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American Dreams Lyrics by Flobots

NOENEMIES

2017

[Intro: Jonny 5/Brer Rabbit]
The whole world is watching
The whole world is watching
Something in my family tree is rotten
The whole world is watching
The whole world is watching
Something in my family tree is rotten
[Verse 1: Jonny 5]
Ancestors so grotesque
Plans of destiny to go West
Manifest bleeds protest
Ten million rest in peace below depths
Oh no, oh yes (Oh yes)
No struggle, no progress (Progress)
Bend the rules, run the jewels
Forty acres and a mule and no less (No less)
Who claims to know best though?
Who's trained to protect those?
Some of those who burn crosses
Also arraign and arrest those
Some of those current losses
This fiscal year are exceptional
They got more guns than Destro
Make them disappear like presto
I wrote this rap to pray for another life cast away
Now that's more settlement, cash to pay
But that won't bring daddy back today
That's just more petals at the grave
The moonlight saw that display
So what more can we do, my god
When there's nothing left to say
Meet me at the gate and say "kumbaya"
[Hook: Brer Rabbit]
Scheming for a way to stay up
Dreaming of the day I wake up
Scheming for a way to stay up
Dreaming of the day I wake up
Scheming for a way to stay up
Dreaming of the day I wake up
Scheming for a way to stay up
Dreaming of the day I wake up
[Verse 2: Brer Rabbit]
Aye, Mom was a bloody-knuckled valedictorian
Papa was a comet from the quarry and tobacco fields
Cover me in notes of old hickory and Moses
That cotton linen blends the benefits of forbidden yields
Black feet move without reservations
Our bodies walk the streets and we resume our occupations
And claims of common sense more cautious
Than Caucasian condiments
Black cowboys are real but they ain't myths and
Black avengers show up before the crowd'll get pissed
When the milk goes as sour as a counterfeit kiss
We can still make a pound of biscuits, get some fish and
Feed a crowd of misfits, where the lyricists spit
The merits of the heretic is where the patriot lives
And we to hate to relive what it takes to forgive
Can't forget what we did, better yet let's amend
To protect next of kin by accepting our sins
[Hook: Brer Rabbit]
Scheming for a way to stay up
Dreaming of the day I wake up
Scheming for a way to stay up
Dreaming of the day I wake up
Scheming for a way to stay up
Dreaming of the day I wake up
Scheming for a way to stay up
Dreaming of the day I wake up
[Instrumental Break]
[Outro: Brer Rabbit]
Scheming for a way to stay up
Dreaming of the day I wake up
Scheming for a way to stay up
Dreaming of the day I wake up
Scheming for a way to stay up
Dreaming of the day I wake up
Scheming for a way to stay up
Dreaming of the day I wake up
Credits
Flobots

Flobots

About “American Dreams” by Flobots

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