Lyrics American Dream.lrc August Alsina
[id: pshjbhic]
[ar: August Alsina]
[al: This Thing Called Life]
[ti: American Dream]
[length: 03:29]
[00:15.73]Ever since day one
[00:16.95]Somebody probably say you wouldn’t be nothin’
[00:19.10]I bet they told you this over and over again on repeat like a re-run
[00:23.12]Nobody ever told you you could live up
[00:25.12]To anything you want, don’t give up
[00:27.45]They rather tell you, you’re destined for failure
[00:29.62]That’s what they tell you
[00:31.56]But you just say
[00:32.21]What about Martin?
[00:33.19]What about Garvey?
[00:34.16]What about Rosa?
[00:35.18]What about Malcolm?
[00:36.20]What if somebody told they they wouldn’t be nothin’
[00:38.15]And they believed this, think about the outcome
[00:40.24]Would we even be the way we are today?
[00:41.94]Even if it weren’t, could have been a harder way
[00:43.94]Even though we lost a lot of people on the way
[00:46.24]Had to sacrifice to get us in a better place
[00:48.18]I hope you listen to these wizzords
[00:50.94]All they want us thinking about is sipping on some sizzurp
[00:54.91]And they got us thinking something better we don’t deserve
[00:59.07]And that cha shouldn’t try it’s no use
[01:01.02]But that couldn’t be further from the truth
[01:03.22]Don’t believe them that’s what they told me too
[01:07.44]When I was growing up (they told me)
[01:09.76]They told me (that I wouldn’t make it too far)
[01:13.58]And when I got a little older
[01:16.60](They told me) they told me, yeah
[01:19.58](That I wouldn’t be anything)
[01:21.62]That’s what they told me, they told me, they told me
[01:24.32]When we were little ones
[01:26.38]That’s what they told me, they told me, they told me
[01:28.38]We’re supposed to be kings and queens
[01:30.20]That’s what they told me, they told me, they told me
[01:32.20]When we don’t believe them
[01:35.06]That’s what they told me, they told me, they told me
[01:36.53]Trying to live the American Dream
[01:37.86]They say the ballers and celebrities
[01:40.02]As a reminder of the people that would never be
[01:42.05]Jealousy got them sick without a remedy
[01:44.15]Thinking when I die nobody’s gon remember me
[01:46.18]I was told that nobody care
[01:47.77]So the dreams that I had turned to nightmares
[01:49.56]Its this thing called life really ain’t fair
[01:51.87]Need help but it ain’t there
[01:53.36]So ya kno its really hard to stay dedicated
[01:55.32]When the ballers screaming they was never educated
[01:57.41]On the come up getting high just to medicate
[01:59.65]Cause the teachers just told him he would never make it
[02:01.64]Now he feeling like he made it cause he stuck in paper
[02:03.78]But probably won’t let him spend the money later
[02:06.05]Nobody ever told us we could be greater
[02:07.99]Everybody on the grind aint a paper chaser
[02:09.72]I hope you listen to these wizzords
[02:12.68]All they want us thinking about is sipping on some sizzurp
[02:16.33]And they got us thinking something better we don’t deserve
[02:20.58]And that cha shouldn’t try it’s no use
[02:22.66]But that couldn’t be further from the truth
[02:24.33]Don’t believe them that’s what they told me too
[02:28.97]When I was growing up (they told me)
[02:30.17]They told me (that I wouldn’t make it too far)
[02:35.05]And when I got a little older
[02:38.26](They told me) they told me, yeah
[02:40.96](That I wouldn’t be anything)
[02:43.05]That’s what they told me, they told me, they told me
[02:45.96]When we were little ones
[02:47.72]That’s what they told me, they told me, they told me
[02:49.39]We’re supposed to be kings and queens
[02:51.33]That’s what they told me, they told me, they told me
[02:53.45]When we don’t believe them
[02:56.14]That’s what they told me, they told me, they told me
[02:57.28]Trying to live the American Dream
[02:59.33](That’s what they told me, they told me, they told me)
[03:01.72]They’d rather see me dead, never gone make it
[03:05.24](That’s what they told me, they told me, they told me)
[03:07.00]They’d rather see me fail, never gonna be anything
[03:08.98](That’s what they told me, they told me, they told me)
[03:11.17]They’d rather see me in jail, you’re never gonna be shit
[03:12.92](That’s what they told me, they told me, they told me)
[03:14.23]Everybody die, you ain’t shit
[03:15.62](That’s what they told me, they told me, they told me)
[03:17.21]But not everybody lives, but i know that somehow
[03:19.49](I told you you was gonna make it)
[03:20.91]We can make it out of this
[03:22.73]When did you tell me shit?
[03:24.07]You just gotta tell yourself
[03:25.75]That somehow I’ma make it
[03:27.32]Year of Release: 2015