Green Card

(album: PANORAMA - 2018)

Hey, hey, hey, hey
Papi had to jump the border, trampoline
Did it for the power of the green card
Can you guess what I mean?
Let me feel blessed, a man can't read (Yeah, yeah, yeah)

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Yo, holy
Daddy had no choice so he had to make a plan, uh
Daddy was a boy, now that boy became a man, uh
Barely 16 living in a foreign land
Now his little boy out here living out
His dream in LA, back to the A
How these 16s putting food up on the plate?
Boy, I knew I had to reach 'fore I even signed my name
Got me thinking 'bout the times when it wasn't all okay
We had to wait the longest, momma done prayed the hardest
She had to slang tamales so we could pay the apartment
God Almighty, what up Gawvi, 'bout to hit the tour with 'Crae
Daddy couldn't stick around and now I'm round the USA

Hey, hey, hey
Papi had to jump the border, trampoline
Did it for the power of the green card
Can you guess what I mean?
Let me feel blessed, a man can't read (Yeah, yeah, yeah)

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Tell me why you go all insane on us
I've been on the road, ain't a fan discuss
I been feeling down but they say just trust
How you get around in America?
Southside know my name
They know what I'm saying
Papi seen the pain
But he got away
They was shooting them balas
Ra, ta-ta-ta, ta-ta, ta
Daddy seen the kids die, yuh
I'm asking why, hey, hey

Oh, Lord
Ghosts in El Salvador, yeah
I had to fight through the war, yeah
They still gon' close the door, close the door

Hey, hey, hey
Papi had to jump the border, trampoline
Did it for the power of the green card
Can you guess what I mean?
Let me feel blessed, a man can't read (Yeah, yeah, yeah)

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