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Intro + hook: Reks |
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This is the birth of a nation |
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Native, Caucasian, American |
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African slaves and immigrants settle in |
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Sweltering melting pots, mixing up with citizens |
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Beginning and end, birth of a nation |
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Native, Caucasian, American |
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African slaves and immigrants settle in |
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Sweltering melting pots, mixing up with citizens |
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Beginning and end, birth of a nation |
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What began in the land for the native |
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Was followed by the basis of ? made supreme through enslavement |
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I can see the slave ships, with my forefathers' faces |
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A predestiny beyond racist |
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Misinterpretations, show victory for our nation |
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A conquering of savage Indian, Negroid simpleton |
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Greatest crimes where witnessed then, but no loss for men |
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Minus the Anglo-Saxon fraction |
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Skin pigmentation placed us in another class than white saddlers who embellished their past, so laugh |
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The native's history was erased quick, therefore a face became faceless |
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Dare I say a facelift was brought ? nostrils, bigger lips and eyes |
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Something disguised as inhumane to brutalize |
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Taught to love the bluish eyes, less you and I |
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Take their statements so let's debate them |
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The birth of a nation |
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Native, Caucasian, American |
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African slaves and immigrants settle in |
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Sweltering melting pots, mixing up with citizens |
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Beginning and end, birth of a nation |
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Native, Caucasian, American |
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African slaves and immigrants settle in |
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Sweltering melting pots, mixing up with citizens |
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Beginning and end, birth of a nation |
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No longer natives they immigrated from all world places |
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To make a broad new world, their own oasis |
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A melting pot, placed in contrast with colonial ? |
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English citizens wake up |
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To new arrivals, been on survival |
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Being religious or political |
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Fleeing from prosecution is critical |
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Told that an economy grows beyond your shores, then of course |
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Do what it take to get across |
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The vast ocean, last notion |
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Of being lost in a land that ain't rightfully yours |
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A people divided become, unified into one |
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From Ellis Island to slums and ghettos marching to the beat of a drum |
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Declare independence to some, freedom to all |
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Come in the form of the speech of the gun, assemble young |
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Tell 'em revolutionists come, have you been waiting |
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Take a journey with Reks, birth of a nation |
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Native, Caucasian, American |
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African slaves and immigrants settle in |
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Sweltering melting pots, mixing up with citizens |
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Beginning and end, birth of a nation |
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Native, Caucasian, American |
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African slaves and immigrants settle in |
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Sweltering melting pots, mixing up with citizens |
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Beginning and end, birth of a nation |
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Modern times tell me we progress, from destiny manifest |
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Thirteen colonies expand to the west |
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Fifty states now govern the universe, Big Brother request |
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Little Brother show our power, respect |
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Michelle stressed, for the first time she prolly U.S |
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They tend to guess, we can and we did I guess |
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But ?, Martin's dream deferred |
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w on crash scene I heard |
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Mother of a movement urge |
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All my ? think equal to search, free people emerge |
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From degrade depression submerge |
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Supreme law found written in words, proclamation of revolt |
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No longer to a king I serve |
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This day and age do we really deserve, what was written in blood |
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Evil look good, all ? preserved |
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Playing crash through the tower after tower tumble down to the basement |
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Birth of a nation |
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Native, Caucasian, American |
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African slaves and immigrants settle in |
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Sweltering melting pots, mixing up with citizens |
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Beginning and end, birth of a nation |
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Native, Caucasian, American |
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African slaves and immigrants settle in |
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Sweltering melting pots, mixing up with citizens |
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Beginning and end, birth of a nation |
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Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth; let a people loving freedom come to growth. Let a beauty full of healing and a strength of final clenching be the pulsing in our spirits and our blood. Let the martial songs be written, let the dirges disappear. Let a race of men now rise and take control.* |
