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Artist: (Kanye West f/) Gil-Scott Heron
Album:  My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Song:   Who Will Survive in America
Typed by: kirenamloh@msn.com

[Gil-Scott Heron - sampled from "Comment No. 1"]
Us living as we do upside-down
And the new word to have is revolution
People don't even want to hear the preacher spill or spiel
Because God's whole card has been thoroughly piqued
And America is now blood and tears instead of milk and honey
The youngsters who were programmed 
to continue fucking up woke up one night 
Digging Paul Revere and Nat Turner as the good guys
America stripped for bed and we had not all yet closed our eyes
The signs of truth were tattooed across our often entered vagina
We learned to our amazement, the untold tale of scandal 
Two long centuries buried in the musty vault 
Hosed down daily with a gagging perfume
America was a bastard 
The illegitimate daughter of the mother country
whose legs were then spread around the world
and a rapist known as freedom, free-DOOM 
Democracy, liberty, and justice were revolutionary code names 
that preceded, the bubblin' bubblin' bubblin' bubblin' bubblin' 
in the mother country's crotch
What does Webster say about soul?
"All I want is a good home and a wife
 And a children, and some food to feed them every night"
After all is said and done, build a new route to China if they'll have you
WHO WILL SURVIVE IN AMERICA?
WHO WILL SURVIVE IN AMERICA?
WHO WILL SURVIVE IN AMERICA?
WHO WILL SURVIVE IN AMERICA?

{*claps and applause*}