Why Is It So Hard (feat. Menahan Street Band)

Why is it so hard to make it in America?

I tried so hard to make it in America

A land of milk and honey, a land supposed to be built with love

It takes love and understanding to live and let live

I was born in Gainesville, Florida

I traveled far and wide

Then I moved to Brooklyn, New York

Had hard times, for sometime I hold on

Why is it so hard to make it in America?

I tried so hard to make it in America

Seemed like nothing was goin' right

So I said to myself, you gotta move away from here

I went to upstate New York, a little town they call Poughkeepsie

Got me a job to get away from all that stress

But I couldn't get away, no matter how far I went

Seemed like nothing's gonna change

Everything still remained the same

Why is it so hard to make it in America?

I tried so hard to make it in America

(Why is it so hard?)

Why? (Why is it so hard?) Tell me, tell me

(Why is it so hard?) We gotta make a change in America

(Why is it so hard?) Help me somebody