Any Man In America

Album: Any Man In America (2011)
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  • I only note spending time away
    I only note the truth is spoken
    Best when brutally so honestly

    I'll let you know you set
    The standards lyrically for me
    One single middle finger
    Say raise it up
    My speech will always be free
    Like Martin Luther King
    You had meaning to me

    Single handedly saving music starving industry
    A hip hop legend with skin like invisible ink
    Black even though he was whiter than me
    He was the first to be colorless
    Speaking for all of us
    Then you let us into your family
    Mother father brother sister wife daughter
    Damn right in front of me

    That's when I miss my daughter desperately
    Your mocking bird puts dents in me
    While touring press and reliving my song hate me
    I was losing custody, I never even saw that shit
    How she played me and planned and sought it fit
    To turn that trick and financially she would benefit
    My first and probably only billboard hit
    Was gonna pay for my two year old's college

    I should have hid that shit
    So she couldn't spend that shit
    It took twenty years of working
    Just to earn that shit
    Now word for word I've listened,
    heard and I'm done, done

    Like you don't know
    You act like you believe it
    That you're in control
    It's just your legal system though
    They don't think about you
    No they don't care about you
    Now every man in America take back your control
    Like you don't know
    You act like you believe it
    That you're in control
    It's just your legal system though
    They don't think about it
    No, they don't care about it
    Now every man in America take back your control

    So I kept my business quiet
    Just like my lawyer said
    And I tried to focus all
    My anger in my work instead
    I was succeeding at self reliant
    But inside my soul is dead
    I had to be the sole provider
    But not allowed to be the dad
    Literally they took her from me

    Legally they did, they did
    But I'm not a fucking book
    So fuck your book in Lincoln I said
    fuck the judge, fuck that county
    Fuck your family too
    Yeah fuck everybody that took my baby girl
    Blue, I'm way too strong
    I work my ass off all day long
    And I'm gone for months at a time

    And you keep sitting there and lying
    Bitching, "Come back home"
    I hate you, hate you God
    And then you came back home
    And filed for another fucking divorce
    I'm sick of her I'm sick of you
    I'm not sick, I'm lost up in my head
    Any other man in American can get screwed just like me

    Like you don't know
    You act like you believe it
    That you're in control
    It's just your legal system though
    They don't think about you
    No they don't care about you
    Now every man in America take back your control
    Like you don't know
    You act like you believe it
    That you're in control
    It's just your legal system though
    They don't think about it
    No, they don't care about it
    Now every man in America take back your control

    You won't understand, probably never will
    Listen slowly I'll let you know the deal
    Lying ass play the judge with your crying ass
    You had your nose wide open when you saw the cash
    Grimy bitch growing tired of you trying shit
    Women run the courts, men provide the chips

    Well eat up bitch until you had enough bitch
    But take my kids, you can kiss both my nuts bitch
    Telling lies cause daddy's always on the road
    But you the one fucking like a groupie at a show
    Money hungry so you try to take my youngest from me
    You a dummy honey I'll chase you across the country

    Bring the drama to you mama and you mama's mama
    Cause we all know you chasing after commas
    Couple checks few houses and Gucci blouses
    You changing dicks like you changing outfits
    Constitution now a day's got the daddies losing
    Lot of fathers getting fucked by the constitution

    Like you don't know
    You act like you believe it
    That you're in control
    It's just your legal system though
    They don't think about you
    No they don't care about you
    Now every man in America take back your control
    Like you don't know
    You act like you believe it
    That you're in control
    It's just your legal system though
    They don't think about it
    No, they don't care about it
    Now every man in America take back your control

    Like you don't know
    You act like you believe it
    That you're in control
    It's just your legal system though
    They don't think about you
    No they don't care about you
    Now every man in America take back your control
    Like you don't know
    You act like you believe it
    That you're in control
    It's just your legal system though
    They don't think about it
    No, they don't care about it
    Now every man in America take back your control

    Like you don't know
    You act like you believe it
    That you're in control
    It's just your legal system though
    They don't think about you
    No they don't care about you
    Now every man in America take back your control
    Like you don't know
    You act like you believe it
    That you're in control
    It's just your legal system though
    They don't think about it
    No, they don't care about it
    Now every man in America take back your control Writer/s: JUSTIN FURSTENFELD
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management
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