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 American you 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 of America
Aiyyo we all in together now, all in now Hard truth soldierin, hard soldier SHIT Keep on servin 'em, you know we do work Mashin in my down the streets of New York, they feel me I smooth grip, and hit up the Flav as my dual pipes 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 holla and I said it was cool Wanna know the album and the Enemy's 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 that we murder for dough the reporter asked a question, that I had to mash How, I act if every day was maybe my last How if every day I worried my family 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 house and held my and my wife Or if we was looted and somebody took all our If my sister was abducted, never heard again I began to compare it, so he could When I made the parallels with how livin abroad I can't ignore it, pigs ride deep in the streets 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 other for scraps Imagine that, propoganda got the confused Damned by the media that 'em subdued I been around the world, a lot of shit in my life Same sirens, same ghetto birds at night Same racism, each of us all Same outsiders we live enforcin the law Gats clappin on the streets, gunplayin heat Same prisons of brothers 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 the motherfuckin cycle, get the people away? 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, what 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 cause I hit you with truth See they kill for less than we say on records to you the message in the music from a rebel to you, now listen
[Outro: x6 to my life you gotta, save my life you gotta [x3] Save us, us