X] Being here in doesn't make you an American Being born here in America make you an American Why if birth you an American you wouldn't need any legislation You wouldn't need any to the Constitution I see any American 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 truth soldierin, hard truth soldier SHIT Keep on servin 'em, cause you we do work Mashin in my Chevy down the streets of New York, feel me I grip, and hit up the spot Snatch Flav as my dual pipes up the block We bumpin hardcore, heavyweight, b-boy On the street hear my beat, my 69 is fast down Lennox, head up to the 'View Some reporter wanna and I said it was cool Wanna know about the album and the new How P.E. and Guerilla Funk is keepin it Breakin talkin politics, you know how it go 'Bout the war and how it's shitty that we murder for Then the reporter asked a question, that I had to How, I act if every day was maybe my last How if every day I worried 'bout my in this I'd be murdered on these street in a puddle of 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 looted and took all our thangs If my sister was abducted, never heard from I began to it, so he could observe When I made the parallels with how livin abroad I can't ignore it, these pigs ride deep in the Cap a for his wallet, beat another for free And the part about it, life is cheaper than that Down there people on the bottom kill each for scraps Imagine that, propoganda got the people Damned by the media keep 'em subdued I been around the world, seen a lot of in my life Same sirens, same ghetto swirlin at night Same racism, each of us all outsiders where we live enforcin the law Gats on the streets, gunplayin with heat prisons full of brothers herded in like sheep Same turncoats burn folks for pay Same conditions in communities we die Same and ignorance, now what will it take to the motherfuckin cycle, get the people away? why I'm fresh out of tears for 'em, all out of tears for 'em Even though my heart out, what the fuck you cryin 'bout? for rebuilding but, what about home? When the way we is shitty where's the love for our own? I can't decide it, it's real, I hit you with Maybe be suicided cause I hit you with truth See they kill for than what we say on records to you Hear the message in the from a rebel to you, now listen
x6 to end] Save my life you gotta, save my life you [x3] Save us, us