Eminem - White America lyrics

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(Prelude)
America!
We love you!

How many people are proud to be citizens of this beautiful country of ours?
The strips and the stars for the rights that men have died for to protect/

The women and men who have broke their necks for the freedom of speech the United States government has sworn to uphold.
Or so we're told.
(Yo I want everybody to listen to the words of this song)

[Verse 1]
I never would've dreamed in a million years I'd see,
so many motherfuckin people who feel like me/
who share the same views and the same exact beliefs,
it's like a fuckin army marchin in back of me/
So many lives I touched,
So much anger aimed in no particular direction,
just sprays and sprays/
Straight through your radio waves it plays and plays,
till it stays stuck in your head for days and days/

who woulda thought, standing in this mirror bleachin my hair,
with some peroxide, reachin for a tshirt to ware/
that I would catapult to the forefront of rap like this?
how could I predict my wordw ould have an impact like this/
I must've struck a chord with somebody up in the office cuz Congress keeps tellin me I ain't causin nuthin but problems/
and now they're saying I'm in trouble with the government,
I'm loving it, I shoveled shit all my life/
and now I'm dumping it on

[Chorus x2]
White America!
I could be one of your kids
White America!
Little Eric looks just like this
White America!
Erica loves my shit I go to TRL look how many hugs I get

[Verse 2]
Look at these eys, baby blue, baby just like yourself,
if they were brown Shady lose, Shady sits on the shelf/
but Shady's cute, Shady knew Shady's dimples would help, make ladies swoon baby, (ohh baby!)
Look at my sales/
Lets do the math, If I was black I would've sold half, I ain't have to graduate from Lincolin High School to know that/ but I could rap, so fuck school I'm too cool to go back, gimme the mic, show me where the fuckin studio's at/ when i was underground, no one gave a fuck i was white, no labels wanted to sign me almost gave up, i was like/ fuck it, until i met dre, the only one who look past, gave me a chance, and i lit a fire up under his ass/ helped him get back to the top, every fan black that u got was probably his in exchange for every white fan that he's got/ like dam, we just swapped. sitting back lookin at this, wow, im like my skin is it starting to work to my benifit now? it's [chorus x2]
verse 3
see the problem is i speak to suburban kids who otherwise would of never knew these words exist/ whose moms probably neber woulda gave two squirts of piss, till i created so much motherfuckin turbulence/ straight out the tube, right into your living rooms i came, and kids flipped when they knew i was produced by dre. thats all it took, and they were instantly hooked right in, and they connected with me too because i looked like them/ thats why they put my lyrics up under this microscope, searchin with a fine tooth comb, like this robe/ watin to choke, tightening around my throat, watchin me while i write this like i dont like this (Nope) ....


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