Yeah, its like wakin up a bad dream (America) Just to figure out you dreamin in the first place
If all I saw was comin up as a youngster Pussy and money the only language I ta Claim ta, I bought up to become one Ain't ya happy I rap, I'm amongst tha?
Streets deceivin, can't my achievements Cultural strata, persona's of a non-needer Because I need nada except for Prada beaver For cold winters, tattoos got my sleeveless
To my G's on the flee from the Stiff bodies on in funeral parlors From the slums I come up a phoenix 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 and Stella McCartney's
For years all that, how can I not be This old German said I was a with a notty head Looked at my Benz and that a Nazi sled With a like he wonder where I got my bread
Probably all stones he see From my shows From to rhyme, my stories is I'm the home of the thieves
America, pay (America) Wake up, this is not you think it is (America) America, pay (America) This is not what you it is
Blessed, the is a G, he gotta be Who's the God of suckers and The economy Lipstick from Marilyn Monroe blew a death to Fidel Castro Hed want me to this
the strong survive, Nas bear witness The is all I can see White cop acquitted for murder, cop, cop a plea That of shit make me stop and think
We in chronic need of a look of the law books And the race dichotomy Too many rappers, athletes and But not enough in NASA
Who give you the dances, trends and fashion? But when it comes to residuals, look past us Woven into the fabric, they can't us in white tee's, blue jeans and red bandannas
America, pay (America) Wake up, is not what you think it is (America) America, pay (America) is not what you think it is (America, this is not you think it is)
Assassinations, relations Killed indigenous people a new nation labor, took a knife split 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 of dynamite through your covenant Love to sit in on the Senate and tell the whole Y'all don't women fair, she read about herself in the Bible
she the reason sin is here You played her an apron like, Bring me my dinner, dear She the nigger here, ain't we in the free Death penalty in Texas, young boys and girls
Barbarity, I'm in the casually Buggin how I it out the hood, dazzle me How far we really from third world the empire fall imagine how crazy that'll be
(America, America) (America, is not what you think it is) (America, is not what you think it is)