Eminem - White America(2002)

[00:01.06] America! Ha ha ha! We love you
[00:06.72] How many people are proud to be citizens
[00:09.52] Of this beautiful country of ours, the stripes and the stars
[00:12.95] For the rights that men have died for to protect?
[00:15.54] The women and men who have broke their necks
[00:18.68] For the freedom of speech the United States government has sworn to uphold
[00:22.25] Or so we're told
[00:23.89] (Yo, I want everybody to listen to the words of this song)
[00:25.02] I never would've dreamed in a million years I'd see
[00:28.18] So many motherfuckin' people who feel like me
[00:31.23] Who share the same views and the same exact beliefs
[00:34.58] It's like a fucking army marching in back of me
[00:38.05] So many lives I touched, so much anger aimed
[00:40.93] In no particular direction, just sprays and sprays
[00:44.17] And straight through your radio waves, it plays and plays
[00:47.57] 'Til it stays stuck in your head, for days and days
[00:50.85] Who would've thought, standing in this mirror, bleaching my hair
[00:53.96] With some peroxide, reaching for a t-shirt to wear
[00:57.26] That I would catapult to the forefront of rap like this?
[01:00.25] How could I predict my words would have an impact like this?
[01:03.36] I must've struck a chord with somebody up in the office
[01:06.53] 'Cause Congress keep telling me I ain't causing nothin' but problems
[01:09.89] And now they're saying I'm in trouble with the government
[01:13.03] I'm loving it, I shoveled shit all my life, and now I'm dumping it on
[01:16.36] White America! I could be one of your kids
[01:19.54] White America! little Eric looks just like this
[01:22.68] White America! Erica loves my shit
[01:25.93] I go to TRL, look how many hugs I get!
[01:28.72] White America! I could be one of your kids
[01:32.34] White America! little Eric looks just like this
[01:35.60] White America! Erica loves my shit
[01:38.88] I go to TRL, look how many hugs I get!
[01:42.07] Look at these eyes, baby blue, baby just like yourself
[01:45.12] If they were brown, Shady'd lose, Shady sits on the shelf
[01:48.13] But Shady's cute, Shady knew Shady's dimples would help
[01:51.42] Make ladies swoon, baby (ooh, baby!)
[01:53.71] Look at my sales!
[01:55.19] Let's do the math: if I was black, I woulda sold half
[01:57.91] I ain't have to graduate from Lincoln High School to know that
[02:00.93] But I could rap, so fuck school, I'm too cool to go back
[02:04.07] Give me the mic! Show me where the fucking studio's at!
[02:07.45] When I was underground no one gave a fuck I was white
[02:10.63] No labels wanted to sign me, almost gave up, I was like
[02:13.92] "Fuck it," until I met Dre, the only one to look past
[02:17.18] Gave me a chance and I lit a fire up under his ass
[02:20.29] Helped him get back to the top, every fan black that I got
[02:23.40] Was probably his in exchange for every white fan that he's got
[02:26.63] Like damn, we just swapped: sitting back looking at shit, wow
[02:29.76] I'm like my skin is it starting to work to my benefit now?
[02:33.26] White America, I could be one of your kids
[02:36.39] White America, little Eric looks just like this
[02:39.62] White America, Erica loves my shit
[02:42.58] I go to TRL, look how many hugs I get!
[02:45.88] White America, I could be one of your kids
[02:49.36] White America, little Eric looks just like this
[02:52.43] White America, Erica loves my shit
[02:55.33] I go to TRL, look how many hugs I get!
[02:58.94] See, the problem is I speak to suburban kids
[03:01.87] Who otherwise woulda never knew these words exist
[03:05.05] Whose moms probably woulda never gave two squirts of piss
[03:08.29] 'Til I created so much motherfucking turbulence
[03:11.48] Straight out the tube, right into your living rooms I came
[03:14.63] And kids flipped when they knew I was produced by Dre
[03:17.96] That's all it took, and they were instantly hooked right in
[03:20.90] And they connected with me too, because I looked like them
[03:24.27] That's why they put my lyrics up under this microscope
[03:27.18] Searching with a fine tooth comb, it's like this rope
[03:30.71] Waiting to choke, tightening around my throat
[03:33.67] Watching me while I write this, like, "I don't like this note!"
[03:36.80] All I hear is: lyrics, lyrics, constant controversy
[03:39.65] Sponsors working round the clock to try to stop my concerts early
[03:43.04] Surely hip-hop was never a problem in Harlem, only in Boston
[03:46.45] After it bothered the fathers of daughters starting to blossom
[03:49.87] So now I'm catching the flak from these activists when they ragging
[03:53.17] Actin' like I'm the first rapper to smack a bitch or say "faggot," shit
[03:56.44] Just look at me like I'm your closest pal
[03:59.67] The posterchild, the motherfucking spokesman now, for
[04:03.07] White America, I could be one of your kids
[04:05.78] White America, little Eric looks just like this
[04:09.03] White America, Erica loves my shit
[04:12.03] I go to TRL, look how many hugs I get!
[04:15.38] White America, I could be one of your kids
[04:18.66] White America, little Eric looks just like this
[04:21.83] White America, Erica loves my shit
[04:24.97] I go to TRL, look how many hugs I get!
[04:28.62] So to the parents of America, I am the Derringer
[04:32.66] Aimed at little Erica to attack her character
[04:35.00] The ringleader of this circus of worthless pawns
[04:38.98] Sent to lead the march right up to the steps of Congress
[04:42.84] And piss on the lawns of the White House
[04:44.87] To burn the flag and replace it with a Parental Advisory sticker
[04:48.96] To spit liquor in the faces of this democracy of hypocrisy
[04:53.62] Fuck you, Ms. Cheney! Fuck you, Tipper Gore!
[04:57.99] Fuck you with the freest of speech this Divided States of Embarrassment will allow me to have! Fuck you!
[05:05.73] Ha ha ha, I'm just playing, America
[05:22.72] You know I love you
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