Foreigner

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 forty 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 neighbours 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 sixties, 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 till I'm, blue-in-the-face I still ain't white, I guess? Micro-aggressive, yea, that's how we get this, yea Kevin Nadal proved it inflict traumatic stresses, yea Foreign in our own nation Nine eleven, four days went by Balbir Sing 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 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 propoganda on the back of pamphlets Either we're the Foreigner or Spy Next Door, like Jackie Chan flicks Model Minority, that myth was fuelled to have us gaslit We 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) Everybody want a foreign But nobody want to be a foreigner (Foreigner) Everybody want a foreign But nobody want to be a foreigner (Foreigner)