Immigrants (We Get The Job Done) lyrics - K'naan (feat. Residente, Riz MC & Snow Tha Product)
(from "The Hamilton Mixtape")
["Yorktown" sample:]
[Hercules Mulligan:]
And just like that it's over, we tend to our wounded, we count our dead
[John Laurens:]
Black and white soldiers wonder alike if this really means freedom…
[George Washington:]
Not yet
[K'Naan:]
I got 1 job, 2 jobs, 3 when I need them
I got 5 roommates in this one studio but I never really see them
And we all came America trying to get a lap dance from lady freedom
But now lady liberty is acting like Hillary Banks with a pre-nup (Banks with a pre-nup)
Man I was brave sailing on graves
Don't think I didn't notice those tombstones disguised as waves
I'm no dummy, here is something funny you can be an immigrant without risking your lives
Or crossing these borders with thrifty supplies
All you got to do is see the world with new eyes
[Chorus:]
Immigrants
We get the job done
Look how far I come
Look how far I come
Look how far I come
We get the job done
Look how far I come
Look how far I come
Look how far I come
Immigrants
We get the job done
[Snow Tha Product:]
It's a hard line
When you're an import
Baby boy it's hard times
When you ain't sent for
Racist feed the belly of the beast
With they pitchforks, rich chores
Done by the people that get ignored
Ya se armó
Ya se despertaron
It's a whole awakening
La alarma ya sonó hace rato
Los que quieren buscan
Pero nos apodan como vagos
We are the same ones
Hustling on every level
Ten los datos
Walk a mile in our shoes
Abrochenze los zapatos
I been scoping ya dudes
Ya'll ain't been working like I do
I'll outwork you, it hurts you
You claim I'm stealing jobs though
Peter Piper claimed he picked them he just underpaid Pablo
But there ain't a paper trail when you living in the shadows
We're Americas ghost writers the credit is only borrowed
It's a matter of time before the checks all come
But…
[Chorus:]
Immigrants
We get the job done
Look how far I come
Look how far I come
Look how far I come
We get the job done
Look how far I come
Look how far I come
Look how far I come
Immigrants
We get the job done
Not yet
[Snow Tha Product:]
The credit is only borrowed
It's Americas ghost writers the credit is only borrowed
It's Americas ghost writers
It's Americas ghost writers
It's Americas ghost writers the credit is only borrowed
It's Americas ghost writers the credit is only borrowed
It's Americas ghost writers the credit is only borrowed
It's Americas ghost writers the credit is only borrowed
It's...
[Part Chorus:]
Immigrants
We get the job done
[Riz MC:]
Ay yo aye immigrants we don't like that
Na they don't play British empire strikes back
They beating us like 808's and high hats
At our own game of invasion, but this ain't Iraq
Who these fugees, what did they do for me
But contribute new dreams
Taxes and tools swagger and food to eat
Cool, they flee war zones, but the problem ain't ours
Even if our bombs landed on them like the Mayflower
Buckingham Palace or Capitol Hill
Blood of my ancestors had that all built
With the ink you print on your dollar bill, oil you spill
Thin red lines on the flag you hoist when you kill
But still we just say "look how far I come"
Hindustan, Pakistan, to London
To a galaxy far from their ignorance
Cause immigrants, we get the job done
[Residente:]
Por tierra o por agua
Identidad falsa
Brincamos muros o flotamos en balsas
La peleamos como Sandino en Nicaragua
Somos como las plantas que crecen sin agua
Sin pasaporte americano
Porque la mitad de gringolandia es terreno mexicano
Hay que ser bien hijo de puta
Nosotros les sembramos el árbol y ellos se comen la fruta
Somos los que cruzaron
Aquí vinimos a buscar el oro que nos robaron
Tenemos mas trucos que la policía secreta
Metimos la casa completa en una maleta
Con un pico, una pala
Y un rastrillo
Te construimos un castillo
Como es que dice el coro cabrón?
[Chorus:]
Immigrants
We get the job done
Look how far I come
Look how far I come
Look how far I come
We get the job done
Look how far I come
Look how far I come
Look how far I come
Immigrants
We get the job done
Look how far I come
Look how far I come
Look how far I come
Immigrants
We get the job done
Not yet
Refugee lyrics - K'naan
If I was gonna be free, I'd have to change my name
Mama don't feel shame, somebody call me refugee
My old name was all wrong, I've waited for so long
To decide my destiny, somebody call me refugee
Somebody call me refugee
I am
I am
And I walked a long way
I am
But I was not at all alone
I am
Whole city gone astray
I am
Every suitcase held a home
Somebody call me refugee
Somebody call me refugee
Somebody call me refugee
And I'll wear it proudly, refugee
I am
I am
I am
There's a weight inside my shoe
I am
Built a nest for those I grieve
I am
And no matter what I do
I am
They will always walk with me
They will always walk with me
Somebody call me refugee
Somebody call me refugee
Somebody call me refugee
And I'll wear it proudly, refugee
I am
I am
Take me
I am
Make me, take me
I am
Make me, take me
I am
Make me, take me
I am
Make me, take me
I am
Somebody call me refugee
Somebody call me refugee
Somebody call me refugee
And I'll wear it proudly, refugee
I am
I am
And I'll wear it proudly, refugee
Sunny Days lyrics - K'naan
[Verse 1:]
Pour me a cup of tea like dat old song
Dat I had like dat old girl I was wrong
And it's sad if I spit I will cuss you
Is that bad cause I really did trus you
If the thought ever surfaced to leave you
I would die cause the purpose would be you
You've changed for the world look how you are
You front grillin me from a dudes car
How sudden let me see you got a tongue ring
How funny we forget about the little things
Say word now you hang out with big girls
And the guys you date these days differn
I hear the stories and it makes me sicker
My heart aches you fake like a picture
So close to reality but not quite
So dope man her body was so right
She was a highschool shit how would I've known
That her thoughts would conflict like the bible
I don't offend I pretend ike I'm laughin
Like we connect like some shit could really happen
And it did we made a move for this long thing
I met the parents and gave her the round ring
And all of a sudden she got a license to nag me
What the fuck I'm jus tyring to make you happy
[Chorus:]
(Sunny days)
-nope don't have em no more
-watchu on the phone for
-don't cal lme no more
(Sunny days)
Naw so don't agonize me
-I can't stand the stress
-see I'm alright without you
(Sunny days)
-see I'm far from your reach now
-your body doesnt tempt me... maybe jus a lil
(Sunny days)
-yea on the real
-like welfare checks
-you and I are through... through... through
[Verse 2:]
Alright I'm vexed
Aite look I'm tired and stress
Don't commend me like that cool it
I'll be back watch dr phill or somtin
You a lil to excited it's not your birthday
You might as well be a rapper talkin all that shit
What the... you throwin things aite that's it
You goin fix it I'm not gona scream
Not on some bitch shit, nothing but chill
I'm not callin you a bitch jus a figure of speaech
What's all these I hates yous
You sound like kellis, love look
You'r piercing me with this fierce scream
Seriously my ears feel like they bleeding tears
And hears the head scarf you left in my domain
And hears teh photos of our memory lain
[Bridge:]
And hears teh photos of our memory lain and there's
(nothin for you around here)
You crossed over the other side of the tracks so there's
(nothing for you around here)
I used to bet on you
But now the bets off and you know I got roots
There for my ex love
A brother like me deserves the best of
And your not some...
[Chorus]
(Sunny days)
-nope don't have em no more
-watchu on the phone for
-don't cal lme no more
(Sunny days)
Naw so don't agonize me
-I can't stand the stress
-see I'm alright without you
(Sunny days)
-see I'm far from your reach now
-your body doesnt tempt me... maybe jus a lil
(Sunny days)
-yea on the real
-like welfare checks
-you and I are through... through... through
Nothing for you around here
(nothing for you around here)
-nope don't have em no more
-watchu on the phone for
-don't cal lme no more
(Sunny days)
Naw so don't agonize me
-I can't stand the stress
-see I'm alright without you
(nothing for you around here)
-see I'm far from your reach now
-your body doesnt tempt me... maybe jus a lil
(nothing for you around here)
-yea on the real
-like welfare checks
-you and I are through... through... through
(Sunny days)
... (Sunny days)
... (Sunny days)
... (Sunny days)
The Great Depression lyrics - K'naan (feat. Damon Albarn)
It's the great depression,
The greatest of the century,
People hot and thirsty,
But the water barrels empty,
There is no more to love about,
it's masculine and many,
And if you are hungry,
you'll join the fight eventually.
The market used to be the place for lovers and magicians,
Making fire with their hearts and hands to make decisions,
Now you find the baskers full of weiry inhibitions,
Once a year this happening, displayed on exhibition.
Now they need a candidate to take the fault of circumstance,
Trust and riddled then came and chose a man that flood an over [?]
Now his fate is sown in he had to call all relatives,
But he took his last appeal and claimed so he could take the chance,
So the constant love, the spirits told'em that he had to go,
No one dared to disagree cus' God said they were in the know,
So he kissed his boys goodbye, feeling deep as indigo,
Knowing he would have to prove his worth to all his friends and foes.
[Damon Albarn:]
Simple sounds, (songs[?])
Of repair,
That's enough,
For me,
And you,
It would take a million years before he found this little town,
And it was in Dappa found the locals called it middle ground,
So he took the journey back to share the fortune that he held,
Only then to find out the rain had drowned it when he left.
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