Wake Me When I’m Free Lyrics

* Poems written by Shakur as ~ interpreted by other artists

[Babatunde Olatunji]
Please.. wake me when I am free
I cannot bear captivity

Where my country, I am told, "Hold no significance"
I waited and died in ignorance

But my inner eye can see, a race
Who reigned as king in another place
The green trees were rich and full
And every man spoke of beautiful men and women together as equals

War was gone because all was at peace
But now like a nightmare, I woke to see
That I live like a prisoner of poverty..


Please.. wake me when I am free
I cannot bear captivity

For, I would rather be stricken blind
Than to live without expression of mind


{*Babatunde Olatunki begins to speak in another language*}

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Tupac’s poems were written from 1989 to 1991 and were uncovered only after his death with the book the rose that grew from concrete: a collection of all his 72 poems.
Recordings by other artists of different generations and genres are put together in: The rose that grew from concrete, vol.1 and The rose, vol.2.

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November 21, 2000
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