Where you from, from?
So they ask me,
Where you from?
No, where you really from?
My gut tells me here, but your face says I’m wrong.
You see my blood runs through rivers under a hot latin sun, yet
My mom’s voice quivers when I struggle with my native tongue
No puedo hablar con ella
Cause you’ve convinced me my
Exotic ambiguity is
~ enough ~
Well I’m from a colourful home
Full of tastes and sounds that kept me on track
And my dad, he’s had my back, so yeah I feel Pak.
Packed with a heat of peppers so hot they actually live on opposite sides of the globe
And I’ve trekked and I’ve chewed those seeds
And kept their stems in my knapsack
So where’s my home field advantage
When half my team is following God’s plan and
Allah is in the stands yelling,
“REBRAND”
And I’m left scared to tell my father I’ve tasted pigs blood right from the sand.
Yet, here I am.
But where I really come from is
A place where we ask the land before we take with our hands
Give thanks to the plants
And don’t waste or make trash
Today’s kids are singing to guitars made of bottles and cans.
I’ve seen a rifled man and riffling hands all in the span
Of a week
At 14
What’s that supposed to mean..
To a young girl with big eyes and a dream to find a home
Where she can steady her feet?
Well she can't find answers on TV...
It’s filled with
Misconception and deceit
Of brown bodies
Having drug parties
Laying lazy in the street
When the reality is
Oppression, transgression, government aggression
meeting poverty
How are we to reach an audience
Of tourism and tropicana
When we’ve already built a wall so tall
Out of the letters of our transcriptions
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So it shouldn’t surprise when I ask you, why you asking me?
Your girl moves miles away and is still asking
Y U L
Looking at me, mumbling at me your ideology of who I’m supposed to be
Based on a language I don’t speak
Si tu as écouté une seconde pour entendre ce que j’ai dit,
Je suis d’ici
So as you can see, it’s not easy
To give you the answer you're looking for
Cause I am so much more than the ground floor of where I began this expedition of mine.
So when you ask me, where you from?
No where you really from?
I don’t got the time.
