X] Being here in America doesn't you an American born here in America doesn't make you an American Why if made you an American you wouldn't need any legislation You wouldn't need any amendments to the I don't see any American dream, I see an American I'm one of the 42 million black people who are the victims of
Aiyyo we all in now, all in together now Hard soldierin, hard truth soldier SHIT Keep on 'em, cause you know we do work Mashin in my 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 my beat, my 69 is fast down Lennox, head up to the 'View Some reporter holla and I said it was cool know about the album and the Enemy's new How P.E. and Funk is keepin it movin Breakin bread politics, you know how it go 'Bout the war and how it's shitty that we for dough Then the reporter a question, that I had to mash How, I would act if every day was my last How if every day I worried 'bout my in this I'd be murdered on these in a puddle of piss Or if I would get news that my brother had died If they ran up in my and held my kids and my wife Or if we was looted and somebody took all our If my was abducted, never heard from again I began to compare it, so he could When I made the parallels how they livin abroad I can't ignore it, these pigs ride deep in the Cap a nigga for his wallet, beat another for And the cold part it, life is cheaper than that there people on the bottom kill each other for scraps Imagine that, propoganda got the confused Damned by the media that keep 'em I around the world, seen a lot of shit in my life Same sirens, same ghetto birds at night Same racism, profilin of us all Same outsiders where we live the law clappin on the streets, gunplayin with heat Same full of brothers herded in like sheep Same turncoats burn folks for pay Same conditions in we die everyday Same and ignorance, now what will it take to break the motherfuckin cycle, get the people That's why I'm fresh out of tears for 'em, all out of for 'em though my heart goes out, what the fuck you cryin 'bout? Money for rebuilding but, about home? When the way we is shitty where's the love for our own? I can't it, it's real, I hit you with proof Maybe I'll be suicided cause I hit you with See kill for less than 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 life you gotta Save us, us