Blue October - Any Man In America lyrics

I only note spending time away
I only note the truth is spoken
Best when brutally, so honestly
I'll let you know you set
The standards lyrically for me
One single middle finger, say raise it up
My speech will always be free
Like Martin Luther King
You had meaning to me
Single handedly saving music
Starving industry
A Hip-Hop legend with skin like invisible ink
Black, even though he was whiter than me
He was the first to be colorless
Speaking for all of us
Then you let us into your family
Mother, father, brother, sister, wife
Daughter damn, right in front of me
That's when I miss my daughter desperately
Your Mockingbird puts dents in me
While touring press and reliving
My song Hate Me i was losing custody
I never even saw that shit
How she played me and planned
And sought it fit
To turn that trick and financially
She would benefit
My first and probably only Billboard hit
Was gonna pay for my two year old's college
I should have hid that shit
So she couldn't spend that shit
It took twenty years of working
Just to earn that shit
Now word for word, I've listened, heard
And I'm done done

Like you don't know
You act like you believe it
That you're in control
It's just your legal system though
They don't think about you
No, they don't care about you
Now every man in America
Take back your control like you don't know
You act like you believe it
That you're in control
It's just your legal system though
They don't think about it
No, they don't care about it
Now every man in America
Take back your control

So I kept my business quiet
Just like my lawyer said
And I tried to focus all my
Anger in my work instead
I was succeeding at self-reliant, but inside
My soul is dead
I had to be the sole provider
But not allowed to be the dad
Literally, they took her from me
Legally they did! They did!
But, I'm not a fucking book
So fuck your book in Lincoln, I said
"Fuck the judge, fuck that county
Fuck your family too
Yeah, fuck everybody that took my baby girl
Blue" and I'm way too strong
I work my ass off all day long
And I'm gone for months at a time
And you keep sitting there and lying
Bitching "Come back home"
I hate you, hate you, God
And then you came back home
And filed for another fucking divorce
I'm sick of crying, I'm sick of you instead
I'm not sick, or stuck in my head
Any other man in American can
Get screwed just like me

Like you don't know
You act like you believe it
That you're in control
It's just your legal system though
They don't think about you
No, they don't care about you
Now every man in America
Take back your control like you don't know
You act like you believe it
That you're in control
It's just your legal system though
They don't think about it
No, they don't care about it
Now every man in America
Take back your control

You won't understand, probably never will
Listen slowly, I'll let you know the deal
Lying ass
Play the judge with your crying ass
You had your nose wide open
When you saw the cash
Grimy bitch, growing tired of you trying shit
Women run the courts, men provide the chips
Well, eat up, bitch, until you had enough
Bitch
But take my kids you can kiss both my nuts
Bitch telling lies 'cause daddy's always
On the road but, you the one fucking like
A groupie at a show money hungry
So you try to take my youngest from me
You a dummy, honey
I'll chase you across the country
Bring the drama to your mama
And your mama's mama
'Cause we all know you chasing after commas
Couple checks, few houses, and Gucci blouses
You changing dicks like you changing outfit's
Constitution nowaday's got the daddies losing
Lot of fathers getting
Fucked like prostitution

Like you don't know
You act like you believe it
That you're in control
It's just your legal system though
They don't think about you
No, they don't care about you
Now every man in America
Take back your control like you don't know
You act like you believe it
That you're in control
It's just your legal system though
They don't think about it
No, they don't care about it
Now every man in America
Take back your control

Like you don't know
You act like you believe it
That you're in control
It's just your legal system though
They don't think about you
No, they don't care about you
Now every man in America
Take back your control like you don't know
You act like you believe it
That you're in control
It's just your legal system though
They don't think about it
No, they don't care about it
Now every man in America
Take back your control

Like you don't know
You act like you believe it
That you're in control
It's just your legal system though
They don't think about you
No, they don't care about you
Now every man in America
Take back your control like you don't know
You act like you believe it
That you're in control
It's just your legal system though
They don't think about it
No, they don't care about it
Now every man in America
Take back your control