Singer: K'naan
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Song: Immigrants
K'naan - Immigrants Subtitles (vtt) (06:07-367-0-en) (PARTIAL PREVIEW)
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You know, and it gets into this whole
issue of border security
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You know, who's gonna say that
the borders are secure?
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We've got the house and the senate
debating this issue
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And it's...
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It's really astonishing that in a
country founded by immigrants
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"Immigrant" has somehow
become a bad word
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So the debate rages on
and we continue....
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And just like that it's over,
we tend to our wounded,
we count our dead
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Black and white soldiers wonder alike
if this really means freedom...
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Not yet
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I got 1 job, 2 job, 3
when I need them
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I got 5 roommates in this one studio,
but I never really see them
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And we all came america trying to get
a lap dance from lady freedom
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But now lady liberty is acting like
hilary banks with a pre-nup
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Man, I was brave,
sailing on graves
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Don't think I didn't notice those
tombstones disguised as waves
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I'm no dummy, here is something funny,
you can be an immigrant without
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Risking your lives
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Or crossing these borders
with thrifty supplies
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All you got to do is see the
world with new eyes
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Immigrants,
we get the job done
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Look how far I come
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Look how far I come
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Look how far I come
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We get the job done
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Look how far I come
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Look how far I come
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Look how far I come
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Immigrants,
we get the job done
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It's a hard line when
you're an import
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Baby boy, it's hard times
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When you ain't sent for
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Racists feed the
belly of the beast
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With they pitchforks,
rich chores
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Done by the
people that get ignored
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And it started
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And they awoke
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It's a whole awakening
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The alarm went off a
while ago
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Those who want, search
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But they label us hoodlums
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We are the same ones
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Hustling on every level
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Here's the details
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Walk a mile in our shoes
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Better buckle your shoes
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I been scoping ya dudes, ya'll
ain't been working like I do
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I'll outwork you,
it hurts you
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You claim I'm
stealing jobs though
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Peter piper claimed he picked them,
he just underpaid pablo
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But there ain't a paper trail when
you living in the shadows
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We're america's ghost writers,
the credit's only borrowed
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It's a matter of time before
the checks all come
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But...
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Immigrants,
we get the job done
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Look how far I come
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Look how far I come
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Look how far I come
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We get the job done
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Look how far I come
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Look how far I come
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Look how far I come
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Immigrants,
we get the job...
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Not yet
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The credit is only borrowed
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It's america's ghost writers,
the credit's only borrowed
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It's america's ghost writers
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America's ghost writers
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America's ghost writers, the credit's
only borrow-borrowed
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Americas ghost writers, a
credit is only borrowed
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It's americas ghost writers,
a credit is only borrowed
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It's americas ghost writers,
a credit is only borrowed
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It's
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Immigrants,
we get the job done
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Ay yo aye, immigrants
we don't like that
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Na they don't play british
empire strikes back
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They beating us like 808's
and high hats
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At our own game of invasion,
but this ain't iraq
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Who these fugees what
did they do for me
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But contribute new dreams
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Taxes and tools, swagger
and food to eat
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Cool, they flee war zones, but
the problem ain't ours
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Even if our bombs landed on
them like the mayflower
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Buckingham
palace or capitol hill
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Blood of my ancestors
had that all built
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It's the ink you print on your
dollar bill, oil you spill
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Thin red line on the flag
you hoist when you kill
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But still we just say "look
how far I come"
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Hindustan,
pakistan, to london
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