American Dream

Ever since day one
Somebody probably say you wouldn't be nothin'
I bet they told you this over
And over again on repeat like a re-run
Nobody ever told you you could live up
To anything you want don't give up
They rather tell you you're destined for failure
That's what they tell you
But you just say
What about martin
What about garvey
What about rosa
What about malcolm
What if somebody told 'em they would never be nothin'
And they believed this think about the outcome
Would we even be the way we are today
Even if it weren't could have been a harder way
Even though we lost a lot of people on the way
Had to sacrifice to get us in a better place
I hope you listen to these wizzords
All they want us thinking about is sipping on some sizzurp
And they got us thinking something better we don't deserve
And that we shouldn't try it's no use
But that couldn't be further from the truth
Don't believe it that's what they told me too
When I was growing up they told me
They told me that I wouldn't make it too far
And when I got a little older
They told me they told me yeah
That I wouldn't be anything
That's what they told me they told me
When we were little ones
That's what they told me they told me
We're supposed to be kings and queens
That's what they told me they told me they told me
When we don't believe them
That's what they told me they told me
Trying to live the american dream
They see the ballers and celebrities
As a reminder of the people they would never be
Jealousy got them sick without a remedy
Thinking when I die nobody's gonna remember me
I was told that nobody care
So the dreams that I had turned to nightmares
Cause this thing called life really ain't fair
Need help but it ain't there
See you know it's really hard to stay dedicated
When the bottom screaming they was never educated
On the come up getting high just to medicate it
Cause the teachers just told him he would never make it
Now he feeling like he made it cause he stuck in paper
But probably won't let him spend the money later
Nobody ever told us we could be greater
To everybody on the ground in the paper chasers
I hope you listen to these wizzords
All they want us thinking about is sipping on some sizzurp
And they got us thinking something better we don't deserve
And that we shouldn't try it's no use
But that couldn't be further from the truth
Don't believe it that's what they told me too
When I was growing up they told me
They told me that I wouldn't make it too far
And when I got a little older
They told me they told me yeah
That I wouldn't be anything
That's what they told me they told me they told me
When we were little ones
That's what they told me they told me
We're supposed to be kings and queens
That's what they told me they told me they told me
When we don't believe them
That's what they told me they told me
Trying to live the american dream
That's what they told me they told me they told me
They'd rather see me dead never gone make it
They'd rather see me fail never gonna be anything
They'd rather see me in jail you're never gonna be shit
Everybody die you ain't shit
But not everybody lives but not that somehow
We gotta get out of this
When did you tell me shit
You just gotta tell yourself
That somehow I'mma make it