Driven by ambition with a lack of decisions
Half pre-calculated intentions, another half by conditions
No real role models, street blocks become fathers
Teaching young men how to make it in a world with no offers
Job rate decreases, while the crime rate increases
Already marked for life with strikes that won’t free us
Does anybody see us, besides the boys in blue blazers
Try to take us from freedom to captivity and cages
That’s why the rage is swelling up in their faces
Trying to break free from a cycle that has bound them from ages
From daddy to daddy’s daddy it’s all a web of confusion
selling pollution as a solution to this life that alludes us
can’t see anything to fix it, looks like money’s the only ticket
with dreams of trading these rusty chain links in for white pickets
Isn’t this the same dreams they have on the other side of the tracks?
using the resources given so they can achieve that…
The American dream, it’s almost like we’re chasing a ghost
When most I know who pursued are left with stripes on their clothes.
I guess it aint called a dream for nothing…
The American dream
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