Welcome to America!

Chicago, Illinois

Oh this life,
My bones ache with the stress
We lavish in our freedom, nice cars and enslaved debt
While the rest of the world

Dreams...

They dream of what we've got
Life in America...
so stereotypically ideal
It seems

"If I could only wrap my children into the crevice of my chest
Wait in agony for years for the embassies to finally tell me 'Yes'
Make enough money,
Prove I am not a risk,
Anything, I will do it
Just to take care of them.

I will risk, whatever it takes
If they tell me no,
I will find a boat
This regime is killing me
We have got to go before my children know
to resist is to fight and to fight can mean death.

America we need you,
Save us from our fatal destiny!"

....

So Welcome,
You made it... Finally
Congratulations
and sorry for the lack of hospitality

Here's a cheeseburger though
Would you like fries with that?
Maybe a side of racism?
For here?
Or to go?

'America
The land of the free
Freedom and equality
For all to receive.'

'But your religion, you see , that has got to go
you must know,
Our forefathers founded this nation on the notion
of "One Nation, Under God."

But the "liberty and justice for all,"
We draw the line at your mosque,
your place to worship,
Our identity will be lost with that kind of corruption.

But jump in,
We encourage consumption,
overpriced education
and the nine-to-five compromise
of the family values your used to.

Join the association,
Here, you've got to work hard if your going to make it
You may have been a lawyer where you come from
But you hardly meet our standards here,
Take the bar again.

There is no use in arguing,
America is
The best country in the world,
Full of opportunity!

Try one of our finest universities
Your kids will receive all they need
to fit in to society.
$60, $80, $100k...they can be anything they want to be!

A businessman...
A teacher...
An architect..
What about a slave?
Did you come here for that?

You thought you left oppression, imprisonment and injustice
But when the prison walls of loans, pressure and debt cave in
and you can't see
Behind the tall beams of slavery
Lying to you by night,
telling you you're free
Haunting you by day,
telling you you'll never succeed

And you want to scream
And shout
Maybe turn to Mohammad
But wait, that's abomination here,
Suddenly, you can't see clear

"Why did I even come here???"

And your Arab children
are wondering why no one accepts them
Their foreign skin and strange scarfs
Just don't seem to fit in around here.

Here, in America,
The land of the free,
Where is the justice?
It is not here

So, what is the answer?
Go home,
join the fight?
Rise up?
Maybe something like...
ISIS?