Album Name

This Thing Called Life

Artist

August Alsina

Genre

R&B/Soul

Release Date

2015.12.11

Release Agency

Universal Music Group

American Dream - August Alsina
Ever since day one
Somebody probably say
you wouldn't be nothin'
I bet they told you this over
and over again on
repeat like a re run
Nobody ever told you
you could live up
To anything you want
don't give up
They rather tell you
you're destined for failure
That's what they tell you
But you just say
What about Martin
What about Garvey
What about Rosa
What about Malcolm
What if somebody told
they they wouldn't be nothin'
And they believed this
think about the outcome
Would we even be the way
we are today
Even if it weren't
could have been a harder way
Even though we lost
a lot of people on the way
Had to sacrifice to get us
in a better place
I hope you listen to these wizzords
All they want us
thinking about is
sipping on some sizzurp
And they got us thinking
something better we don't deserve
And that we shouldn't
try it's no use
But that couldn't be further
from the truth
Don't believe them
that's what they told me too
When I was growing up
they told me
They told me
that I wouldn't make it too far
And when I battle it will hold up
They told me
they told me yeah
That I wouldn't get anything
That's what they told me
they told me they told me
When we were little ones
We're supposed
to be kings and queens
When we don't believe them
Trying to live the American Dream
They say the balance
is a eleven each
As a reminder the people
they would never be
Jealousy got them sick
without a remedy
Thinking when I die
nobody's gonna remember me
I was told that nobody care
So the dreams that I had
turned to nightmares
It's dinged that life really ain't fair
Need help but it ain't there
See it's really hard to stay dedicated
When the bottom screaming
they was never educated
On the come up getting
high just to medicate it
Cause the teachers
just told him he would never make it
Now he feeling like he made it
cause he stuck in paper
But probably won't let him
spend the money later
Nobody ever told us
we could be greater
Everybody on the ground
in the paper chasers
I hope you listen to these wizzords
All they want us thinking
about is sipping on some sizzurp
And they got us thinking
something better we don't deserve
And that we shouldn't try it's no use
But that couldn't be
further from the truth
Don't believe them
that's what they told me too
When I was growing up
they told me
They told me
that I wouldn't make it too far
And when I battle it will hold up
They told me
they told me yeah
That I wouldn't get anything
That's what they told me
they told me they told me
When we were little ones
We're supposed to be
kings and queens
When we don't believe them
Trying to live the American Dream
They'd rather see me dead
never gone make it
They'd rather see me fail
never gonna be anything
They'd rather see me in jail
Everybody die you ain't shit
But not everybody lives

We gotta get out of this
You just gotta tell yourself
That somehow I'ma make it