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