o america can you explain ?
O great america
we fight for
This beautiful disaster
An unfinished symphony
we survive and thrive
Searching for equality
O america can you explain?
O america filled with different people
no one is the same
Living here gives pride we seek
still we act deaf
chains rocking back and forth on that ship
gun shot of people getting hit
whips burn and rip
Ghosts never return.
Hiding from screams of abuse.
yet democracy thrives
O america you crave attention
You want more still you need.
You lead a coward to power
Thinking he is the law
Black men blamed
Segregation ended in 1954.
still we act divided
People are out here dying
Over being different
O america can you explain ?
Our coward is trying to build a wall
To keep everyone out
Which use to be somewhere to come
wanting freedom.
Something we got not long ago
They have different values
That makes them weird
They don’t speak good english
That makes them dumb
O america can you explain?
Schools became a battle field
Loud noise replace with gunshots
Cries roaring over the school
Kid goes in
won’t come back so soongetting guns for free in the FL juuling in school mess up lungs bullying in school got kids killing themselves
kids studying
only for one test
O america can you explain ?
Pride so many have it
It has so many different meanings
pride in yourself
For being what makes you
But some have a problem with you
Because you dress and act differently
That makes you crazy
1991, Sonia Rescalvo Zafra
45 yr old woman
Beat to death for being trans
2016 pulse nightclub
Mass shooting killed 49
O America can you explain ?
2019 and we are no longer the same
more rights still nothing changed
only to act like animals
taste and feel freedom everyday
America as beautiful as we seem
We no longer have the dream
fighting for this country
gets tired some
Living in america
gets frighten some
america what we doing
we stand for unjustice system
O america can you explain?