Immigrants (We Get the Job Done)

You know, and it gets into this whole issue of border security, you know?

Who's gonna say that the borders are secure?

We've got the House and the Senate debating this issue, and it's

It's really astonishing that in a country founded by immigrants

"Immigrant" has somehow become a bad word

So the debate rages on and we continue

And just like that, it's over

We tend to our wounded, we count our dead

Black and white soldiers wonder alike if this really means freedom

Not yet

I got one job, two jobs, three when I need them

I got five roommates in this one studio, but I never really see them

And we all came America

Trying to get a lap dance from Lady Freedom

But now Lady Liberty is acting like Hillary Banks with a prenup (Banks with a prenup)

Man, I was brave, sailing on graves

Don't think I didn't notice those tombstones disguised as waves

I'm no dummy

Here is something funny

You can be an immigrant without risking your lives

Or crossing these borders with thrifty supplies

All you got to do is see the world with new eyes

Immigrants, we get the job done

Look how far I come

Look how far I come

Look how far I come

We get the job done

Look how far I come

Look how far I come

Look how far I come

Immigrants, we get the job done

It's a hard line when you're an import

Baby boy, it's hard times when you ain't sent for

Racists feed the belly of the beast

With they pitchforks, rich chores

Done by the people that get ignored

Uh, ya se armó

Ya se despertaron

It's a whole awakening

La alarma ya sonó hace rato

Los que quieren buscan, pero nos apodan como vagos

We're the same ones hustling on every level

Ten los datos

Walk a mile in our shoes, abróchense los zapatos

I been scoping y'all dudes

Y'all ain't been working like I do

I outwork ya, it hurts ya

You claim I'm stealing jobs, though

Peter Piper claimed he picked them, he just underpaid Pablo

But there ain't a paper trail when you livin' in the shadows

We're America's ghost writers, the credit's only borrowed

It's a matter of time before the checks all come

But

Immigrants, we get the job done

Look how far I come

Look how far I come

Look how far I come

We get the job done

Look how far I come

Look how far I come

Look how far I come

Immigrants, we get the job (Not yet)

The credit's only borrowed

It's America's ghost writers, the credit's only borrowed

It's America's ghost writers

America's ghost writers

America's ghost writers, the credit's only borrow-borrowed

America's ghost writers, the credit's only borrowed

It's Americas ghost writers, the credit's only borrowed

It's Americas ghost writers, the credit's only borrowed

It's Am-

Immigrants, we get the job done

Aye yo aye, immigrants, we don't like that

Nah, they don't play, British empire strikes back

They beating us like 808s and high hats

Uh-oh, wrong game of invasion, this ain't Iraq

Who these fugees? What did they do for me

But contribute new dreams

Taxes and tools, swagger and food to eat?

Cool, they flee war zones, but the problem ain't ours

Even if our bombs landed on them like the Mayflower

Buckingham Palace or Capitol Hill

Blood of my ancestors had that all built

With the ink you print on your dollar bill, oil you spill

Thin red line on the flag you hoist when you kill

But still, we just say "Look how far I come"

Hindustan, Pakistan to London

To a galaxy far from their ignorance

'Cause

Immigrants, we get the job done

Por tierra o por agua

Identidad falsa

Brincamos muros o flotamos en balsas

La peleamos como Sandino en Nicaragua

Somos como las plantas que crecen sin agua

Sin pasaporte americano

Porque la mitad de gringolandia es terreno mexicano

Hay que ser bien hijo de puta

Nosotros les sembramos el árbol y ellos se comen la fruta

Somos los que cruzaron

Aquí vinimos a buscar el oro que nos robaron

Tenemos más trucos que la policía secreta

Metimos la casa completa en una maleta

Con un pico, una pala

Y un rastrillo

Te construímos un castillo

¿Cómo es que dice el coro, cabrón?

Immigrants, we get the job done

Look how far I come

Look how far I come

Look how far I come

We get the job done

Look how far I come

Look how far I come

Look how far I come

Immigrants, we get the job done

Look how far I come

Look how far I come

Look how far I come

Immigrants, we get the job done (Not yet)