Phay - Immigrant Son lyrics

[Chorus] My immigrant son, my immigrant son This battle called life our spirit is one So raise up both flags, victorious one My immigrant son my immigrant son My immigrant child, you immigrant child You race with both races this road goes for miles You can't serve two masters but you have two homes My immigrant son My immigrant son My immigrant son [Verse 1] Strange, growing up I was ashamed House smelling like fufu, kid with the funny name I was outcast by the outcast I guess I was lamer than lame African clothes on picture day wait, hold up let me explain Cause I ain't fit in with the Sallys and I ain't fit in with the Johns And I ain't fit in with the Keishas and I fit in with Daquan I was too black for the white kids, too african for the black Too american for my parents friends so what was I to do with that? All i could do was attack And fit in wherever they let me But KMart never had bicycle license plates with the name Kelechi So I tried hard to impress these Kids who would never get me And accept these substitute teachers would never say my name correctly On dry land on a jetski A fish out of water Well lets be honest I was a real African American the definition of mixed breed So miss me With that “African Booty Scratcher” I'm an African prince Counting this paper like folding a cootie catcher want to know what pa**ionate is My bars are like the stars and stripes Painted over Green and White Naija blood is in my veins from my mother's love to my fathers might And we aren't alike cause I'm Igbo Meaning I got a big ego One time for the Super Eagles Two times for my Naija people The American dreams our parents have seen through me are becoming legitimate An immigrant son from the the mother land but Lady Liberty is the surrogate And we going after every single thing they told our parents they would never get I'm Nigerian. Im American Not bad for some immigrant sons [Chorus] My immigrant son, my immigrant son This battle called life our spirit is one So raise up both flags, victorious one My immigrant son my immigrant son My immigrant child, you immigrant child You race with both races this road goes for miles You can't serve two masters but you have two homes My immigrant son My immigrant son My immigrant son [Verse 2: Phay] Do you know how it is to be born in America? Still feel like a second cla** citizen I remember September 11th hit Now my citizenship is irrelevant Looking at me like a terror-or-ist Mama don't wear your scarf I'm embarra**ed And I can't even blink, can't even think Without feeling like I'm gonna need me a shrink Turn back around got me feeling I'm different Making me fear and hate my religion Culture my race, my family pride It's all been erased, all been deprived Now look at my face, look at my eyes And what do you see? Immigrant in disguise Immigrant in the minds of white Europeans Americanized And then I realized, we came to America Dollar and dream Malcolm X told me to get it, I told him I got it I'll do it all by any means Mommy wear that hijab, I promise you mom is the finest of queens Daddy can't thank you enough opportunity living right here the American Dream [Outro: Ezzie] Immigrant son, my immigrant son An alien cause only you are knowing where you're from And you gone have to fly to get where they get if they run My immigrant son, My immigrant son Immigrant child, My immigrant child The hate gon' make you strong but the strength will make you proud So go and kick your feet up, you gon' be here for awhile My immigrant son, My immigrant son, My immigrant son