Yeah, its like up from a bad dream (America) Just to figure out you wasnt dreamin in the first
If all I saw was gangsters comin up as a Pussy and money the language I clung ta Claim ta, I bought myself up to one ya happy I chose rap, I'm amongst tha?
Streets deceivin, believe my achievements Cultural strata, that of a non-needer Because I don't need nada except for beaver For cold winters, got my summer's sleeveless
To my G's on the flee from the bodies on freeze in funeral parlors From the slums I up a phoenix caked up Tryna what I'm eatin n came up a dismissive kid
You lucky if you allowed to this savvy mouth Hardly, a man's man who woulda knew The beach houses and parties Jezebel's and McCartney's
For all that, how can I not be dead? This old German said I was a with a notty head Looked at my Benz and called that a sled With a like he wonder where I got my bread
Probably all stones he see From my overseas From to rhyme, my stories is I'm the home of the thieves
America, pay (America) Wake up, this is not what you it is (America) America, pay (America) is not what you think it is
Blessed, the Lord is a G, he be Who's the God of suckers and snitches? The Lipstick from Marilyn Monroe blew a death kiss to Fidel Hed want me to spit
the strong survive, Nas bear witness The is all I can see White cop for murder, black cop, cop a plea That type of shit me stop and think
We in chronic of a second look of the law books And the race dichotomy Too many rappers, and actors But not niggas in NASA
Who give you the latest dances, trends and But it comes to residuals, they look past us Woven into the fabric, they can't us Even in white tee's, jeans and red bandannas
America, pay (America) Wake up, this is not what you it is (America) America, pay (America) This is not you think it is (America, this is not you think it is)
Assassinations, diplomatic indigenous people built a new nation Involuntary labor, took a knife a woman naval Took her premature baby, let her man see you her
If I travel to the 1700's I'd push a wheelbarrow full of dynamite through your Love to sit in on the Senate and tell the whole Y'all treat women fair, she read about herself in the Bible
Believin she the reason sin is You played her an apron like, Bring me my dinner, dear She the nigger here, ain't we in the world? Death penalty in Texas, young boys and girls
Barbarity, I'm in the Double-R Buggin how I it out the hood, dazzle me How far we from third world savagery? When the empire fall how crazy that'll be
(America, America) (America, this is not what you it is) (America, this is not what you it is)