[00:00.00]American Terrorist (feat. Matthew Santos) - Lupe Fiasco/Matthew Santos
[00:04.52]Close your mind
[00:06.58]Close your eyes See wit your heart
[00:10.80]How do you forgive the murderer of your father
[00:15.56]The ink of a scholar is worth a thousand times more
[00:19.94]Than the blood of a modern terrorist
[00:26.16]We came through the storm
[00:28.08]Nooses on our necks
[00:29.44]And a smallpox blanket to keep us warm
[00:31.69]On a seven forty seven
[00:32.60]On the pentagon lawn wake up
[00:35.20]The alarm clock is connected to a bomb
[00:37.74]Anthrax slab on a west virginia farm
[00:40.54]Shorty ain't learned to walk
[00:41.83]Already heavily armed
[00:43.37]Civilians and little children is especially harmed
[00:46.12]Camoflauged Torus Bibles and Glorious Quarans
[00:49.21]The books that take you to heaven
[00:50.56]And let you meet the lord there
[00:52.06]Heavy commerce interpretated reasons for war fare
[00:54.96]Reread 'em the blind as gaurantee you there's more there
[00:57.93]Rich must be blind 'cause they ain't see the poor here
[01:01.83]Need to open up a park
[01:03.23]Just closed ten schools we don't need em'
[01:05.12]Can you please call the fire department
[01:07.63]They down here marchin for freedom
[01:09.14]Burn down they tipi's
[01:10.02]Turn they tv's on to teach and move
[01:13.08]The more money that they make
[01:14.27]The more money that they make
[01:15.57]The better and better they live
[01:18.72]Whatever they wanna take
[01:20.14]Whatever they wanna take
[01:21.45]Whatever whatever it is
[01:24.33]The more that you wanna learn
[01:25.56]The more that you try learn
[01:26.85]The better and better it gets
[01:29.50]American Terrorist
[01:35.26]Now the poor Ku Klux man see that we all brothers
[01:37.95]Not 'cause things the same
[01:39.16]But 'cause we lack the same color
[01:41.09]And that's green
[01:42.01]Now this man can't burn his cross
[01:44.38]'Cause he can't afford the gasoline
[01:46.83]Now if a M****m woman
[01:47.80]Strapped wit a bomb on the bus
[01:49.59]Wit the seconds runnin' give you the gitters
[01:51.52]Just imagine an American based
[01:53.62]Christian organization
[01:54.75]Planning to poison water supplies
[01:56.77]To bring the seconds come quicker ni**a
[01:59.27]They ain't living properly
[02:01.28]And offer no democracy
[02:04.24]Turn they whole culture to a mockery
[02:06.74]Give 'em coka cola fo' they property
[02:09.57]Give 'em gum Give 'em guns
[02:10.88]Get 'em young Give 'em fun
[02:12.27]But if they ain't given it up'
[02:13.89]Then they ain't getting none
[02:15.55]And don't give 'em all
[02:16.69]Naw man just give some
[02:18.27]It's the paper
[02:18.90]Some of these cops must be Al-Kaida ni**a uhh
[02:22.03]The more money that they make
[02:23.09]The more money that they make
[02:24.88]The better and better they live
[02:27.81]Whatever they wanna take
[02:29.14]Whatever they wanna take
[02:30.68]Whatever whatever it is
[02:33.52]The more that you wanna learn
[02:34.72]The more that you try to learn
[02:36.15]The better and better it gets
[02:38.69]American terrorist
[02:45.29]More money that they make
[02:46.58]The more money that they make
[02:47.70]The better and better they live
[02:50.89]Whatever they wanna take
[02:52.04]Whatever they wanna take
[02:53.79]Whatever whatever it is
[02:56.62]The more that you wanna learn
[02:57.75]The more that you try to learn
[02:59.23]The better and better it gets
[03:01.58]American terrorist
[03:05.27]It's like don't give the black man food
[03:08.83]Give red man liquor
[03:10.51]Red man fool black man ni**a
[03:13.62]Give yellow man tool make him railroad builder
[03:16.07]Also give him pan make him pull gold from river
[03:19.09]Give black man crack glocks and things
[03:21.91]Give red man craps slot machines
[03:24.51]Now bring it back bring it back bring it back
[03:26.67]Bring it back bring it back bring it back
[03:28.70]Bring it back bring it back
[03:30.23]Don't give the black man food
[03:31.82]Give they red man liquor
[03:33.39]Red man fool black man ni**a
[03:36.05]Give yellow man tool make him railroad builder
[03:39.23]Also give him pan make him pull gold from river
[03:41.95]Give black man crack glocks and things
[03:44.57]Give red man craps slot machines
[03:47.52]Now bring it back bring it back bring it back
[03:49.62]Bring it back bring it back bring it back
[03:51.62]Bring it back bring it back
[03:54.46]American American terrorist
[04:17.57]American American American American
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