Any Man In America lyrics

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I only know spending time away

I only know 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

And 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

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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!

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 crying

I'm sick of you instead

I'm not sick, or stuck in my head

Any other man in American can get screwed just like me

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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're 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're chasing after commas

Couple checks, few houses and Gucci blouses

You changing dicks like you changing outfits

Constitution nowadays got the daddies losing

Lots of fathers getting fucked like prostitution

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• Artist:Blue October
• Album:Any Man In America (2011)