Foreigner
Alan Z, Jason Chu
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When you look at me, what do you see? I can guarantee we're not so different Citizen though you may not believe Cause you look at us like we're just immigrants In this so-called land of the free Ain't no 40 acres with no picket fence Citizen though you may not believe Why you look at us like we're just immigrants? Everybody want a foreign, But nobody want to be a foreigner (Foreigner) Everybody want a foreign, But nobody want to be a foreigner (Foreigner) Sing a song of frozen waves and napalm flames (yea, yea) Fifty years her neighbors still ain't learn her name (yea, yea) Live in New York but they cut him on the train You know that ID card don't cut it when your face is held to blame (Noel Quintana!) Mike Nakayama was in training for the army Sergeant pointed at our brother: That's the face that you should target That's the 60s, ain't shit changed, just a function of the culture They love us, we a model, then they treat us like a problem Just their pawns, I had to get this off-my-chest, For our kings, for our queens, all the nights-they-bled Red as the American flag, we earned our stripes-I-guess Spit til I'm, blue-in-the-face I still ain't white, I guess? Microaggressive, yea, that's how we get this, yea Kevin Nadal proved it inflict traumatic stresses, yea Foreign in our own nation, 911, four days went by Balbir Singh Sodhi murdered at his gas station Everybody want a foreign, But nobody want to be a foreigner (Foreigner) Everybody want a foreign, But nobody want to be a foreigner (Foreigner) We came a long way from being immigrants, alien, foreign But they don't see us as real citizens, Sway In the Morning Tourists at best, intruders at worst, the way they perceive us Portrayed us on TV as weak: Made us hate our own features Anti-Asian propaganda on the back of pamphlets Either we're the Foreigner or Spy Next Door, like Jackie Chan flicks Model minority, that myth was fueled to have us gaslit Was also used to justify this country's anti-blackness Victims of Orientalism, whether you're born into this system Or migrated, stuck with the perpetual foreign Asian syndrome They're like: Where you from? Nah, like where you really from? Which one of your relatives did we go to war with in 1951? As a test of loyalty, they-want-us-to-diss our people for claps But-I'd-rather take a knee to that, than pledge allegiance, no Kap Anything-that-happens-in-Asia, they point at us even though we live here Been treating us like an illness, way before COVID appeared, I'm sayin' Everybody want a foreign, But nobody want to be a foreigner (Foreigner) Everybody want a foreign, But nobody want to be a foreigner (Foreigner)
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