close your mind
close your eyes
see with your heart
how do you forgive the murderer of your father?
the ink of a scholar is worth a thousand times more than the blood of a martyr
we came through the storm
nooses on our necks and a smallpox blanket to keep us warm
on a 747 on the pentagon lawn
wake up the alarm clock is connected to a bomb
anthrax lab on a w. virginia farm
shorty ain't learned to walk already heavily armed
civilians and little children is especially harmed
camoflouged Torahs, Bibles and glorious Qurans
the books that take you to heaven and let you meet the Lord there
have become misinterpreted, reasons for warfare
re-read em with blind eyes i guarantee u there's more there
the rich must be blind cause they don't see the poor there
need to open up a park, just close 10 schools we don't need em
can u please call the fire department they're down here marchin for freedom
burn down their teepee's, turn their TVs on to teach em
[CHORUS]
The more money that they make, the more money that they make, the better and better they live
whatever they wanna take, whatever they wanna take, whatever whatever it is
the more that you wanna learn, the more that you try to learn, the better and better it gets
american te**orist
now the poor klu klux man see that were all brothers
not cause things are the same but cause we lack the same colour
that's green, now that's mean
can't burn his cross cause he can't afford the gasoline
now if a Muslim woman strapped with a bomb on a bus with the seconds running give you the jitters?
just imagine a American-based Christian orginization planning to poison water supplies to bring the second-coming quicker!
ni**a
they ain't livin properly
break em off a little democracy
turn their whole culture to a mockery
give em coca-cola for their property
give em gum, give em guns, get em young, give em fun
but if they ain't givin it up, then they ain't gettin none
and don't giv em all, naw man, just give em some
its the paper, some of these cops must be al-qae*a
[CHORUS (2X)]
It's like
dont give the black man food, give red man liquor
red man fool, black man ni**a
give yellow man tool, make him railroad builda
also give him pan, make him pull gold from river
give black man crack, glocks n tings
give red man craps, slot machines...
- American Te**orist by Lupe Fiasco
