X] Being here in America doesn't you an American Being born here in America doesn't you an American Why if birth made you an American you wouldn't need any You need any amendments to the Constitution I don't see any dream, I see an American nightmare I'm one of the 42 black people who are the victims of America
Aiyyo we all in now, all in together now Hard truth soldierin, hard truth SHIT Keep on servin 'em, cause you know we do Mashin in my Chevy down the streets of New York, they me I grip, and hit up the spot Snatch Flav as my dual burn up the block We bumpin hardcore, heavyweight, b-boy On the street hear my beat, my 69 is fast Smash down Lennox, head up to the Some reporter holla and I said it was cool Wanna know about the and the Enemy's new How P.E. and Guerilla Funk is keepin it bread talkin politics, you know how it go 'Bout the war and how shitty that we murder for dough Then the reporter asked a question, that I had to How, I would act if day was maybe my last How if every day I worried 'bout my in this I'd be murdered on these street in a of piss Or if I would get some that my brother had died If they ran up in my house and held my kids and my 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 they livin I ignore it, these pigs ride deep in the streets Cap a for his wallet, beat another for free And the cold part about it, is cheaper than that Down there people on the bottom kill other for scraps Imagine that, propoganda got the people Damned by the media that keep 'em I been around the world, a lot of shit in my life Same sirens, ghetto birds swirlin at night racism, profilin each of us all Same where we live enforcin the law clappin on the streets, gunplayin with heat Same prisons full of herded in like sheep turncoats that'll burn 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 That's why I'm out of tears for 'em, all out of tears 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 where's the for our own? I decide it, it's real, I hit you with proof I'll be suicided cause I hit you with truth See they kill for less than what we say on to you Hear the 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