I Belong ft. Haillie Lyrics

This land is your land

This land is my land

From California

To New York Island

From the redwood forest

To the gulf stream waters

This land, belongs

To me and you

I belong

I belong

I belong

I belong

We started as a statement taken from the enlightenment

Self evident for those who were writing it

Life liberty and pursuit of happiness

If your skin was white and if you owned a home with a wife in it

Our country tis of thee, a land lacking liberty,

Black lives mattered only while they were building things,

Considered property, profit but what's bittersweet is

We're the chocolate where this melting pot get is flavoring

Manifest Destiny sea to sea

Spread west replaced natives that roamed free

Took their land and send them to reservations

We believed God gave us the authority

Then we invite the Chinese, who came to this country for opportunity ,

They built the railroads with the black folk who were

Increasing profits and allowing us to speed to west from east

We started an intentional War

Took Mexican land and claimed it as ours

Manifest destiny, our God's will to have

We spilled indigenous blood soaked up the red with our flag

The Irish came the Italians too - some hated that

The nativist told these group to go sailing back

To their country but they charged up our economy

Like batteries working industrial factories

Social darwinism placed limits on races

That could enter through Ellis

Based on a system that ranked

Intelligences and ethics

By measuring skull shape of the races

We through Japanese Americans in cages, took their land

Muslims want to come in peace, instead we placed a ban

Countries that have citizens of color were undesirable for immigration

Now like back then

But The pilgrims immigrated

The Irish immigrated

Italians immigrated

Germans immigrated

They came to land with the plan

To gain prosperity through hard work or innovation

Today it seems we make the mistake

Of forgetting U.S constitution rights are based

Not by religion, wealth and not by race

But by birth in this place, this is our fate

If you're human natural rights can't be taken away

Inalienable even if you're alien to these states

Freedom of speech to question government was the mission

Of patriots questioning the government of Britain.

Freedom of religion , You don't have To be christian

You dont have to have a house that a nuclear family all lives In

You dont have to be straight love your own way

You dont have to love guns or pray how I pray

You can speak your truth, truly cus the truth of this song

Each and every one in this room, you Belong