Immigrants(We Get The Job Done) - K'Naan&Snow tha Product&Riz MC&Residente
You know And it gets into this whole issue of border security
You know
Who's gonna say that the borders are secure
We've got the house and the senate debating this issue
And it's And it's astonishing that in a country founded by immigrants
Immigrant has somehow become a bad word
So the debate rages on and we continue
And just like that it's over
We tend to our wounded
We count our dead
Black and white soldiers wonder alike if this really means freedom
Not yet
I got 1 job 2 job 3 when I need them
I got 5 roommates in this one studio
But I never really see them
And we all came America trying to get a lap dance from Lady Freedom
But now Lady Liberty is acting like Hilary Banks with a pre-nup
Man I was brave sailing on graves
Don't think I didn't notice those tombstones disguised as waves
I'm no dummy here is something funny
You can be an immigrant without risking your lives
Or crossing these borders with thrifty supplies
All you got to do is see the world with new eyes
Immigrants we get the job done
Look how far I come
Look how far I come
Look how far I come
We get the job done
Look how far I come
Look how far I come
Look how far I come
Immigrants we get the job done
It's a hard line when you're an import
Baby boy it's hard times
When you ain't sent for
Racists feed the belly of the beast
With they pitchforks rich chores
Done by the people that get ignored
Ya se armó
Ya se despertaron
It's a whole awakening
La alarma ya sonó hace rato
Los que quieren buscan
Pero nos apodan como vagos
We are the same ones
Hustling on every level
Ten los datos
Walk a mile in our shoes
Abrochenze los zapatos
I been scoping ya dudes
Ya'll ain't been working like I do
I'll outwork you
It hurts you
You claim I'm stealing jobs though
Peter Piper claimed he picked them
He just underpaid Pablo
But there ain't a paper trail when you living in the shadows
We're America's ghost writers
The credit's only borrowed
It's a matter of time before the checks all come
But Immigrants
We get the job done
Look how far I come
Look how far I come
Look how far I come
We get the job done
Look how far I come
Look how far I come
Look how far I come
Immigrants
We get the job
Not yet
The credit is only borrowed
It's America's ghost writers
The credit's only borrowed
It's America's ghost writers
America's ghost writers
America's ghost writers
The credit's only borrow borrowed
It's Americas ghost writers
A credit is only borrowed
It's Americas ghost writers
A credit is only borrowed
It's Americas ghost writers
A credit is only borrowed
It's Immigrants
We get the job done
Ay yo aye
Immigrants we don't like that
Na they don't play British empire strikes back
They beating us like 808's and high hats
At our own game of invasion but this ain't Iraq
Who these fugees what did they do for me
But contribute new dreams
Taxes and tools swagger and food to eat
Cool they flee war zones but the problem ain't ours
Even if our bombs landed on them like the Mayflower
Buckingham Palace or Capitol Hill
Blood of my ancestors had that all built
It's the ink you print on your dollar bill oil you spill
Thin red lines on the flag you hoist when you kill
But still we just say look how far I come
Hindustan Pakistan to London
To a galaxy far from their ignorance
Cos Immigrants
We get the job done
Por tierra o por agua
Identidad falsa
Brincamos muros o flotamos en balsas
La peleamos como Sandino en Nicaragua
Somos como las plantas que crecen sin agua
Sin pasaporte americano
Porque la mitad de gringolandia Es terreno mexicano
Hay que ser bien hijo e puta
Nosotros Les Sembramos el árbol y ellos se comen la fruta
Somos los que cruzaron
Aquí vinimos a buscar el oro que nos robaron
Tenemos mas trucos que la policí a secreta
Metimos la casa completa en una maleta
Con un pico
Una pala Y un rastrillo
Te construimos un castillo
Como es que dice el coro cabrón
Immigrants
We get the job done
Look how far I come
Look how far I come
Look how far I come
We get the job done
Look how far I come
Look how far I come
Look how far I come
Immigrants
We get the job done
Look how far I come
Look how far I come
Look how far I come
Immigrants
We get the job done
Not yet