Headlines today simply read American dreams shattered
(Mr Lif)
As the woe of the common man grows I suppose I should flow
Think of all the things that we should know
The hood grows out to the burbs
Too many words to describe how we got and what we didn't deserve
The nerve of these leaders to cheat us danglin the sweetest opportunities for home ownership then flip
Now it's over foreclosure
Four soldiers died in Iraq
Stumbled in the trap, ain't no bringin'em back
I'm swingin' that axe to chop off whatever pop off that NASDAQ dropped off and people
Pissed off fucked over overlooked overbooked for unemployment
Lost and ready to destroy shit b-boy shit
That's what i remain on
I stay strong
Call me up when they rain napalm
Your funding a war, but you can't fund us? and you plann'in to turn the planet to dust
I heard it today
I heard it
I heard it today
I heard it
It started when the planes hit home, then it really hit homes
Now we're out in the street with no shoes on our feet
So i turned to the beat
Keep my mental physique
Functioning at it's peak
Until you call me elite
Then i repeat the steps
Give some change to vets
They? as they caught us with debt
I step silent
In attempt to sidestep violence
Tap into my brain so i can remain timeless
I'm just out here tryin' to cope
Try to eat a little food
Try to buy a little smoke
Choke a couple politicians cuz i got a couple dollars missin'
Buy some lotion so my skin don't glisten
Missile hissin direct hit
When you didn't expect
All ordered by a president we didn't elect
So i'm hopin' that the DJ will give this some play
So the people that will listen can say
We heard it today
I heard it
I heard it today
I heard it
They were willing to give people with bad credit loans
Cuz they knew within a few years we're out of our homes
Then they could buy up the same properties they sold us
For the wealthy and maniacal, shit was a gold rush
They told us rates could fluctuate
But they didn't say they could spike
Now our credit is like
How we gonna get another place
Look at our face
Distressed at best
And yes anger manifest
When our president knows we're drownin' in the element
He really doesn't give a fuck
So we ask with hesitance
Bush offers only 1/10 of us paupers relief
They may or may not decrease grief
He'd rather help the lenders
Original offenders
They sent us off to get job number three
Humbly sacrificing education and healthcare
He'd rather just perpetuate the war cuz there's wealth in it
Health benefited heavily tinted windows of CEO's rooms remain closed
So they never have to listen to those who oppose the path that they chose
The slow economic woes
To prey upon our desperation
Instead of seeking elevation
Shit is catastrophic in my estimation
It happened during the republican reign
And some of y'all still went and voted McCain
I heard it today
I heard it
I heard it today
I heard it
I heard it today