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

Why is it so hard

To make it in America

I try so hard

To make it in America

A land of 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 far and wide

Then i moved to brooklyn New York

Had hard times But sometimes I hold on

Why is it so hard

To make it in America

I try so hard

To make it in America

Seems like nothing was going right

So I say to myself

I got to 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 this stress

But I couldn't get away

No matter how far I went

Seems like nothing gonna change

Everything still remains the same

Why is it so hard

To make it in America

I try so hard

To make it in America

Why

Tell me tell me

We gotta make a change in America

Helping somebody