Holy Experiment (Lib City)

What is up!? Throw ya motherfucking hands up!

Philly Philly (Dilly Dilly) It’s our damn anthem

So throw them bottles up, we hold it down

Liberty City, USA hometown

Philly Philly (Lib City)

Philly Philly Liberty

Philly Philly (Lib City)

Yo, we throwing down in the hometown of liberty

Hop off that boat, I see vice in the streets, I’m liking this scene

Market Street teeming with bars, harlots, all types of, er... diversity

Experiment invented by William Penn, our eminent Friend

It was claimed he was the greatest lawgiver that God ever graced to Man

Jefferson said it, I merely came in and vibed with him, I’d ride with him

I tried to find a philosophy of my own life and get mine aligned with his

Born into wealth, wasn’t for him, joined the religious society of friends,

Age of twenty, daddy was pissed, hated hippie dippie pacifists

This activist was cast into prison for screaming his dream to be religiously free

Kicked out of England, king gave him a colony across the sea

Called it “Philadelphia” Brotherly Love in Greek,

Decreed all religions could come and worship independently

Big on equality, believed my faith with god should be between Her and me

But tolerance and equality seemed less realistic and more of a dream

These different religions sharing their innovation and creativity

As well as their prejudices, their fear, bias and their hate it would seem

Welp, that’s the way the cookie crumbles

Everytime we take a step forward, we’re go’n stumble

But growth is all about the bruises and bumps though

Pushback the pendulum swings, we grow some mo’

In Philly Lib City

Philly Philly Liberty

Philly Philly Lib City

Buncha loving brothers shoving in the crib of Liberty

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