American Dream
Song by Jasmine J Walker
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It’s the land of the free, home of the brave but a lot of us and here are still enslaved
Please take caution on every single thing that you preach the big elite got us in a tight grip on a leash
It’s freedom of speech but you want to take my page down is it cause a sistah spit that real shit now
Crazy black woman? Clown, how do you figure? I went to school came out and then stacked my figures
I could’ve been laid up child support paid up
Grabbing mad choppas to your hood
To spray it up
My life ain’t never ever been a fairytale Jack
I think it’s time for me to keep it all the way trill
Sit back relax there’s some things I’m going to reveal
I grew up in the hot quick-sand mud trenches
Mad rainy days so you know I kept slipping
No need for me to cry because I will always be contending
This here path of righteousness
It just ain’t an easy road
But I’m trying every day
To do more than the day before
This here path of righteousness
It just ain’t and easy road
But I’m striving everyday
To be better than the day before
Just trying to be a woman of my word
Just trying to make sure everything I get I truly deserve
Every L I ever got was a lesson I learned
And everything God gave me was a blessing I ain’t earned
But he still saw fit to tell me I was fit enough to run the race and even though I ain’t in first place He told me I was worthy enough
To master the gift
He graciously bestowed
Upon me for his glory
Stop look at me up-and-down when you don’t know my story
I remember when my moms brought my cousins to the house to turn the lights on and not near One of them ever in they life worked for con Edison
Truth be told she had to open up the oven to keep three little babies warm from the cold
No probably be the water so she had to boil it on the stove
Shout out to my mama who never had the chance to fold
This here path of righteousness
It just ain’t an easy road
But I’m trying every day
To do more than the day before
This here path of righteousness
It just ain’t and easy road
But I’m striving everyday
To be better than the day before
Don’t look me in my eyes cuz I stare
Too intense
I’m one with the earth yeah I light my incense
I spit a 16 and make it all make sense
I’m highly educated
I do well under pressure
Put me in the water and
Watch me triple your investment
This ain’t black girl magic this is black girl rage
Can’t nobody tell me God won’t make a way
I vividly remember my LA homeless days
I was sleeping on the floor
With like 35 niggas praying to the Lord
Oh God don’t let them see my figure
No food in the fridge somehow I still ate
No money in the bank but I got paid
This here path of righteousness
It just ain’t an easy road
But I’m trying every day
To do more than the day before
This here path of righteousness
It just ain’t and easy road
But I’m striving everyday
To be better than the day before
Please take caution on every single thing that you preach the big elite got us in a tight grip on a leash
It’s freedom of speech but you want to take my page down is it cause a sistah spit that real shit now
Crazy black woman? Clown, how do you figure? I went to school came out and then stacked my figures
I could’ve been laid up child support paid up
Grabbing mad choppas to your hood
To spray it up
My life ain’t never ever been a fairytale Jack
I think it’s time for me to keep it all the way trill
Sit back relax there’s some things I’m going to reveal
I grew up in the hot quick-sand mud trenches
Mad rainy days so you know I kept slipping
No need for me to cry because I will always be contending
This here path of righteousness
It just ain’t an easy road
But I’m trying every day
To do more than the day before
This here path of righteousness
It just ain’t and easy road
But I’m striving everyday
To be better than the day before
Just trying to be a woman of my word
Just trying to make sure everything I get I truly deserve
Every L I ever got was a lesson I learned
And everything God gave me was a blessing I ain’t earned
But he still saw fit to tell me I was fit enough to run the race and even though I ain’t in first place He told me I was worthy enough
To master the gift
He graciously bestowed
Upon me for his glory
Stop look at me up-and-down when you don’t know my story
I remember when my moms brought my cousins to the house to turn the lights on and not near One of them ever in they life worked for con Edison
Truth be told she had to open up the oven to keep three little babies warm from the cold
No probably be the water so she had to boil it on the stove
Shout out to my mama who never had the chance to fold
This here path of righteousness
It just ain’t an easy road
But I’m trying every day
To do more than the day before
This here path of righteousness
It just ain’t and easy road
But I’m striving everyday
To be better than the day before
Don’t look me in my eyes cuz I stare
Too intense
I’m one with the earth yeah I light my incense
I spit a 16 and make it all make sense
I’m highly educated
I do well under pressure
Put me in the water and
Watch me triple your investment
This ain’t black girl magic this is black girl rage
Can’t nobody tell me God won’t make a way
I vividly remember my LA homeless days
I was sleeping on the floor
With like 35 niggas praying to the Lord
Oh God don’t let them see my figure
No food in the fridge somehow I still ate
No money in the bank but I got paid
This here path of righteousness
It just ain’t an easy road
But I’m trying every day
To do more than the day before
This here path of righteousness
It just ain’t and easy road
But I’m striving everyday
To be better than the day before