They said they want to make you great again, like their ancestors...while I still try to find mine.
Bones hidden in the land of the free and the Earth is still soft but
Shhhhh, don't mention it.
Sweep it under the rug or hide it in the closet with the rest of the skeletons, let the cobwebs multiply
don't teach the truth to your children.
Erase the stories from their textbooks, America's dirty little secrets.
Don't speak it in public they wanna make you great again
Buildings built on the backs of my mothers, mix the concrete with the blood but,
shhhhhh don't mention it.
Make the story sound pretty when the boats docked on shore, you can call it Thanksgiving
give em blankets as gifts
put rifts in the numbers, populations decrease, kill the men and the children,
give them no peace.
Send the missionaries first then flood the people with diseases,
shackle them by the millions, board them on Good Ship Jesus
do whatever your mind pleases nevermind the tension
just don't say a word
Shhhhh, don't mention it.
They wanna make America great again like when trees bore strange fruit, limbs blowing in the breeze
Billy please sing louder!
Cuz they've already begun, and I can still hear the shots from the barrels of their guns.
And the Earth still trembles from the murders unavenged
its like their seeking revenge, their still craving the stench of the burning Black bodies
Swamps filled with the blood of the young, they wanna make you great again:
Motherless sons, fatherless daughters. Let the waters fill with their corpses
they wanna make America great again, they have no remorse.
Let's make tribes extinct, forbid them to think, take away their books
Teach them to jive and jook.
And if they ever learn to do for self, we'll just bomb them like we did everyone else, but
shhhhh don't mention Tulsa, or the bombings in Philly
they don't want you to know that their laundry's so filthy
They wanna make America great again, someone call the new Jim Crow
Is Trump available? How long before we can get these walls built?
Get these penitentiaries filled, we can have em picking cotton by the time the deal is sealed.
Tell the police it's ok to put their sheets back on, gather the crosses for the lawns
Rally up the KKK.
Their sons will be to scared to be like MLK,
no dreams, no visions
cuz they'll be next and we won't about em speaking like Malcolm X
Cointelpro was beyond their comprehension, just don't speak of these things
Shhhhhh don't mention it
They wanna make America great again.
-Hatshepsut Amun Re
Dayum!!
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