American - Mona Haydar

They don’t want to see me as American

See me on your TV as a terrorist

All I wanna do is have some fun by the beach, man

But here come ICE and that travel ban

They don’t want to see me as American

The only ones who been here are my native friends

All I wanna do is have some fun by the beach, man

But here come ICE and that travel ban

Why they gotta treat me like I’m alien?

Why they actin like I’m not American?

Why they so obsessed with what I’m wearing, man?

Got me sweating under their surveillance

Tryna regulate our bodies

Got these men all in our face

These ain’t tighty-whities

Wish they would evaporate

Wall around the country

They just tryna make it great

They the caca from that shithole

And their president is saying

Throw some bleach on that bitch

Throw some bleach on that bitch

Tryna keep it white on white like them ones with the switch

Throw some bleach in that bitch

Throw some bleach in that bitch

Tryna keep it white on white like a toilet full of shh…

Riding the tide on some mega waves

Afros and curly hair mega babes

Shut down the beach, had a mega day

We surfin around all the mega hate

Imagine no kind of misogyny

Where would I want no apologies

Show all these foolish men how to be

Gotta make my babies proud of me

This burkini my sunblock

This burkini my slingshot

They Goliath, I’m that rock

Try to stop me, I think not

I’m so high on this sunbeam

I shine bright, they can’t run me

Find me where the fun be

Not everything gotta be upstream

They don’t want to see me (How come?)

Instead of peace, they want policing (…)

So here I am all on your TV (Look at me)

On that beach in my burkini (burkini!)

Burkini!