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