Obama Nation
Lowkey
[Intro]
This track is not an attack upon the American people
It is an attack upon the system within which they live
Since 1945 the United States has attempted to overthrow more than 50 foreign governments
In the process the U.S. has caused the end of life for several million people, and condemned many millions more to a life of agony and despair

[Verse 1]
The strength of your dreamin' prevents you from reason
The American dream only makes sense if you're sleepin'
It's just a cruel fantasy,
Their politics took my voice away but their music gave it back to me
The land where their lumpen are consumed by consumption
Killing themselves to shovel down food in abundance
I guess a rapper from Britain is a rare voice
America is capitalism on steroids
Natives kept in casinos and reservations
Displaced slaves never given reparations
Take everything from Native Americans
And wonder why I call it the racist experiment
Afraid of your melanin, the same as it's ever been
That ain't gonna change with the race of the president
I see imperialism under your skin tone
You could call it Christopher Columbus syndrome
[Chorus]
O! Say can you see by the dawn's early light
(Is it Obama's nation or an abomination?)
(Is it Obama's nation or an abomination?)
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming
(Is it Obama's nation or an abomination?)
(Doesn't make any difference when they bomb your nation)
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through perilous fight
(Is it Obama's nation or an abomination?)
(Is it Obama's nation or an abomination?)
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming
(Is it Obama's nation or an abomination?)
(Doesn't make any difference when they bomb your nation)

[Verse 2]
The world's entertainer, the world's devastator
From Venezuela to Mesopotamia
Your cameras lie 'cause they have to hide the savage crimes
Committed on leaders that happen to try and nationalize
Eating competitions while the worlds been starvin'
Beat up communism with the help of bin Laden
Where would your war of terror be without that man?
Every day you create more Nidal Hassans
Kill a man from the military, you're a weirdo
But kill a wog from the Middle East you're a hero
Your country is causing screams that are never reaching ear holes
America inflicted a million ground zeros
Follow the dollar and swallow your humanity
Soldiers committing savagery you never even have to see
Those mad at me, writing in emails angrily
I'm not anti-America, America is anti-me
[Chorus]
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air
(Is it Obama's nation or an abomination?)
(Is it Obama's nation or an abomination?)
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there
(Is it Obama's nation or an abomination?)
(Doesn't make any difference when they bomb your nation)
O! Does that star spangled banner yet wave
(Is it Obama's nation or an abomination?)
(Is it Obama's nation or an abomination?)
O'er land of the free and the home of the brave
(Is it Obama's nation or an abomination?)
(Doesn't make any difference when they bomb your nation)

[Verse 3]
I don't care if him and Cheney are long lost relations
What matters more is the policies, I lost my patience
Stop debating, bringing race into conversation
Occupation and cooperation equals profit makin
It's over - people wake up from the dream now
Nobel peace prize, Jay-Z on speed dial
It's the substance within, not the colour of your skin
Are you the puppeteer or the puppet on the string?
So many believed it was instantly gonna change
There was still Dennis Ross
Brzezinski and Robert Gates
What happened to Chas Freeman? (AIPAC)
What happened to Tristan Anderson?
It's a machine that keeps that man breathing
I have the heart to say what all the other rappers aren't
Words like Iraq, Palestine, Afghanistan
The war's on, and you morons were all wrong
I call Obama a bomber 'cause those are your bombs
Write the lyrics for a rap song made in 2010, titled "Obama Nation", by artist "Lowkey".