This American Life (Radio)

This American Life (Radio) - The Next/Talib Kweli/Immortal Technique

It's getting hot we're baking under the upper crust

The apple pie that they making ain't enough for us

Think skin from hedge funds to hustlers

My president is black but still it's getting rougher cuz'

Big man sized checks with no amounts

While the little man is stashing his sh*t with no accounts

Leftovers for dinner he lives hand to mouth

Saving for the bills not thinking bout eating out

Looking at his wife filling with creeping doubt

She sees it in his eyes now he's sleeping on the couch

An every day occurrence across the 50

States filling up with hate people walk with me

Why we all pissy it's a privilege isn't it

Prosperity and America should be synonyms

A wealthy nation keeping poor people living in the i'llest situations

Salute to the citizens

I hustle all day working at night

Just to try to pay the bills and keep on the lights

You struggle to feed the kids and the wife

Living this American life

They fooled us once they robbed us twice

Now they sit back making the people pay the price

Taxing the checks with venomous bites

We living this American life right

Separate the fact from the mystery

Stacking up the bodies built the statue of liberty

Opposition is in your proposition's propaganda

Jobs is going to china that's as popular as pandas

American idiot is more than a play on Broadway

Or a green day record graduation is foreplay

Because it happens right before you get f**ked

You stuck all day with no job watching judge Mathis Ellen and Maury

Waiting for the holidays looking for a vacation

In Brooklyn the destination is stay paid following

Booker's investigation cause a lack of education

I call myself a native but I have my reservations

Shopping escapism we addicted to the retail

That's ignorant as racism in paladino's emails

You probably like to f**k horses instead of females

God is in my heart but the devil is in the details

I hustle all day working at night

Just to try to pay the bills and keep on the lights

You struggle to feed the kids and the wife

Living this American life

They fooled us once they robbed us twice

Now they sit back making the people pay the price

Taxing the checks with venomous bites

We living this American life right

Millionaire rappers rhyming about welfare

Fake rich rappers that don't even have healthcare

I'll put you on the sun's surface and watch you melt there

Free mumia the Cuban 5 and Leonard peltier

And a whole lot of others that you don't care about

That exemplify America's spiritual whereabouts

They prepared the rout on a slave ship to oblivion

But dressed it up like a cruise through the Caribbean

What makes time contingent on the prime meridian

A cold blooded world designed by reptilians

Not snakes but empires of civilians

With modern day human sacrifice by the millions

Shot to the plot of American individuals

You're a fool for thinking that a republic's original

But you don't hear me about how it's gonna end one day

Too busy watching gladiator sports on Sundays

I hustle all day working at night

Just to try to pay the bills and keep on the lights

You struggle to feed the kids and the wife

Living this American life

They fooled us once they robbed us twice

Now they sit back making the people pay the price

Taxing the checks with venomous bites

We living this American life right