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I Am An American (Prod. By Jack Bandit)

from Catharsis by Crocker

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Produced by Jack Bandit.

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(Verse)
/Pentagrams, goats, and pagans/ Everyday folk'll claim em/Bring your shaman out to shame them/Tap the youth, mind enslavement/ Till they drop their bills and change in/Shuffle in, it's the arraignment/Dumb or smart, no child's behind/Fail at life or fall behind/In line, in line, in line/Waste your money, waste your time/ We will never forget September Eleventh/3000 plus, left to perish/Entered war based off the merit/Pearl Harbor based off the merit/Lusitania, the same, I swear it/Who profits off war? The Government!/(Who profits off war?/ The Government!/ /Bow your heads, say your prayers/ Protestants, say they care/ Muslim hands up in the air/ Bombs fall like rain, and we stare/ Mash on compassion, find your traction/ Pledge your love, and mind your faction/ Take pride in your tribe, that's all you got/ Least that's the word and thicks the plot/God & Allah ain't a pairing that's tight/ Nod to the Prez, he's swearin' he's right/Sound the alarm, and get the stereo tight/ And for God's sake, please stereotype/

(Hook)
I am an American/ United we stand, divided we fall/ I am an American/ Subsidize your pride, proprietors call/

(Bridge)
Now judge, judge, judge, judge/Divisions will never budge, budge/ Cops riddle bodies with slugs, slugs/Then they plant the drugs, drugs/

(Verse 2)
Police brutality's a staunch reality/ Not a hip topic or rap formality/ They hit Sean Bell with fifty shells/ A day before his own wedding bells/ Prejudice is like apple pie/ A part of our roots, and intertwined/ Prejudice is like apple pie, a part of our roots and intertwined/

(Speech)
I pledge allegiance to a country of immigrants that raped, plundered, and pillaged every village of the Native people. I pledge allegiance to a country that reveres Paul Revere and the rest of the rebels that deemed taxation without representation a war-worthy offense, but wanted African-Americans of the Civil Rights movement to march calmly for their freedom. One Nation that believed in separation of church and state, but slid "Under God" into our pledge of Allegiance with the help of Dwight D. Eisenhower on June 14, 1954. God Bless America.

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from Catharsis, released May 22, 2012
J. Poole, T. Crocker, Jr.

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