America, the Beautiful - Homeboy Sandman

Running water

Three bedrooms

A public school for every quarter

A store on every corner

A public defender, appointed to every pauper

Affordable Jet Blue

Any one of you can board a flying saucer

Access to cough drops and pork chops

Sports facilities in the vicinity for free

You must be kidding me this ain’t the place to be

America

Minimum wage they could pay you

You could praise

You could choose who you pray to

Regardless who you choose as your God

Workers comp if you get hurt at your job

Food stamps, benefit cards

Ain’t lousy

Child labor laws

Section 8 housing

I spy gas and oil power

WiFi and lots of phone towers

The post office and the bus station

And the train station and the fire and the sanitation

Departments

Eviction laws will buy you 6 extra months in your apartment

The public park and the park bench

The streetlights in the darkness

It’s all awesome, and it’s all since

America

Okay the streets aren’t paved with gold

At least they paved tho

Weaker than the euro, stronger than the peso

But you get what you pay for, so be grateful

Think you the only file in the caseload?

This is a crazed, unsafe globe, case closed

Complaining oh so much

Where else do people even think they’re owed so much?

We are the 99% locally

We are the 1% globally

Take a trip where women fertilize their ovaries and diagnosis is «hopefully»

It’s sobering

Cut the «woe is me»

It’s a work in progress and it may always be

But even overseas opportunity is known to be in

America