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 wouldn't need any You wouldn't need any amendments to the I see any American dream, I see an American nightmare I'm one of the 42 black people who are the victims of America
Aiyyo we all in now, all in together now truth soldierin, hard truth soldier SHIT Keep on servin 'em, cause you we do work in my Chevy down the streets of New York, they feel me I smooth grip, and hit up the Snatch Flav as my dual pipes up the block We hardcore, heavyweight, b-boy blast On the street hear my beat, my 69 is fast down Lennox, head up to the 'View Some reporter wanna holla and I it was cool Wanna know the album and the Enemy's new How P.E. and Funk is keepin it movin bread talkin politics, you know how it go 'Bout the war and how it's shitty that we for dough Then the reporter asked a question, that I had to How, I act if every day was maybe my last How if day I worried 'bout my family in this I'd be murdered on these street in a puddle of Or if I would get some news that my had died If they ran up in my house and held my and my wife Or if we was looted and somebody took all our If my sister was abducted, heard from again I began to compare it, so he could When I made the parallels with how they abroad I can't ignore it, pigs ride deep in the streets Cap a nigga for his wallet, beat for free And the cold part about it, life is cheaper that Down there people on the bottom kill other for scraps Imagine that, got the people confused by the media that keep 'em subdued I been the world, seen a lot of shit in my life Same sirens, same ghetto swirlin at night racism, profilin each of us all Same where we live enforcin the law clappin on the streets, gunplayin with heat Same prisons full of herded in like sheep Same that'll burn folks for pay Same conditions in communities we die brutality and ignorance, now what will it take to break the motherfuckin cycle, get the people That's why I'm out of tears for 'em, all out of tears for 'em Even though my heart goes out, what the fuck you 'bout? Money for rebuilding but, about home? the way we live is shitty where's the love for our own? I decide it, it's real, I hit you with proof Maybe I'll be suicided cause I hit you with See they kill for than what we say on records to you Hear the message in the music a rebel to you, now listen
x6 to end] Save my life you gotta, save my you gotta [x3] Save us, us