Yeah, now I´m a rock-star, it started with my imagination Used to gaze at the twins before the birds hit ´em Daydream about the God, my axe, my Excalibur A man, who just saw the future beyond the dishwater
Yeah, cab driver used to gyspy cab rider But she stuck with me when I had nothin´, so I had to wife her And I used write these thoughts on a black and white notebook Haitian experience, now I´m a page in a book I´m a Haitian, Haitian When I landed in America, ´Merica I got myself a green card, green card Mamma say, if I ever break the law, they gon´ send me back home This is my Haitian experience First stop out in England, England Immigration send me back to Washington, Washington Said I need a visa if I wanted to be in the United Kingdom I pray that the Queen of Buckingham is listening Your Highness, I got a palace out in Port Au Prince
I got a hundred acres and a whole lotta land But I can´t go back and see my people in the ticks I´m a Haitian in America When papa first got his green card, worked seven jobs in America Then he came and got me from Haiti, told me I had one chance To make it in America In the legal Valley and lookin´ for work in Manhattan in America My papa was a Haitian, Haitian He got to America, ´Merica On a six month visa, visa When the visa expired, he went underground like rats in the sewer This is the Haitian experience Runnin´ from the Immigration interrogation But his vision was his chosen
(How you gon´ get us to New York?) Absolute lost and at sea and never see the airport Yeah, I pray that the President is up there listenin´ Your Excellence, I got a palace out in Port Au Prince I got a hundred acres and a whole lotta land So we go move from detention, we go, we build the land I´m a Haitian in America When papa first got his green card, worked seven jobs in America Then he came and got me from Haiti, told me I had one chance To make it in America So I learned to play guitar with dreams of becomin´ a rock star (In America)
(I´m a Haitian) I´m a Haitian in America When papa first got his green card, worked seven jobs in America Then he came and got me from Haiti, told me I had one chance To make it in America In the legal Valley and lookin´ for work in Manhattan in America What we gon´ do right now is we gon´ go back Way back To what I call Lassie The roots, the Haitian experience Let´s go Look in her eyes, she will survive She smiles like she´s in love She´s 21, she lost her feedin´ arms But she ain´t lose her soul, dancin´ outta control
Like Angelina Ballerina Like Angelina Ballerina Like Angelina Ballerina Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na Yes, I´m a Haitian in America When papa first got his green card, worked seven jobs in America Then he came and got me from Haiti, told me I had one chance To make it in America In the legal Valley and lookin´ for work in Manhattan in America Man, I just got on a plane leavin´ Haiti And I landed in Brooklyn, New York City, Cooney Island Marlboro Projects, man, in projects, it´s so rough to blend in I learned to how to rock, sing, dance, pop, loc, whatever it took
[Foreign Content] Yeah, that´s my dad, a Haitian livin´ in America