyes spot 'em all, groundhog peekin out   Stickin out against the whack world while they freakin out   Wasn't 'sposed to go but I just didn't wanna wait   Been had a ticket but the Chattanooga's runnin late   Hate never had a lover good as I been to her   Couldn't put an end to her, cause she got followers   Whole flock of spitters and swallowers, wow   Intregrity didn't have a home 'til I gave him one   {?} and diamonds, God said say no more   Find a piece of mind like a needle in the haystack   Grind on the real on the playback, ready for the at-tack   Seatack, cry me a riverboat   If I don't fly back, still gotta give 'em hope   Stand and delivery, first class rain or shine   Pain of mine in a pantomime glass chilled   Where was your genie when you needed her for real   Buildin my art from the parts that they overlooked   Fuse lit from the last match in the book   Stand in adrenaline, pumped through the resevoir   Plucked out the air cause he didn't sit duck   Pretty as the peacock who can't even leave the ground   Let the heart glide on, don't buy the muck      [Chorus]