Blue October - Any Man In America lyrics

rate me

Listen…

I only know spending time away

I only know the truth is spoken

Best when brutally, so honestly

I let you know you set the standards

Lyrically for me

One single middle finger saying

Raise it up. My speech will always be free

Like Martin Luther King, you had meaning to me

Singlehandedly, saving music starving industry

A hip hop legend with skin like invisible ink

Like 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.

Just when I miss my daughter desperately,

Your mockingbird put 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 saw it fit

To turn the trick that financially she would benefit

My first and probably only Billboard hit

Was going to 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.

But you don't know. You act like you believe it

That you're in control

It's just your legal system though

Ya, they don't think about it

No, they don't care about it

Now every man in America take back your control

Now you don't know. You act like you believe it

That you're in control

It's just your legal system though

Ya, 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 and 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

Ya fuck that judge, fuck the county, fuck your family too.

Ya, fuck everybody that took my baby girl, Blue

And I'm way too strong, I work my ass off all day long

And I'm gone for months at a time,

When 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 trying

I'm sick of you instead 'cause

I'm not sick, dope in my head

Any other man in America can get screwed just like me. Ya.

Now you don't know. You act like you believe it

That you're in control

It's just your legal system though

Ya, they don't think about it

No, they don't care about it

Now every man in America take back your control

Now you don't know. You act like you believe it

That you're in control

It's just your legal system though

Ya, they don't think about it

No, they don't care about it

Now every man in America take back your control

You don't understand, probably never will

Listen slowly, I'll let you know the deal

Lying ass, play the judge with your crying ass

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. 'Til you've 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 and take my youngest from me

You a dummy, honey. I'll chase you cross the country

Bring your drama to your mama, and your mama's mama.

Cause we all know, you're chasing after commas

A couple checks, a few houses, and Gucci blouses

You changing dicks like you changing outfits

Constitution's now-a-days got the daddy's losers

While fathers getting fucked like prostitution

You don't know. You act like you believe it

That you're in control

Well, it's just your legal system though

No, they don't think about it

No, they don't care about it

Every man in America can lose control

You don't know. You act like you believe it

That you're in control

It's just your legal system though

Ya, they don't think about it

No, they don't care about it

Now every man in America take back your control

Now you don't know. You act like you believe it

That you're in control

It's just your legal system though

Ya, they don't think about it

No, they don't care about it

Now every man in America take back your control

Now you don't know. You act like you believe it

That you're in control

It's just your legal system though

Ya, they don't think about it

No, they don't care about it

Now every man in America take back your control