When you look at me, what do you see?

I can guarantee we′re not so different

Citizen though you may not believeCause 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)