Yeah, its wakin up from a bad dream (America) Just to figure out you wasnt dreamin in the first
If all I saw was gangsters comin up as a Pussy and the only language I clung ta Claim ta, I myself up to become one ya happy I chose rap, I'm amongst tha?
Streets deceivin, can't believe my strata, persona's that of a non-needer Because I don't need nada except for Prada For cold winters, tattoos got my sleeveless
To my G's on the flee the coppers Stiff on freeze in funeral parlors the slums I come up a phoenix caked up Tryna take I'm eatin n came up a dismissive kid
You lucky if you allowed to witness this mouth Hardly, a man's man who woulda knew The beach and wild parties and Stella McCartney's
For all that, how can I not be dead? This old German said I was a thug with a head at my Benz and called that a Nazi sled With a face he wonder where I got my bread
Probably all stones he see From my shows From to rhyme, my stories is I'm the home of the thieves
America, pay (America) up, this is not what you think it is (America) America, pay (America) This is not you think it is
Blessed, the is a G, he gotta be the God of suckers and snitches? The economy Lipstick from Marilyn Monroe a death kiss to Fidel Castro Hed want me to this
Only the survive, Nas bear witness The is all I can see White cop acquitted for murder, black cop, cop a That type of shit me stop and think
We in chronic need of a look of the law books And the race dichotomy Too rappers, athletes and actors But not enough niggas in
Who give you the latest dances, and fashion? But when it comes to residuals, they past us into the fabric, they can't stand us Even in white tee's, blue jeans and red
America, pay (America) up, this is not what you think it is (America) America, pay (America) This is not what you it is (America, this is not you think it is)
Assassinations, relations Killed indigenous built a new nation Involuntary labor, took a split a woman naval Took her premature baby, let her man see you her
If I could travel to the I'd push a wheelbarrow full of through your covenant to sit in on the Senate and tell the whole government Y'all don't women fair, she read about herself in the Bible
Believin she the sin is here You played her an apron like, Bring me my dinner, dear She the nigger here, ain't we in the free penalty in Texas, kill young boys and girls
Barbarity, I'm in the casually how I made it out the hood, dazzle me How far we really from third world the empire fall imagine how crazy that'll be
(America, America) (America, this is not you think it is) (America, this is not you think it is)