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[00:00.000] 作词 : Gordon Tsai[00:01.000] 作曲 : Gordon Tsai[00:23.608]A lot of corner stores, a couple laundromats[00:26.370]You ever wonder why Asian businesses follow track[00:29.357]Maybe its the gas-station owners or the restaurant[00:31.959]Serving exotic artifacts marketed with a racist font[00:35.132]It's called survival mode, which came from yellow peril[00:37.959]And all our immigrants took jobs labeled feminine[00:40.885]Hold it for just a second, the strongest people i knew[00:43.364]I'm talking all of em, are confident, my grandmother, were all women[00:46.801]It's just the jobs that needed filling the most[00:49.092]So don't confuse the given labels with the strength of the show[00:51.886]For those who did make it past, the Chinese exclusion act[00:54.974]Set up shop to send some back, worked the wok and made it slap[00:58.539]Cooked their way into the fabric of Americana[01:00.991]Stitches on the outline embroidered it as a badge of honor[01:04.002]That's how our culture intertwined with the nation[01:06.360]The patience of the first generation laying foundations..[01:07.725][01:09.467]This for our history, a slice of Americana[01:12.776]Shout out to all of the grandfathers who walked with honor[01:15.662]Took all the prejudice and hammered on the railroad tracks[01:18.328]Built a new foundation so that I could pen this type of track[01:18.854][01:21.436]This for our history, a slice of Americana[01:24.308]Shout out to all of my grandmama's who kept us stronger[01:27.214]Held it down through all the restaurants and holidays[01:29.797]Gathered round the table I reflect like it was yesterday[01:31.572][01:33.239]You got some engineers, a couple lawyers also[01:35.657]I love my doctors with doctorates who practice riding solo[01:38.768]Some took the route of being entrepreneurs[01:41.135]While others walked the street of finance let investments mature[01:44.016]I wonder if our parents constant nagging altered us[01:47.497]I wonder if their sacrifice was what inspired us[01:50.191]Taking the journey over with little to start from nothing[01:52.776]To give it to all their children to have a better beginning[01:56.555]Hmm... i guess the vehicle of schooling[01:58.648]Was using it as a tool to get out of a real oppression[02:01.930]And that's not all of us, I'm drilling to the root of it[02:04.531]The causes of the ripples the background to why we're doing this[02:07.765]I'm not a dentist, I wasn't an academic[02:10.188]I did have a desire to capture my life aesthetics[02:13.138]Tt happens to be through music, and i'm not the only artist[02:16.082]Take a look around i raise a toast to how we started[02:17.676][02:19.447]This for our history, a slice of Americana[02:22.183]Shout out to all of the grandfathers who walked with honor[02:25.035]Took all the prejudice and hammered on the railroad tracks[02:27.796]Built a new foundation so that I could pen this type of track[02:28.804][02:30.892]This for our history, a slice of Americana[02:33.635]Shout out to all of my grandmama's who kept us stronger[02:36.641]Held it down through all the restaurants and holidays[02:39.227]Gathered round the table I reflect like it was yesterday[02:41.125][02:42.581]Here goes a question that derived from insecurity[02:44.983]"How do you keep the power with majors and not minorities?"[02:47.830]First, let's make a system with a pecking order layout[02:50.635]Then you elevate a group with cash in other words you pay out[02:53.601]Keep them working silent, and reinforce that behavior[02:56.366]You tell em you're doing great and you write em up in the papers[02:59.283]Now the other groups will envy all the things that they get[03:01.962]Still oppressed but we call it 'model minority myth'[03:05.220]Let em think they winning but we'll stop em with a glass ceiling[03:08.102]Class ending, take these notes and pass em to your own children[03:11.051]Never buck the system, never bite the hand that feeds you[03:14.220]Keep you playing as our robin batman standing on the steeple[03:17.031]We'll say they're passive and they're better in supportive roles[03:19.692]Really that isn't true but the story will fit our narrative[03:22.547]Yes, it is imperative we stick to the script[03:25.040]Before the people find out the truth that this is all just a myth[03:26.832][03:28.794]This for our history, a slice of Americana[03:31.454]Shout out to all of the grandfathers who walked with honor[03:34.274]Took all the prejudice and hammered on the railroad tracks[03:37.069]Built a new foundation so that I could pen this type of track[03:37.563][03:40.167]This for our history, a slice of Americana[03:42.941]Shout out to all of my grandmama's who kept us stronger[03:46.068]Held it down through all the restaurants and holidays[03:48.627]Gathered round the table I reflect like it was yesterday