Americana - gowe.mp3

[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..
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[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
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[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
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[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
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[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
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[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