Why Is It So Hard - Charles Bradley, Menahan Street Band

Why is it so hard

To make it in America 2x

I try so hard

To make it in America

A land with milk and honey,

A land supposed to be built with love

It take love and understanding

To live and let live

I was born in Gainesville florida

I traveled for and wide

then i moved to brooklyn, New York

Had hard times…

So I say to myself

looks like nothing gonna change

I got to move away from here

I wanna save New York

a little town they call Poughkeepsie

got me a job

to get away from all this stress

but I can’t away

no matter how far I went

looks like nothing gonna change