I Belong (feat. Haillie)
Griot B
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This land is your land This land is my land From California To New York Island From the redwood forest To the gulf stream waters This land, belongs To me and you I belong I belong I belong I belong We started as a statement taken from the enlightenment Self evident for those who were writing it Life liberty and pursuit of happiness If your skin was white and if you owned a home with a wife in it Our country tis of thee, a land lacking liberty, Black lives mattered only while they were building things, Considered property, profit but what's bittersweet is We're the chocolate where this melting pot get is flavoring Manifest Destiny sea to sea Spread west replaced natives that roamed free Took their land and send them to reservations We believed God gave us the authority Then we invite the Chinese, who came to this country for opportunity , They built the railroads with the black folk who were Increasing profits and allowing us to speed to west from east We started an intentional War Took Mexican land and claimed it as ours Manifest destiny, our God's will to have We spilled indigenous blood soaked up the red with our flag The Irish came the Italians too - some hated that The nativist told these group to go sailing back To their country but they charged up our economy Like batteries working industrial factories Social darwinism placed limits on races That could enter through Ellis Based on a system that ranked Intelligences and ethics By measuring skull shape of the races We through Japanese Americans in cages, took their land Muslims want to come in peace, instead we placed a ban Countries that have citizens of color were undesirable for immigration Now like back then But The pilgrims immigrated The Irish immigrated Italians immigrated Germans immigrated They came to land with the plan To gain prosperity through hard work or innovation Today it seems we make the mistake Of forgetting U.S constitution rights are based Not by religion, wealth and not by race But by birth in this place, this is our fate If you're human natural rights can't be taken away Inalienable even if you're alien to these states Freedom of speech to question government was the mission Of patriots questioning the government of Britain. Freedom of religion , You don't have To be christian You dont have to have a house that a nuclear family all lives In You dont have to be straight love your own way You dont have to love guns or pray how I pray You can speak your truth, truly cus the truth of this song Each and every one in this room, you Belong
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