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Verse 1
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America spend
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s millions of dollars each year to help other countries when
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America itself is falling apart.
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There are so many killings
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going on in
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America today, but everyone
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seems to turn away from
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it.
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Clinton himself is not addressing the
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problems within the neighborhoods.
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The only crimes that you're seeing on
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TV are those committed by the gangs,
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by the blacks,
by the
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Hispanics, and that's it.
But there are so many other
problems in
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America.
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What happens when an innocent 16 -year -old
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knocks on the wrong door by mistake an d is
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gunned down with a .44
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Magnum and the killer is set free?
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Is this
America I'm living in?
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I really don't know.
I think
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America has lost it and we
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are truly falling apart.
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We need tighter gun control and
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we need better places to stay.
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The finger always seems to be pointed at
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the man that can't get a job, the ones
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that's on the street,
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and the people that are lost in this system.
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You see,
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America
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shows you this shiny pole made of
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stainless steel and they call this the
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ladder of success.
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But what
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America is not telling you
is that once you reach
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the top.
It's so greased down,
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it's very hard to hold on.
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And I often find myself
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slipping back in to reality and facing
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the same problems that I had to face as
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a youngster.
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Sure, we've all made mistakes.
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And when you become a failure to
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America has a system that does
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away with people.
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They call it prison. I call it
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Every time I wake up and realize exactly what's going on,
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I get so paired up with
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till I don't know what to do.
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I've come to the point that
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when I see the
American flag,
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I get so sick until I wish
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I was from another country.
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I'm not proud of
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America, mainly because
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America isn't proud of itself.
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If you don't have an education,
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you will find it very hard to accomplish anything in life.
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It's very good to stay in school
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and get an education.
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But what about the people that
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can't afford an education?
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America spends so much money on foreign
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affairs and never spends anything on
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America itself.
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We are truly falling apart,
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and I'd like for
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President
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Clinton and all our other leaders
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to take time and realize that there's people like me
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stuck in the ghetto where I didn't
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have an opportunity to do anything
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better than what I did in life.
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I don't want my kids to grow up selling drugs,
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killing, robbing, or any of this stuff, but
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This is the direction that
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America has my little boy,
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your little boy, your girl,
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and everyone part of it too.
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America lets the drugs in,
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put the drugs in the black
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community,
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and let us sell drugs.
And once we sold the drugs,
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America locks us up for
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long periods of time.
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And while we are there incarcerated,
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there are no programs to
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rehabilitate you.
And then
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America sets you back on the street
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after going 14 years and expect for
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you to be able to survive.
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Is this truly what
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America is all about?
I don't really understand.
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Sometimes I find myself
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living in a fantasy world,
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trying to make
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America better than what it really is.
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Sure, I'm an
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American, but I must first be a black
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Afro -American
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so I can identify with myself
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an d realize the things that
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America has planned for me.
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an d then I could gain and
use my strategy on
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America itself.
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So
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Clinton, an d to all our so -called
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black leaders of the world,
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let's get together and
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get this thing right.
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Not only for the blacks, but for
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America.
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