X] Being here in America doesn't make you an Being born here in America make you an American Why if made you an American you wouldn't need any legislation You wouldn't need any to the Constitution I don't see any dream, I see an American nightmare I'm one of the 42 million people who are the victims of America
Aiyyo we all in together now, all in now Hard truth soldierin, truth soldier SHIT Keep on 'em, cause you know we do work Mashin in my Chevy down the streets of New York, they me I grip, and hit up the spot Snatch Flav as my dual pipes up the block We hardcore, heavyweight, b-boy blast On the street they my beat, my 69 is fast Smash down Lennox, head up to the Some reporter wanna holla and I it was cool Wanna know the album and the Enemy's new How P.E. and Guerilla is keepin it movin Breakin bread talkin politics, you how it go 'Bout the war and how it's that we murder for dough Then the reporter a question, that I had to mash How, I act if every day was maybe my last How if every day I worried my family in this I'd be murdered on these street in a puddle of Or if I would get news that my brother had died If ran up in my house and held my kids and my wife Or if we was looted and somebody all our thangs If my was abducted, never heard from again I began to compare it, so he could When I made the parallels with how livin abroad I ignore it, these pigs ride deep in the streets Cap a nigga for his wallet, beat another for And the cold part about it, is cheaper than that Down people on the bottom kill each other for scraps Imagine that, propoganda got the people Damned by the media that keep 'em I been the world, seen a lot of shit in my life Same sirens, same ghetto birds at night racism, profilin each of us all Same outsiders we live enforcin the law Gats clappin on the streets, with heat Same full of brothers herded in like sheep Same turncoats that'll folks for pay Same conditions in we die everyday Same brutality and ignorance, now what will it to break the motherfuckin cycle, get the away? That's why I'm fresh out of tears for 'em, all out of for 'em Even my heart goes out, what the fuck you cryin 'bout? Money for rebuilding but, about home? When the way we live is shitty the love for our own? I can't it, it's real, I hit you with proof Maybe be suicided cause I hit you with truth See they kill for less than what we say on to you the message in the music from a rebel to you, now listen
[Outro: x6 to Save my life you gotta, save my you gotta [x3] Save us, us