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She was a real nice girl, always talked with respect
And when she couldn’t understand she had fought to connect
She sulked in the back, of class with her head on her hand
…Cuz all the kids had took a crack at her, and damaged her plan
She had thought maybe, one day she could find herself at college
Where her learning wasn’t limited and hatred didn’t stall it
But she walked the halls with sonnets, beauty took her by surprise
…She was perfect in her figure, and a few of us would die
but the white girls really hated her, cuz she was not their species
she was foreigner to many, nor a breed to offer treaty
She had always felt the burning but they hit with harder stabs
…Look at her clothes, she might as well be wearing fucking garbage bags
Fucking spic, and she doesn’t understand what they said
But the hatred in their eyes, was all that she could detect
So she would detest, and head home within a walking distance
…Back to her kids, she has three that are needing doctor visits
and she kisses on her mama cheek to let her know she isn’t weak
she grew up in El Salvador, and fought to live within this peace
she plays with her children, throwing a smile across the mantle
…Because she really understands what it’s like to be thankful
take it to another man, carried here from out of luck
he pushed and pulled to make his way up to the front of every truck
he found himself a friend within the drivers of his carriage
…one was doing it for righteousness, some kid that wasn’t married
but he offered him a job, and said his dad had worked the land
cutting grass and building houses, all the uses of a man
so he proved that he was handy from the way he used his hands
…he was hired on the spot, and given proof that jesus stands
so he starts to work a 9-5 but times are hard when crime is high
he sits inside and cries at night, a picture of his child and wife
he goes to work, but it gets worse, cuz more and more he has to hurt
…Another man, with hands to grab to take him all for what he’s worth
when walking to check, to see if the talk was a jest
A lock on his check, his boss couldn’t offer him less
Im talking obsessed, he couldn’t stand to give him a break
…Worked him far beyond his limits, and demanded he stays
a modern day slave, a man never feeling his weight
and his other methods, lets just say the stealing aint great
but when that check is in the mail, he will smile in the handfuls
…Because he understands what it’s really like to be thankful
Take it to a teenager, whose past he doesn’t like to visit
Family is fucked and his teachers say his life is finished
Doesn’t give a fuck, cuz he’s got a bigger problem
…Doesn’t speak a word of Spanish, and he’s got a nigga noggin
Thug mentality, sorta had to put the hanging back
Felt betrayed by his people, cuz he’s banging with the blacks
kid’s cold as a stone, not the type that the people friend
…swearing to god he doesn’t care if his life will need to end
the year is almost over and his life is gonna change
doesn’t understand the magnitude, of what has been arranged
And so he’s shipped away to boarding school, a place where he was meant to grow
…But all that he can see, is how they think he’s such a failure so
he doesn’t give a fuck, what? you know what it’s like?
to be the only Spanish kid in a school full with whites
but he stomachs all his anger, and he starts to make a turn around
…he put his flag away and prays he never has to throw it down
he puts a staple in his tongue, to stop himself from losing it
racist in the mindset, the kids are nothing new with it
he even cuts his arms, puts designs within his upper skin
…to let him know the pain he feels will never be another’s sin
he graduates a figured head, a leader with the people’s best
but people said that he will never break the evil he has lead
but he is not the evil one, just a different kind of kid
…a smarter one with darker skin that rocked their fucking minds with wit
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