Body of War Songs That Inspired an Iraq War Veteran movie - American Terrorist lyrics

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Song by Lupe Fiasco<br /><br>

Close your mind <br>

close your eyes <br>

see with your heart <br>

how do you forgive the murderer of your father? <br>

the ink of a scholar is worth a thousand times more than the blood of a martyr <br>

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we came through the storm nooses on our necks <br>

and a smallpox blanket to keep us warm <br>

on a 747 on the pentagon lawn <br>

wake up the alarm clock is connected to a bomb <br>

anthrax lab on a w. Virginia farm <br>

shorty ain't learned to walk already heavily armed <br>

civilians and little children is especially harmed <br>

camouflaged torahs, bibles and glorious qurans <br>

the books that take you to heaven and let you meet the Lord there <br>

have become misinterpreted, reasons for warfare <br>

we read em with blind eyes i guarantee u there's more there <br>

the rich must be blind b/c they didn't see the poor there <br>

need to open up a park, just close 10 schools <br>

we don't need em <br>

can u please call the fire department they're down here marching for freedom <br>

burn down their TV's, turn their TV's on to teach em <br>

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[CHORUS:] <br>

The more money that they make <br>

the more money that they make <br>

the better and better they live <br>

whatever they wanna take <br>

whatever they wanna take <br>

whatever whatever it is <br>

the more that you wanna learn <br>

the more that you try to learn <br>

the better and better it gets <br>

American Terrorist <br>

(Terror) <br>

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now the poor klu klux man c that we're all brothers not b/c things are the same b/c we lack the same <br>

color that's green, now that's mean <br>

cant burn his cross cause he cant afford the gasoline <br>

now if a Muslim woman strapped with a bomb on a bus <br>

with the seconds running give you the jitters? <br>

just imagine a American-based Christian organization planning to poison water supplies to bring the <br>

second-coming quicker <br>

nigga they ain't living properly <br>

break em off a little democracy <br>

turn their whole culture to a mockery <br>

give em coca-cola for their property <br>

give em gum, give em guns, get em young, give em fun <br>

if they ain't giving it up, then they ain't getting none and don't give em all naw ,man, just give em some its <br>

the paper, then these cops must be al-qaeda <br>

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[CHORUS (2X)] <br>

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It's like <br>

don't give the black man food, give red man liquor <br>

red man fool, black man nigga <br>

give yellow man tool, make him railroad builda <br>

also give him pan, make him pull gold from river give black man crack, glocks to teens, give red man <br>

craps, slot machines...<br>

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