Yeah, its like wakin up a bad dream (America) Just to figure out you dreamin in the first place
If all I saw was gangsters up as a youngster Pussy and the only language I clung ta Claim ta, I bought myself up to one ya happy I chose rap, I'm amongst tha?
Streets deceivin, can't my achievements Cultural strata, that of a non-needer I don't need nada except for Prada beaver For cold winters, tattoos got my summer's
To my G's on the from the coppers Stiff on freeze in funeral parlors From the slums I come up a phoenix up Tryna take what I'm eatin n up a dismissive kid
You lucky if you allowed to witness this mouth Wild? Hardly, a man's man who woulda The beach and wild parties and Stella McCartney's
For years all that, how can I not be old German said I was a thug with a notty head Looked at my Benz and that a Nazi sled With a face like he where I got my bread
Probably all these 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 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 Marilyn Monroe blew a death kiss to Fidel Castro 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, athletes and But not enough niggas in
Who you the latest dances, trends and fashion? But when it to residuals, they 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) This is not what you it is (America, this is not you think it is)
Assassinations, diplomatic Killed indigenous people a new nation Involuntary labor, took a knife split a woman her premature baby, let her man see you rape 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 government Y'all don't treat fair, she read about herself in the Bible
she the reason sin is here You her with an apron like, Bring me my dinner, dear She the here, ain't we in the free world? Death penalty in Texas, kill young boys and
Barbarity, I'm in the Double-R how I made it out the hood, dazzle me How far we really from third savagery? When the empire fall how crazy that'll be
(America, America) (America, is not what you think it is) (America, this is not you think it is)