Amerikkka (Explicit)-Chaz French/Eddie Vanz

[ti:Amerikkka (Explicit)] [ar:Chaz French/Eddie Vanz] [al:True Colors] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.01]Amerikkka (Explicit) - Chaz French/Eddie Vanz [00:00.02]Written by：Chaz French/Kavon Eccles/Miles Franklin [00:00.03] [00:00.84]I say god bless America America [00:04.86] [00:07.83]I say god bless America America [00:12.03] [00:14.68]Sweet dreams America America [00:20.42] [00:21.94]Yea ok people say I'm too honest holding onto a promise [00:25.54]Just an open book full of novels [00:26.76]Fairy tales full of sorrows [00:28.38]On negatives I don't ponder [00:29.59]Stay at peace with my conscious [00:30.97]Stayed prayed up we gone prosper [00:32.43]Got to peep game let it wander [00:33.90]Got to crawl before you start walking [00:35.26]Yea not unless you ahead of time [00:36.79]My first step was me jogging [00:37.95]My memories sweet chin music [00:39.50]Let's kick sh*t Sean Michaels [00:40.85]Got a beer with me Steve Austin [00:42.41]Got to stay woke all eyes open [00:43.74]They don't want to see us move forward [00:45.23]Got a book bag full of CDs call justice for Mr. Alton [00:47.75]We a hundred deep at each market [00:49.27]And the police get first dibs for their [00:51.27]Grandparents and their partners [00:52.29]Screaming f**k 12 we don't cop peace [00:53.90]We don't eat pigs too often [00:55.10]It's a system built to stop us like why my brothers keep dying [00:57.87]Yea why these babies got to grow up with no fathers [00:59.87]To look up to man it's happening too often [01:01.96]We tired counting our losses we tired hanging out coffins [01:04.84]We tired of knowing that in America being [01:06.65]A black man is being cautious [01:07.77]Yea too many single mommas on this side [01:10.06]Yea there's way too many lies being televised [01:12.61]Why they can kill and go home and eat with their family [01:14.86]Meanwhile Mr. noble just got 13 years for 2 grams of w**d [01:18.22]It's way too many double standards on this side [01:21.18]We just seen two black men get killed on Instagram [01:23.70]Wish I could put Jesse Williams's speech on this song [01:26.55]And change the world for the better what we got to do we fed up [01:29.96]God bless America America [01:32.68] [01:33.49]A land that's not so free [01:35.42]Said god bless America America [01:38.56] [01:39.18]Please take those chains off me [01:40.90] [01:41.46]Pray for America America [01:44.09] [01:44.70]Let my people breathe [01:46.72]Being black in America America [01:49.58] [01:50.24]Is a dangerous thing to be [01:52.16]Yea I said I think us as a people should show [01:54.09]Some unity before an act of violence [01:55.77]I think we should march hand in hand without it being a riot [01:58.66]I feel like somebody shouldn't have to die for us to come together [02:01.10]See the more we become organized it ain't sh*t that they can tell us [02:04.26]I know you hate us I know you f**king hate us I see it [02:06.97]I know you intimidated you just imitating the sh*t that you see [02:09.47]That's how your parents raised ya and that right [02:11.45]There has become a routine [02:12.60]So am I next should I ever have to reach for my id [02:15.44]Man it's beyond the police [02:16.49]We got to show every boy an girl [02:18.20]Man and women that we all precious in god's sight [02:20.36]Whether black or white red or blue we're all human [02:22.61]We just need humanity and a little bit of justice in this short life [02:25.93]Just put yourself in our shoes said put yourself in Trayvon's hoodie [02:28.48] [02:28.98]Put your hands up like mike brown be 12 [02:31.08]With a bb gun or armed and fit the profile [02:33.21]Man this sh*t is unbearable the list can go on and on [02:35.91]Are they really hearing us you know they got fear in us [02:39.00]It's not what we want just want to be seen as equal [02:41.91]Together let's keep the peace [02:43.25]Said god bless America [02:44.43]God bless America America [02:45.98] [02:46.77]The land that's not so free [02:48.83]Said god bless America America [02:52.29]Please take those chains off me [02:54.81]Pray for America America [02:57.96]Let my people breathe [03:00.08]Being black in America America [03:03.13] [03:03.73]Is a dangerous thing to be [03:05.42] [04:23.29]Try making happy music when you ain't happy [04:25.85]Try uplifting your people when you're at your lowest [04:28.32]Try keeping your belief stronger [04:29.80]Than while hiding every bit of doubt [04:31.40]You got in your heart hoping god don't notice [04:33.80]No this this ain't a cry for help man all I need is an ear [04:36.52]And when the inspiration ain't striking all I need is the spare [04:38.95]Time from you if really do care and if you're willing to hear [04:42.17]Cause people always got sh*t to say [04:43.70]But it ain't as wise as the listener [04:45.16]Yea I know it take a while to get in line [04:47.06]I'm d rose leave the b******t right in the nick of time [04:49.81]I need closure not selfish though [04:51.00]All I need is piece of mind I need loads of it [04:53.42]Love we need more of it the world we don't know of it [04:56.11]Need to lift my spirits hop in the Uber and go soul searching [04:58.81]Even if the surge is a million plus I'm all in for it [05:01.57]My mama and my kids still living what I need friends for [05:04.26]My brothers feel the same way I feel that's what I got them for [05:06.98]My lows ain't never been this high [05:08.43]Not really complaining cause my karma ain't never been this good [05:11.01]Hard to explain when finding the thinnest line between everything that's alright [05:14.67]And abundant sacrifice that could possibly change your life [05:17.51]Said I woke up to a song from the birds [05:19.44]Walked outside I seen a sunflower grow from the concrete [05:22.19]I looked up seen a lightening bug glowing in broad day [05:24.95]That's when it hit me that fear is just and illusion inside me [05:27.55]I know my life is beyond me I see my worth everyday [05:29.94]I know my people there's heartbreak written all over your face [05:32.75]I went a bought me a mustard seed to remind me of faith [05:35.51]And I'll kick Satan in his a** tell struggle pardon its way [05:38.21]No I won't let you kill my dream like you did martin [05:40.71]What's an American dream when you can't dream in America [05:43.78]No don't sleep on that balcony they assassinate characters [05:46.17]Had to drink a brew or two I swear that sh*t is unbearable [05:49.12]But I'm the living proof of a better you [05:51.27]From the letter u falling down and getting back up [05:53.38]Its righteous it makes for a better you [05:54.80]It's time to rewrite history [05:55.81]This time we'll pick a better noose instead of [05:57.80]Putting it around your neck [05:58.77]We gone dangle our success in front of every soul [06:00.76]Whose heart is grown apart of our neglect [06:02.48] [06:03.31]Oh darling [06:04.06] [06:05.19]I just pray you think about me before it's too late [06:09.37] [06:10.60]I just pray you make it back home [06:14.43] [06:15.96]All you got to do is let me know when you're on the way [06:20.18] [06:20.93]Cause the sun don't shine on this side this side too much longer