Just like in New Orleans you are all now under marshal law
And what ever happened to America, land of the free?
Yea, But not me

Give us your poor your tired your weak and while you're at it
Give George Bush and his corporation, oops I meant his administration,
give them all of your money

Cause, see they don't car about the poor
They care about money and oil, which equals death and war
But we say now is the time to stand and fight,

and take back our country from those in power
I know they've got the guns but we've got the hopeless standing
together and take back what's ours


[Aaron]
Somebody screaming something, nobody seen it coming

The streets are bleeding and all you can see is people running
These are the repercussions
The pledge of allegiance doesn't mean you have your freedom cousin,

that %#@! to me ain't nothing
I ain't gonna bow down to no man, no flag
%#@! I'll take my own stance, solute myself with both hands

This land is your land
This is for me and mine, so let my people shine
$#&@ your folks man


I represent the voices of the weak and poor
Getting exploited for the need for more

And usually all the greedy !@^%s turn their back
on my community to go compete in wars


This is the state of the nation
They got your neighbor at the station
This is the state of the nation

They got your neighbor at the station
This is the state of the nation
They got your neighbor at the station

This is the state of the nation

[Nick]

Outcast in the streets
First thing people see
Light brown skin tone and my shiny gold teeth

Just like that call me black trash
What the $#&@ you staring at
Dirty Skeet, busting back

Read it in the newspaper, just another casualty
Institution life, hard times follow after me
$#&@ incarceration

Stuck growing up to be lost in the system brainwashed by the enemy

[Aaron]

They don't give back nothing to the lower class
And tell that I'm supposed to vote for that
^!$$% I'm here to put an end to the joke

I'm not a thug mother$#&@er, I'm a symbol of hope

This is the state of the nation

They got your neighbor at the station
This is the state of the nation
They got your neighbor at the station

This is the state of the nation
They got your neighbor at the station
This is the state of the nation

This is the state of the nation