Yeah, its like wakin up a bad dream (America) Just to figure out you wasnt in the first place
If all I saw was comin up as a youngster Pussy and money the only I clung ta Claim ta, I bought myself up to one Ain't ya happy I rap, I'm amongst tha?
Streets deceivin, believe 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 sleeveless
To my G's on the flee from the Stiff bodies on in funeral parlors From the I come up a phoenix caked up Tryna take what I'm n came up a dismissive kid
You lucky if you allowed to this savvy mouth Hardly, a man's man who woulda knew The houses and wild parties and Stella McCartney's
For all that, how can I not be dead? This old German said I was a thug with a notty Looked at my Benz and called a Nazi sled With a face like he wonder I got my bread
all these stones he see From my overseas From crime to rhyme, my is I'm from the 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 is a G, he gotta be Who's the God of suckers and snitches? The Lipstick from Marilyn Monroe blew a kiss to Fidel Castro Hed me to spit this
Only the strong survive, Nas witness The is all I can see White cop acquitted for murder, black cop, cop a That of shit make me stop and think
We in need of a second look of the law books And the whole race Too rappers, athletes and actors But not enough in NASA
Who give you the latest dances, and fashion? But when it comes to residuals, they past us Woven into the fabric, they can't us in white tee's, blue jeans and red bandannas
America, pay (America) Wake up, this is not you think it is (America) America, pay (America) is not what you think it is (America, this is not what you it is)
Assassinations, relations Killed indigenous people built a new Involuntary labor, took a knife split a woman Took her 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 and tell the whole government Y'all don't treat women fair, she about herself in the Bible
she the reason sin is here You played her with an like, Bring me my dinner, dear She the nigger here, ain't we in the world? Death in Texas, kill young boys and girls
Barbarity, I'm in the Double-R Buggin how I it out the hood, dazzle me How far we really 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 you think it is)