Welcome To America
C.S. Armstrong, Black Thought, Angela Hunte
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Welcome to America Where you can dream, as long as you can breathe You can be the muthafuckin' President of United States Or get murdered right on these streets Welcome to America The sins of the father, my pop gave me to suffer The friends I would follow was crack babies and hustlas It's steel sharpen steel on the block, made me a cutler My pen is from the future like Octavia Butler (welcome to America) My grandmother sutured a flag from bloody cotton The fruits of her labor alas already rotten (welcome to America, yeah) My man said, "Yo, it's crazy how fast that we've forgotten" That we used to pull boxes and plows like we were oxen and cows Without an option, and now it's this glorious Victorious, story only pitched, for me to shut it down They sold some of us down the rivers It's such a poor level of thought, I get the shivers It's insidious and it's always been hideous I had to tread water and run, be amphibious They do you so dirty for one, yo what's cleanliness? It make you wanna let off a gun, until the emptiness like Preach now lover, preach now lover Got me runnin', runnin', runnin', runnin' Welcome to America Yo, I'm ill-fated and hated, I'm hella melinated Blackness is my religion, to that I'm dedicated (welcome to America) I follow the laws of nature, by which I'm regulated The universe, my university, I'm educated This one is for my very revolutionaries Out here keepin' it a hundred, even though the truth is heavy Who stand firmly and see that life is a journey That either God or the gurney, my public defender burned me So did the district attorney, in a turbulent trial They told me that time is master, well I'm servin' it now Tell my family I'll be makin' my return in a while And every symbol of oppression I'll be burnin' it down Welcome to America Where you can dream, as long as you can breathe You can be the muthafuckin' President of United States Or get murdered right on these streets Welcome to America Land of the brave, and home of the free You can be a saint or a sinner, or a billionaire Or just stand on your feet Welcome to America (Keep on runnin', runnin') America, oh Lord (Keep on runnin', runnin') Welcome to America (Keep on runnin', runnin') America, oh yeah 'Cause when it's over, the world ain't over What they say is what we'll do We have power, still have power And that's what we cannot lose Runnin' in the shadows, got my eye on the sparrow Tomorrow may not come, at least my soul felt this love If I let you go, at least my soul felt this love Hey now, hey now, hey now, hey now Now, a black soul never passes alone If its blood spilled on the ancestors ashes and bone From a pure heart, the Lord fashioned after his own We're packaged and flown to the essence of his African throne For every lost body, crossed, tarred, feathered, and tossed It's no way I could measure the course, or ever exhaust But whether it's yours or mine, this American clause Has never been solved, while history was runnin' its course I ran hard from Jamestown, where slaves Jesus and found Demons that never be charged with malfeasance, I sat Through they revival, although I never found credence, I found That we had never know shit about freedom I been charged with treason, I been scarred and freezin' I been called a nigga, and then called a heathen When hounds found me, they couldn't even tell if I was breathin' In America where on black man it's open season
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Written by: Tariq Trotter, Delano Matthews
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