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I Don't Wanna Live in America

by Shahan

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A political song written in 2020

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[Verse 1]
I hit harder than Bobby Bouche
Castor Troy, water boy 'cept I'm sippin' butane
Speaking at your ski resorts, twisted with a few dames
Spittin' at a tiki torch, this that yoga blue flame
back when
Titty Boi converted to 2 Chainz
I was 23 and me? I was going through things
Uncle dyin', I was always fighting with my boo thang
Education on the caged bird and why it do sing
My shit knocks
Harder than white cops
Looking for kids that they can put into a tight box
Because they dad ain't have papers for picking bright crops
Their president told'em it was effecting white jobs
Goddamnit
In a world like this
I be asking why the hand of fate curl like this
Got you watching what you say on your foreign film shit
Time is an illusion
I be on my Lauryn Hill shit

[Chorus]
When it all falls down
(Where will you be? Going insane when it's all around me?)

And your luck runs out
(How will you play? Making no sound though you're screaming in pain)

You'll know that even now
(I don't wanna live, I don't wanna live)

This ain't what you came here for
(I don't wanna live in America
I don't wanna live in America)

When it all falls down
(Where will you be? Going insane when it's all around me?)

And your luck runs out
(How will you play? Making no sound though you're screaming in pain)

You'll know that even now
(I don't wanna live, I don't wanna live)

This ain't what you came here for
(I don't wanna live in America
I don't wanna live in America)

[Verse 2]
I don't wanna live in America
Things just keep getting scarier
Grown men and women not acknowledging their privilege
Look at the police and don't see their abuse of power because their
skin isn't pigmented
They don't have to deal with it
They usually get to live
Same one's say a protest is too violent...looking at a 17 year old white man
Call him a hero because he put a hole into somebody's motherfuckin head
Shot 3, 2 are dead
Got arrested peacefully
Meanwhile, Jakob Blake gets shot 7 times in the back over something that
Maybe he didn't do, maybe he did. Do you get it yet?
I don't wanna live in America, this is bullshit
President ain't ever had interest in what the truth is
Last one who cared about making a change was Kennedy
Shot a magic bullet and made him a smoothie recipe

Latin Man lynched in Houston, what a nuisance
Could've been me or my fam and hasn't been in the news since
Telling us it's suicide, but we know what the truth is:
Truth hurts and doesn't need a horn to make the shoe fit
4 other lynchings this year and they were all black
Same shit would probably happen at Jesus' comeback
Tree with a branch and a rope with a twist is a new crucifix
It's abusive and sick
Who is this? (Hello?)
How's the water looking in Michigan?
Bezos has $200 billion, I couldn't pay my rent
I don't wanna live in an America that defends
Putting us out on the street and putting spikes on the bench
Who is this? (Hello?)
This where everybody equal and free?
Free to die at the hands of the motherfucking police?
We're running out of blind eyes
When are we gonna see
It's a 400 year old war we're fighting in the streets
Fuck America

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released March 12, 2021
Written, performed, produced, mixed and mastered by Shahan

Cover art by Shahan

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