[ti:Fly Away] [ar:Nelly] [al:The Longest Yard] [00:01.50]Free City [00:04.62]This is a shout out to every young brother ya know [00:07.17]Thats doin his thing right now [00:08.21]Keep ya head up... [00:09.36]He's walkin the yard wishin he had wings [00:12.83]Ya know so he could fly up out that joint [00:15.34]Man [00:15.87]If I could, fly away [00:19.01]Ooo and I wouldn't come back no more [00:20.87]I, I'd turn around, [00:22.12]Just to see you for the last time, [00:24.59]See, now I know [00:26.15]Hey, that it won't be easy [00:28.08]I done fought in a battle, and I done made it this far [00:30.04]I gotta few more feet, but its still the longest yard [00:32.85] [00:35.59] [00:36.08]Man, it's the longest yard I ever had to get in my life [00:37.96]And see my life ain't right, if my wife don't write [00:40.09]My dick cant eat if the fish don't bite [00:42.04]My raise the gross sales, like Mike and Nike [00:44.21]Now big brother almighty [00:46.13]I keep a gamma ray, i'ma G-5 G [00:48.20]Take a G-5 jeep, G-5 deep [00:50.22]Too some of their bare feet [00:51.57]And that jeep don't speak [00:52.69]Listen mayne they lock it down round herre [00:54.14]See body bag and gag and your found round herre [00:56.17]This as serious as it sound round herre [00:58.06]The guards guard the ground, 4 pounds round herre [01:00.21]And they ain't playin, they're just lettin you know [01:02.17]That anything they want to happen, nigga happen real slow [01:04.20]Get the word from upstairs, put you in that hole [01:06.12]I cant take it, I'm just ready to go [01:07.50] [01:07.92] [01:08.30]If I could, fly away [01:10.25]Ooo and I wouldn't come back no more [01:12.62]I, I'd turn around, [01:14.17]Just to see you for the last time, [01:16.57]See, now I know [01:18.17]Hey, that it won't be easy [01:20.23]I done fought in a battle, and I done made it this far [01:22.38]I gotta few more feet, but its still the longest yard [01:26.30]Yeah yeah, its still the longest yard [01:30.16]Uh uh, its still the longest yard [01:34.05]Um um, its still the longest yard [01:36.85]I done fought in a battle and I done made it this far [01:39.68] [01:40.03] [01:40.69]I'm in my cell 20 hours a day [01:42.17]And doin push-ups ever hour a day [01:43.84]Cause im tryin to keep the cobwebs away [01:45.17]Thats why im markin off the calendar days [01:46.60]Tryin to get it out of the way [01:48.61]And im just tryin to keep a piece of mine [01:50.19]And im gon shame a motherfucker with a piece of mine [01:52.18]Cause he tryin to take a piece of mine [01:54.00]So im gon slice his ass a piece at a time [01:55.87]But now that they close the door [01:57.44]Lock me in and cell 30 deep but its built for 10 [02:00.06]Tell me what kind of world they got you in [02:01.94]With the barbed wire fences, box u in [02:04.13]>From now, til they turn off the lights [02:06.06]I'ma read anything in sight [02:08.50]Its kinda hard tryin to read at night [02:09.96]But I'ma change my life [02:10.57]And hope another brother take this flight [02:12.01] [02:12.36] [02:12.79]If I could, fly away [02:13.77]Ooo and I wouldn't come back no more [02:16.69]I, I'd turn around, [02:18.13]Just to see you for the last time, [02:20.46]See, now I know [02:22.16]Hey, that it won't be easy [02:24.47]I done fought in a battle, and I done made it this far [02:26.02]I gotta few more feet, but its still the longest yard [02:30.15]Yeah yeah, its still the longest yard [02:34.62]Uh uh, its still the longest yard [02:39.08]Um um, its still the longest yard [02:40.95]I done fought in a battle and I done made it this far [02:42.38] [02:42.81] [02:44.43](Oohh no) I gotta make it out this place some how [02:48.17](Oohh no) Man I really believe that I done turned it around [02:50.29](Oohh no) You see, all I need is that second chance to show, [02:57.39]since I crossed the ration, my obligation of rehabilitation [03:00.99](Oohh no) They can punch me high, and they can kick me low [03:15.62] [03:15.98] [03:46.58]