Coming To America

This K'naan

This goes out to anybody that's ever had to leave their home

I came out of a killer, neighborhood called River

Where life expectancy is shorter than a caterpillar

I was once a guerrilla, Mogadishu was my cage

My trainer was the gauge, AK was my baby sitter

While we be out and looting, the whole city was shooting

I know it's fucked up but somehow, that sound became soothing

Niggas heard African rappers and thought about them foofoo

You superman, tell the real soldier boy come to shoot you

Sexual intercourse what you in nigga

Fuck what you heard, yeah nigga

Come walk in the dark no fear nigga

It's a dry in my eyes no tear nigga

Working malaria, your hood can't really compare here

Got keys, they really love barrier

Come near here, I'm daring you

I'll shoot you not being afraid

Life gave me a rock and a lemonade

Blew up my school in the 8th grade while playing catch with a hand grenade

Yeap, that's a true story, this ain't Hollywood glory

I ain't the prince of Zamunda, dog, my life is too gory

I'm tired of always going through barriers

I just wanna live a good life

So I'm coming, coming to America,

I hope we gonna have a good time

Baby thanks for letting me marry ya

A green card sure looks fine

So I'm coming, coming to America,

I hope we gonna have a good time

Now my second home city, what can I say

It took my fucking heart from me

I played the judge part pardon if I'm larceny

Oh yeah, that mean it never got no bars for me

T-dot O to the motherfuckering dot B

And the Rexdale project [?]

Fuck puck but it ain't no hockey

When the cops came, they knocked me, they got me

I had to flee, they said to bargain, I had to plea

So I crossed the border while they put a warrant out for me

I'm tired of always going through barriers

I just wanna live a good life

So I'm coming, coming to America,

I hope we gonna have a good time

Baby thanks for letting me marry ya

A green card sure looks fine

So I'm coming, coming to America,

I hope we gonna have a good time

I know, everywhere in the world, got his problems

Everybody got a dream, of the green, to dollars

But some of us are dying in the streets can you figure out

Even in America the hoods need a ticket out

I know, everywhere in the world, got his problems

Everybody got the dream, of the green, to dollars

But some of us are dying in the streets can you figure out

Even in America the hoods need a ticket out

I'm tired of always going through barriers

I just wanna live a good life

So I'm coming, coming to America,

I hope we gonna have a good time

Baby thanks for letting me marry ya

A green card sure looks fine

So I'm coming, coming to America,

I hope we gonna have a good time.

I hope we gonna have a good time.

I hope we gonna have a good time.