Virginia Tech
Columbine
Katrina
Iraq
Afghanistan
Breast Cancer
AIDS
Drug Abuse
Immigration
Our Senior Citizens
America
All we askin'
America the Great
See us
Love us again
33 dead and they ain't see it comin' Lord
Everyday Dogg Shays hat pulled over
his eyes Y'all ain't see him cry Lord
Columbine Lord They ain't see it comin'
Murder video games Black trench coat
His parents ain't see his pains runnin' I ask you God to forgive em
They know not what they do But God this America for once
Please listen How were you?
They lost,
they blind They horse too young to be strong
They from a neglectful and hurtful time Lord If we forget our prayers
How does his parents do our kids suffer?
It's America the home of the free, the brave
I love you Beautiful ball playin' girls called out they
name Now they turn us rappers givin' us the final
blame for change Oprah An American soldier in Iraq I need him home
Lord It don't make our country cowards let Iraq
solve they problems on they own I beg you Mr. President hear my song
Make your final days in office great
Writin' your greatest song in Iraq
America hear me
America feel me
Do you feel me?
America the time has come for us to wake up
And face the fact that the weight's on us
America hear me Hear what I'm sayin' to ya
America feel me Feel me
America the time has come for us to wake up
And face the fact that the weight's on us
Take my strength,
my heart,
my children,
my greatness and my rap Lord
See my son,
he just like me So if you take me one day when you're breathin' slow
You'll see him, when you see him you'll see me
It's crazy at 3 years old he look me
in my eyes And say dad I got you back
The way the world is I believe that I need that
He up at 3 in the morning like me I pray
he don't have a trouble soul like me
He ready to die hard cold like me, no
He walk, it's walkin', he walk it all alone
I laugh at him, it's cute, he only three
But he walkin' so strong
It's like he know one day he'll be walkin' by himself
And daddy won't be there
Cause I'll probably catch those cars I was dealt
That's a lot to put on a child that don't know he a child
I gotta teach and watch both the ones that don't speak and do smile
And even the ones that walk with a Bible and teach the Bible
That don't mean there's a sight for the
devil was once God's greatest angel son
America hear me,
hear what I'm sayin' now America feel me,
feel what I'm sayin' now
America,
the time has come for us to wake up,
wake on up And face the fact that the weight's on us
America hear me,
America feel me, feel me America,
the time has come for us to wake up
And face the fact that the weight's on us America stand up
This is America,
the greatest country in the world We
losin' our youth to violence and to drugs
We losin' our greatness to racism We losin' our greatest gift,
our women
To AIDS and breast cancer America stand up
We didn't ask for Katrina nor tornadoes Lord,
I don't question your decisions
I'm just fightin' my religion Lord,
immigration laws
It'll send back the bad and also the good
America,
color should never vanish from a
neighborhood The wounded comin' back,
will we ignore them again,
huh?
Or will it take a Clint Eastwood movie to show us our sin,
Lord?
Whole folks forgotten in this country
Remember when they were young folks,
they the reason we got this country America stand up
America hear me,
America feel me, feel America,
the time has come for us to wake up,
wake on up And face the fact that the weight's on us
America hear me,
America feel me, feel me America,
the time has come for us to wake up
And face the fact that the weight's on us America stand up