X] Being here in doesn't make you an American Being born here in America doesn't 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 black people who are the victims of America
Aiyyo we all in together now, all in now Hard truth soldierin, hard soldier SHIT on servin 'em, cause you know we do work Mashin in my Chevy the streets of New York, they feel me I smooth grip, and hit up the Snatch Flav as my pipes burn up the block We bumpin hardcore, heavyweight, b-boy On the street they my beat, my 69 is fast Smash down Lennox, up to the 'View Some reporter wanna holla and I it was cool know about the album and the Enemy's new How P.E. and Guerilla Funk is keepin it Breakin talkin politics, you know how it go the war and how it's shitty that we murder for dough Then the reporter asked a question, that I had to How, I would act if every day was maybe my How if day I worried 'bout my family in this I'd be murdered on street in a puddle of piss Or if I would get some news that my brother had If they ran up in my and held my kids and my wife Or if we was looted and somebody took all our If my sister was abducted, never heard from I began to compare it, so he 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 cold part 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 that 'em subdued I been the world, seen a lot of shit in my life Same sirens, same ghetto birds swirlin at Same racism, each of us all Same outsiders where we live the law Gats clappin on the streets, gunplayin heat prisons full of brothers herded in like sheep Same turncoats that'll folks for pay Same in communities we die everyday Same brutality and ignorance, now will it take to break the motherfuckin cycle, get the people why I'm fresh out of tears for 'em, all out of tears for 'em Even though my goes out, what the fuck you cryin 'bout? Money for rebuilding but, about home? When the way we live is shitty where's the love for our I can't it, it's real, I hit you with proof Maybe be suicided 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 Save my life you gotta, save my life you [x3] us, save us