Nas, Nashawn - My Country lyrics

American born, American raised, American made

My country shitted on me (My country)
She wants to get rid of me (Nah, never)
'Cause the things I seen (We know too much)
'Cause the things I seen (We seen too much)
My country shitted on me (My country)
She wants to get rid of me (Nah, never)
'Cause the things I seen (We know too much)
'Cause the things I seen (We seen too much)

Ayo, it's packed on this Rikers bus
The tightest cuffs is holdin' me shackled
The life of a thug caught
In the devil's lasso
On the streets I was invincible
Cowards would duck at a glimpse if they knew
What my pistol would do, a fuckin' killer
Mother's a dope fiend embarrassin' me
All in front of my friends in the street
Smile with no teeth


I never knew daddy, heard he had a '72 caddy
Died in a robbery, can't remember him
Was probably three
Why didn't my folks just die in this society
Why wasn't I a child of a
Doctor who left stocks for me?
Two little brothers, two sisters
Them shorties gots to eat
Mother's a junkie, she twisted
So all they got is me i'm the provider
With goals to do much better than my father
Whether through drugs sold
Or holdin' revolvers
Blurry visions of dad holdin' me high
It comes to me slowly, the words he would cry

My country shitted on me (My country)
She wants to get rid of me (Nah, never)
'Cause the things I seen (We know too much)
'Cause the things I seen (We seen too much)
My country shitted on me (My country)
She wants to get rid of me (Nah, never)
'Cause the things I seen (We know too much)
'Cause the things I seen (We seen too much)

It is I that step up
Me that don't give a fuck
You that foe, then it's all over soldier
Hummers and Ranges through the desert
Fuck a twenty-inch
Long as we got gas and we got water
Troopers lookin' for manslaughter
I gotta get back for what they owe
Shoot 'em in the back for the get back
Lead through shit bag, hogtie, gag
Forget the life had, now we all rebels
Everything burnt down includin' the ghetto
We can see for miles, the land
It's major rubble
And debris from the Earth as we knew crumble
Yo, you could see the sea and
The stars look closer to me
I'm a mad man, this is a real life movie
Mad Max sKs, AKs max
ABR's spittin' and it ain't a rap
My mommy dearest pray for me
Hopin' I come back, but, yo

My country shitted on me (My country)
She wants to get rid of me (Nah, never)
'Cause the things I seen (We know too much)
'Cause the things I seen (We seen too much)
My country shitted on me (My country)
She wants to get rid of me (Nah, never)
'Cause the things I seen (We know too much)
'Cause the things I seen (We seen too much)

Yo, I'm sittin' behind these prison walls
I got this pen and pad wishin' on a visit
God brothers is here for homicide and yo
It's some for rape some brothers innocent
I pray that I could just escape
How is the war, and, yo
I'm wishin' I was in your shoes
Holdin' machine guns, clean fun
Shootin' dudes with fatigues on
Anywhere is better than this
It's America's plan
Every color of man inherit's the shit
Yo, I'm startin to think it's all a scheme
Nobody cares i know the warden is readin'
The scribe, but, yo, i swear
It's a billion dollar business, courts
Lawyers and jails
We all slaves in the system
I'm 'bout to rebel

There's not a bitch in sight or a block bench
All-black gate, all-gray fence
Look who fucked it all up, Mr president
I remember yesterday we was on
The block gettin' bent
Now it's state of the art
I just saw the first dude I met here
His head came apart
What a bloody mess, a slug fest
I just buried eight of mine
At night I hear grown men cryin'
You know I'm spittin' mine
I ain't goin' out here we gotta win
Every time I hear the wind I
Think a slug went in
I'm checkin' my chest, holdin' my head
Catchin' my breath, watchin' my back
Smokin' this grass, beatin' my dick
Thinkin' of ass
I don't know what they broadcast
The newsflash is fake
Every day I'm feelin' like you
I wanna escape
And if y'all niggas feelin' like me
Y'all niggas just say

My country shitted on me (My country)
She wants to get rid of me (Nah, never)
'Cause the things I seen (We know too much)
'Cause the things I seen (We seen too much)
My country shitted on me (My country)
She wants to get rid of me (Nah, never)
'Cause the things I seen (We know too much)
'Cause the things I seen
('Cause the things we seen)

This goes out to Che Guevara
A revolutionary destroyed by his country
Just trying to fight for what's real
This goes out to my nigga
Malcolm El-Hajj Malik Shabazz
Just tryna to fight for what's real
This goes out to Martin
All about peace and destroyed
By his own country
This goes out to everybody in the whole world
Just trying to fight for what's real
To Patrice Lumumba
Just trying to fight for what's real
And destroyed by his own people
This goes out to my hood niggas
Coming up every day just trying to survive
The only way we know how
But see we know too much now
And we seen too much now
So ain't nothing gon' to stop us now
To my country my country
My country my country
My country yeah, my country