American Citizen
When will I see
Fruitions of being happy
What happened to respect exactly
What's intact is that I watch my back
Wondering when one close
Decides to hide inside
The lies of emotional ties
What do we do besides
Cry or rise
And after it's through
Who dies?
Both sides
Their drive to survive
Lead to lives of strife
Every level
Seemingly tactical as the devil
The world turned
And only burned
Never to discern pleasure
From worth
So nothing prospers except nerves
And empty words,
It blurs and can merge with the surge of the moment
Making every instant seem more potent
But they're not devoted
To anything but toting how they're floating
Status drifts to easy exits despite economic rifts
Cash made fast
And yourself cast
In the image
Of sinning men who're winning
Just as they dreamed in the beginning
Every minute was driven to break personal limits
Hidden within the rhythm of unforgiven victims
Listen to their mission in explicit visions
A collision with common sense
May stress the obvious unaddressed
Message we spread from our chest
We're stressed
Try our best
And still come home to a mess
Why despair
When leaders don't seem to care
Only there when the money's prepared
Other than a loaded brother
They'd let you see the death of your mother
From sea to shining sea
Liberty's ran by currency
And they'll burry me
If the money they expect,
but don't see
Kinda like us when we expect justice
Instead, many need to be fed,
Which leads to guns clutched
And head bust
Trust moves as dust
With the winds
It's ripped in gusts
And we're roughed up
Feeling friendships are corrupt
Or that you're never enough
But stuck in a rut of undercut
Schemes,
devious dreams that teem with greed
No deed is dumb if it gets the job done
Constantly they're stomping me
Even in the name of fun
No wonder we run
This exists because leaders fail to uplift
Instead, shift motive, make wealth
And lie about being legit,
We sift in your shit
Even after you admit you did it
Then we pretend your apology is the end
While we suffer once again
Man made ways to display
How our decay helps your lives everyday
What can we say
You portray dismay
Display basic hatred
Taking children in chain
Profit from filling prisons with their pain
Then claim it's in the laws name
We in awe
No respect at all
As if we're rejects
And wrong
For being born under your resolve
Is this why so many call on God
Begging, fighting, and still fall
Because greed has us driven up the wall?