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)