X] Being in America doesn't make you an American Being born here in America make you an American Why if birth made you an you wouldn't need any legislation You need any amendments to the Constitution 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 truth soldierin, hard truth SHIT Keep on servin 'em, cause you we do work Mashin in my Chevy down the streets of New York, they me I smooth grip, and hit up the Snatch Flav as my dual burn up the block We bumpin hardcore, heavyweight, blast On the street they hear my beat, my 69 is 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 Guerilla is keepin it movin bread talkin politics, you know how it go 'Bout the war and how it's shitty we murder for dough Then the reporter asked a question, that I had to How, I would act if every day was my last How if day I worried 'bout my family in this I'd be murdered on these street in a of piss Or if I would get some news that my brother had If they ran up in my house and held my and my wife Or if we was looted and somebody all our thangs If my sister was abducted, heard from again I began to compare it, so he could When I made the parallels with how livin abroad I can't ignore it, these 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 each for scraps Imagine that, propoganda got the confused Damned by the media that 'em subdued I been around the world, seen a lot of in my life Same sirens, ghetto birds swirlin at night Same racism, each of us all Same where we live enforcin the law Gats on the streets, gunplayin with heat Same prisons full of brothers herded in sheep Same that'll burn folks for pay Same conditions in we die everyday Same brutality and ignorance, now 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 my heart goes out, what the fuck you cryin 'bout? Money for rebuilding but, about home? When the way we live is shitty where's the for our own? I can't decide it, it's real, I hit you with Maybe I'll be cause I hit you with truth See they kill for less than what we say on to you the message in the music from a rebel to you, now listen
[Outro: x6 to Save my life you gotta, my life you gotta [x3] Save us, us