Flobots - American Dreams lyrics

The whole world is watching
The whole world is watching
Something in my family tree is rotten
The whole world is watching
The whole world is watching
Something in my family tree is rotten

Ancestors so grotesque
Clans of destiny to go West
Manifest bleeds protest
10 million rest in peace below depths
Oh, no, oh yes no struggle, no progress
Bend the rules, run the jewels
40 acres and a mule and no less
Who claims to know best though?
Who's trained to protect those?
Some of those who burn crosses
Also arraign and arrest those
Some of those current losses
This fiscal year are exceptional
They got more guns than Destro
Make them disappear like presto

I wrote this rap to pray
For another life cast away
Now that's more settlement, cash to pay
But that won't bring daddy back today
That's just more petals at the grave
The moonlight saw that display
So what more can we do, my god
When there's nothing left to say
Meet me at the gate and say "kumbaya"

Scheming for a way to stay up
Dreaming of the day I wake up
Scheming for a way to stay up
Dreaming of the day I wake up
Scheming for a way to stay up
Dreaming of the day I wake up
Scheming for a way to stay up
Dreaming of the day I wake up

Aye, Mom was a bloody-knuckled valedictorian
Papa was a comet from the
Quarry and tobacco fields
Cover me in notes of old hickory and Moses
That cotton linen blends the
Benefit's of forbidden yields
Black feet move without reservations
Our bodies walk the streets and
We resume our occupations
And claims of common sense more cautious
Than Caucasian condiments
Black cowboys are real but they ain't missing

Black avengers show up before
The crowd'll get pissed
When the milk goes as sour
As a counterfeit kiss
We can still make a pound of biscuit's
Get some vision be the crowd of misfit's
Where the lyricists spit
The merit's of the heretic is
Where the patriot lives
And we to hate to relive
What it takes to forgive
Can't forget what we did
Better yet let's amend
To protect next of kin by accepting our sins

Scheming for a way to stay up
Dreaming of the day I wake up
Scheming for a way to stay up
Dreaming of the day I wake up
Scheming for a way to stay up
Dreaming of the day I wake up
Scheming for a way to stay up
Dreaming of the day I wake up

Scheming for a way to stay up
Dreaming of the day I wake up
Scheming for a way to stay up
Dreaming of the day I wake up
Scheming for a way to stay up
Dreaming of the day I wake up
Scheming for a way to stay up
Dreaming of the day I wake up