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Let America be what it needs to be


Let America be what it needs to be

Let it be a freeland for everyone

let it be the kids running around freely on the street.

seeking their friends or on a run.

 

I am the hispanic, outcasted and misunderstood.

I am the poor selling drugs in the hood or working to much.

I am the police over using my power,

I am the criminal, going on a killing spree.

Seeing nothing but a broken tower,

Full of people with a burnt down tree.

 

Out of prison with the same old mistakes,

The killing and violence, rape and kidnapping.

We, Americans don't learn.

The stealing, the bodies, the lying,

The ocean of endless pain.

All the greed of Americans.

Let American be what it needs to be.

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