Yeah, its like up from a bad dream (America) Just to figure out you dreamin in the first place
If all I saw was comin up as a youngster and money the only language I clung ta Claim ta, I bought up to become one Ain't ya happy I chose rap, I'm tha?
Streets deceivin, can't my achievements Cultural strata, persona's of a non-needer Because I don't need nada except for Prada For cold winters, tattoos got my summer's
To my G's on the from the coppers Stiff bodies on in funeral parlors From the I come up a phoenix caked up take what I'm eatin n came up a dismissive kid
You lucky if you to witness this savvy mouth Hardly, a man's man who woulda knew The beach and wild parties Jezebel's and McCartney's
For years all that, how can I not be This old German said I was a thug with a notty Looked at my Benz and that a Nazi sled With a face like he wonder where I got my
Probably all stones he see From my shows crime 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 you think it is
Blessed, the Lord is a G, he be Who's the God of and snitches? The economy Lipstick from Marilyn Monroe blew a death kiss to Castro Hed want me to spit
Only the 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 need of a second look of the law books And the whole dichotomy Too rappers, athletes and actors But not enough in NASA
Who give you the latest dances, trends and But when it to residuals, they look past us Woven into the fabric, they stand us Even in white tee's, jeans and red bandannas
America, pay (America) Wake up, this is not you think it is (America) America, pay (America) This is not you think it is (America, is not what you think it is)
Assassinations, diplomatic Killed indigenous built 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 and tell the whole government Y'all don't treat fair, she read about herself in the Bible
Believin she the sin is here You played her with an apron like, Bring me my dinner, She the nigger here, ain't we in the free penalty in Texas, kill young boys and girls
Barbarity, I'm in the Double-R how I made it out the hood, dazzle me How far we really from world savagery? the empire fall imagine how crazy that'll be
(America, America) (America, this is not you think it is) (America, is not what you think it is)