Lyrics White America.lrc Eminem
[id: pshjvhff]
[ar: Eminem]
[al: The Eminem Show]
[ti: White America]
[length: 05:25]
[00:00.16]America, hahaha, we love you
[00:06.95]How many people are proud to be citizens
[00:08.89]Of this beautiful country of ours, the stripes and the stars
[00:13.12]For the rights that men have died for to protect?
[00:15.76]The women and men who have broke their necks
[00:18.07]For the freedom of speech
[00:19.45]The United States government has sworn to uphold
[00:22.16](Yo, I want everybody to listen to the words of this song)
[00:24.30]Or so we’re told
[00:25.37]I never would’ve dreamed in a million years I’d see
[00:28.33]So many motherfuckin’ people who feel like me
[00:31.40]Who share the same views and the same exact beliefs
[00:34.58]It’s like a fucking army marching in back of me
[00:37.95]So many lives I touched, so much anger aimed
[00:41.12]In no particular direction, just sprays and sprays
[00:44.30]And straight through your radio waves, it plays and plays
[00:47.55]’Til it stays stuck in your head, for days and days
[00:50.81]Who would’ve thought, standing in this mirror, bleaching my hair
[00:53.97]With some peroxide, reaching for a t-shirt to wear
[00:57.01]That I would catapult to the forefront of rap like this?
[01:00.26]How could I predict my words would have an impact like this?
[01:03.68]I must’ve struck a chord with somebody up in the office
[01:06.79]’Cause Congress keep telling me I ain’t causing nothin’ but problems
[01:10.07]And now they’re saying I’m in trouble with the government
[01:12.60]I’m loving it, I shoveled shit all my life, and now I’m dumping it on
[01:16.33]White America, I could be one of your kids
[01:19.61]White America, little Eric looks just like this
[01:23.01]White America, Erica loves my shit
[01:25.88]I go to TRL, look how many hugs I get
[01:28.60]White America, I could be one of your kids
[01:32.55]White America, little Eric looks just like this
[01:35.75]White America, Erica loves my shit
[01:38.65]I go to TRL, look how many hugs I get
[01:41.95]Look at these eyes, baby blue, baby just like yourself
[01:45.08]If they were brown, Shady’d lose, Shady sits on the shelf
[01:48.32]But Shady’s cute, Shady knew Shady’s dimples would help
[01:51.52]Make ladies swoon, baby (ooh, baby)
[01:53.83]Look at my sales
[01:54.98]Let’s do the math, if I was black, I woulda sold half
[01:57.93]I ain’t have to graduate from Lincoln High School to know that
[02:01.10]But I could rap, so fuck school, I’m too cool to go back
[02:04.22]Give me the mic, show me where the fucking studio’s at
[02:07.43]When I was underground no one gave a fuck I was white
[02:10.68]No labels wanted to sign me, almost gave up, I was like
[02:13.87]”Fuck it,” until I met Dre, the only one to look past
[02:17.25]Gave me a chance and I lit a fire up under his ass
[02:20.39]Helped him get back to the top, every fan black that I got
[02:23.53]Was probably his in exchange for every white fan that he’s got
[02:26.87]Like damn, we just swapped, sitting back looking at shit, wow
[02:30.06]I’m like my skin is it starting to work to my benefit now? it’s-
[02:33.35]White America, I could be one of your kids
[02:36.43]White America, little Eric looks just like this
[02:39.85]White America, Erica loves my shit
[02:42.64]I go to TRL, look how many hugs I get
[02:46.10]White America, I could be one of your kids
[02:49.46]White America, little Eric looks just like this
[02:52.57]White America, Erica loves my shit
[02:55.31]I go to TRL, look how many hugs I get!
[02:58.88]See, the problem is I speak to suburban kids
[03:02.05]Who otherwise woulda never knew these words exist
[03:05.21]Whose moms probably woulda never gave two squirts of piss
[03:08.33]’Til I created so much motherfucking turbulence
[03:11.41]Straight out the tube, right into your living rooms I came
[03:14.57]And kids flipped when they knew I was produced by Dre
[03:17.69]That’s all it took, and they were instantly hooked right in
[03:21.19]And they connected with me too, because I looked like them
[03:24.39]That’s why they put my lyrics up under this microscope
[03:27.32]Searching with a fine tooth comb, it’s like this rope
[03:30.23]Waiting to choke, tightening around my throat
[03:33.68]Watching me while I write this, like, “I don’t like this note”
[03:37.05]All I hear is, lyrics, lyrics, constant controversy
[03:39.64]Sponsors working round the clock to try to stop my concerts early
[03:43.50]Surely hip-hop was never a problem in Harlem, only in Boston
[03:46.69]After it bothered the fathers of daughters starting to blossom
[03:49.92]So now I’m catching the flak from these activists when they ragging
[03:53.38]Actin’ like I’m the first rapper to smack a bitch or say “faggot,” shit
[03:57.05]Just look at me like I’m your closest pal
[03:59.52]The posterchild, the motherfucking spokesman now, for-
[04:03.11]White America, I could be one of your kids
[04:06.12]White America, little Eric looks just like this
[04:09.49]White America, Erica loves my shit
[04:12.37]I go to TRL, look how many hugs I get
[04:15.65]White America, I could be one of your kids
[04:18.94]White America, little Eric looks just like this
[04:22.01]White America, Erica loves my shit
[04:25.15]I go to TRL, look how many hugs I get
[04:28.80]So to the parents of America, I am the Derringer
[04:32.48]Aimed at little Erica to attack her character
[04:36.16]The ringleader of this circus of worthless pawns
[04:39.78]Sent to lead the march right up to the steps of Congress
[04:43.04]And piss on the lawns of the White House
[04:45.28]To burn the – and replace it with a Parental Advisory sticker
[04:49.52]To spit liquor in the faces of this democracy of hypocrisy
[04:53.15]Fuck you, Ms. Cheney
[04:56.26]Fuck you, Tipper Gore
[04:58.51]Fuck you with the freest of speech
[05:00.65]This Divided States of Embarrassment will allow me to have
[05:04.85]Fuck you
[05:07.48]
[05:19.13]Hahaha, I’m just playing, America
[05:22.28]You know I love you
[05:23.24]Year of Release: 2002