Politix
22nd November 2002, 23:00
Chorus-
"Get a piece of the American Dream"
"Money, cars, the finer things"
"Love and happiness, and friends who care,
"F**k the American Dream, it's a nightmare"
Xtc
Rasing flags, saying we united, showing patriotism/
all the while there is discrimnation and racism/
push a flag to your face, but hold a gun to your back/
"United States of America" yet the "United" part we lack/
put up a front so other countries think that were the shit/
but what they don't see is the murders, rapist, and lunatics/
instead fighting battles oversea, we need to address the problems over here
but when theirs trouble in Iraq were the first ones to volunteer/
American Nightmare is the real thing that were spitten/
stop the violence and address the problems to the polticans/
*chorus*
Politix
The american dream really is a nightmare//
And I'm tellin you this, cause I'm thinkin you might care//
Uncle Sam was a mail man and they made him a symbol//
They make it not noticed cause they nimble//
George talkin bout makin' peace, while he bobmin' inocent people//
But to rich kids he seems all nice, cause its classified evil//
Citizens treated like speciemen under the microscope//
Rich caculating slopes, while the pov be sellin' dope//
Hope, like the walkin' kid on the block, with nothin' positive on his mind//
be kind, some spare change is the difference between school and crime//
Everyone in the ghetto be makin rhymes, breakin, or graffiti//
At the same time "Dubya" just forgot bout the peace treaty//
So what is the American dream? , Equality and freedom, it seems//
Non of the above, just a scheme made by a fascist regime//
*chorus*
Young Gambit
Red, white, and blue, but there's no black or brown on the flag/
Quick to brag gladly with smiles, but frowns surround my town/
But do my own country care when it's rare for us to achieve/
Just cause I don't have insurance I'm supposed to be left to bleed/
They say there's no cure for HIV or AIDS, but Magic's okay/
There's no money in the vaccine, so forty percent of my folks face the grave/
That's what I see on a daily basis, but will the government embrace this/
What can you tell the daughter that lost her father for robbin' a store just to feed her/
Forever to leave her because he couldn't afford nothin' more than a wife beater/
Increase chance, decrease crime, it's easy in my state of mind/
You add extra cameras to see everything, but basic living your blind/
It doesn't sum up but u knock kids for tryin' to come up/
Locked in jail without bail because he did what he had to do to live/
Yea it's easy to see my people on TV to be incarcerated, for life degraded/
But it'd all could've been solved maybe if he had a chance to be educated/
So u spend more in prisons then education juss to give us a vision of what we're facin'/
Switch places for seven days and I guarantee you'd be put in a physco ward pacin'/
*chorus*
"Get a piece of the American Dream"
"Money, cars, the finer things"
"Love and happiness, and friends who care,
"F**k the American Dream, it's a nightmare"
Xtc
Rasing flags, saying we united, showing patriotism/
all the while there is discrimnation and racism/
push a flag to your face, but hold a gun to your back/
"United States of America" yet the "United" part we lack/
put up a front so other countries think that were the shit/
but what they don't see is the murders, rapist, and lunatics/
instead fighting battles oversea, we need to address the problems over here
but when theirs trouble in Iraq were the first ones to volunteer/
American Nightmare is the real thing that were spitten/
stop the violence and address the problems to the polticans/
*chorus*
Politix
The american dream really is a nightmare//
And I'm tellin you this, cause I'm thinkin you might care//
Uncle Sam was a mail man and they made him a symbol//
They make it not noticed cause they nimble//
George talkin bout makin' peace, while he bobmin' inocent people//
But to rich kids he seems all nice, cause its classified evil//
Citizens treated like speciemen under the microscope//
Rich caculating slopes, while the pov be sellin' dope//
Hope, like the walkin' kid on the block, with nothin' positive on his mind//
be kind, some spare change is the difference between school and crime//
Everyone in the ghetto be makin rhymes, breakin, or graffiti//
At the same time "Dubya" just forgot bout the peace treaty//
So what is the American dream? , Equality and freedom, it seems//
Non of the above, just a scheme made by a fascist regime//
*chorus*
Young Gambit
Red, white, and blue, but there's no black or brown on the flag/
Quick to brag gladly with smiles, but frowns surround my town/
But do my own country care when it's rare for us to achieve/
Just cause I don't have insurance I'm supposed to be left to bleed/
They say there's no cure for HIV or AIDS, but Magic's okay/
There's no money in the vaccine, so forty percent of my folks face the grave/
That's what I see on a daily basis, but will the government embrace this/
What can you tell the daughter that lost her father for robbin' a store just to feed her/
Forever to leave her because he couldn't afford nothin' more than a wife beater/
Increase chance, decrease crime, it's easy in my state of mind/
You add extra cameras to see everything, but basic living your blind/
It doesn't sum up but u knock kids for tryin' to come up/
Locked in jail without bail because he did what he had to do to live/
Yea it's easy to see my people on TV to be incarcerated, for life degraded/
But it'd all could've been solved maybe if he had a chance to be educated/
So u spend more in prisons then education juss to give us a vision of what we're facin'/
Switch places for seven days and I guarantee you'd be put in a physco ward pacin'/
*chorus*