@migu music@

You can kill me if you can

But the last thing you need's another dead man.

Writing with black ink on your page

And I swear that death won't kill my rage.

For it'll take more to hold my tongue

Than your prison and your knives and your clubs and your guns.

I don't want no peace prize

I will not do what you say's wise

I'm a birdman but there's no cage

That's strong enough to hold my rage.

I don't want no peace prize

I will not do what you say's wise

I'm a birdman but there's no cage

That's strong enough to hold my rage.

Now John Henry told his captain,

That a man ain't nothing but a man

But before I let this machine grind me down

I'll die with my hammer in my hand.

So the birdman told his jailor

A man ain't nothing but a man

But before I let your system grind me down

I'll die with my gun in my hand.

I don't want no peace prize

I will not do what you say's wise

I'm a birdman but there's no cage

That's strong enough to hold my rage.

Those bells do ring, ding dong ding

And I don't fear no guard.

When freedom come maybe with a gun

Outside in the prison yard.

I'm a birdman, oh watch me fly.

I'm a birdman, death, sweet death,

She can't hold me.