《American Dream》歌词

[00:00:00] American Dream-August Alsina

[00:00:15] Ever since day one

[00:00:17] Somebody probably say you wouldn't be nothin'

[00:00:19] I bet they told you this over

[00:00:20] And over again on repeat like a re-run

[00:00:23] Nobody ever told you you could live up

[00:00:25] To anything you want don't give up

[00:00:27] They rather tell you you're destined for failure

[00:00:30] That's what they tell you

[00:00:31] But you just say

[00:00:32] What about martin

[00:00:33] What about garvey

[00:00:34] What about rosa

[00:00:35] What about malcolm

[00:00:36] What if somebody told 'em they

[00:00:37] would never be nothin'

[00:00:38] And they believed this think about the outcome

[00:00:40] Would we even be the way we are today

[00:00:42] Even if it weren't could have been a harder way

[00:00:44] Even though we lost a lot of people on the way

[00:00:46] Had to sacrifice to get us in a better place

[00:00:48] I hope you listen to these wizzords

[00:00:50] All they want us thinking

[00:00:52] about is sipping on some sizzurp

[00:00:54] And they got us thinking something better

[00:00:57] we don't deserve

[00:00:58] And that we shouldn't try it's no use

[00:01:00] But that couldn't be further from the truth

[00:01:03] Don't believe it that's what they told me too

[00:01:06] When I was growing up they told me

[00:01:09] They told me that I wouldn't make it too far

[00:01:13] And when I got a little older

[00:01:16] They told me they told me yeah

[00:01:19] That I wouldn't be anything

[00:01:21] That's what they told me they told me

[00:01:24] When we were little ones

[00:01:25] That's what they told me they told me

[00:01:27] We're supposed to be kings and queens

[00:01:29] That's what they told me

[00:01:31] they told me they told me

[00:01:32] When we don't believe them

[00:01:33] That's what they told me they told me

[00:01:35] Trying to live the american dream

[00:01:38] They see the ballers and celebrities

[00:01:39] As a reminder of the people they would never be

[00:01:42] Jealousy got them sick without a remedy

[00:01:43] Thinking when I die nobody's gonna remember me

[00:01:45] I was told that nobody care

[00:01:47] So the dreams that I had turned to nightmares

[00:01:49] Cause this thing called life really ain't fair

[00:01:51] Need help but it ain't there

[00:01:53] See you know it's really hard to stay dedicated

[00:01:55] When the bottom screaming they was never educated

[00:01:57] On the come up getting high just to medicate it

[00:01:59] Cause the teachers just told him he

[00:02:00] would never make it

[00:02:01] Now he feeling like he made it

[00:02:02] cause he stuck in paper

[00:02:03] But probably won't let him spend the money later

[00:02:05] Nobody ever told us we could be greater

[00:02:07] To everybody on the ground in the paper chasers

[00:02:09] I hope you listen to these wizzords

[00:02:12] All they want us thinking

[00:02:14] about is sipping on some sizzurp

[00:02:16] And they got us thinking something

[00:02:18] better we don't deserve

[00:02:20] And that we shouldn't try it's no use

[00:02:22] But that couldn't be further from the truth

[00:02:24] Don't believe it that's what they told me too

[00:02:28] When I was growing up they told me

[00:02:30] They told me that I wouldn't make it too far

[00:02:34] And when I got a little older

[00:02:37] They told me they told me yeah

[00:02:40] That I wouldn't be anything

[00:02:42] That's what they told me they told me they told me

[00:02:45] When we were little ones

[00:02:46] That's what they told me they told me

[00:02:48] We're supposed to be kings and queens

[00:02:50] That's what they told me they told me they told me

[00:02:53] When we don't believe them

[00:02:54] That's what they told me they told me

[00:02:56] Trying to live the american dream

[00:02:59] That's what they told me they told me they told me

[00:03:02] They'd rather see me dead never gone make it

[00:03:04] They'd rather see me fail never gonna be anything

[00:03:07] They'd rather see me in jail

[00:03:09] you're never gonna be shit

[00:03:10] Everybody die you ain't shit

[00:03:13] But not everybody lives but not that somehow

[00:03:19] We gotta get out of this

[00:03:21] When did you tell me shit

[00:03:22] You just gotta tell yourself

[00:03:25] That somehow I'mma make it