From the recording Anybody Listening Pt.1: Monologues
Lyrics
THIRD WORLD CHILD
The seed was sown in foreign land
The roots across the ocean span
The soul still believes grain grows all year long
The tongue may be colonized
The ancestor's song is memorized
The pulse of a people still in my veins still resides
I'm a third world child
The first world bastardized
Visas, random searches, profiling
Subjugation the modern way
Times may have changed, change is still quite a ways
Don't internalize, try not to demonize
Spit out the hatred, don't swallow the lies
Always remember Mama and Papa's pride
chorus
Papers can't erase the scars left by scorn & disregard
Or the bitter taste of being second rate
You learn to take the higher ground
To be the jewel in the crown
Not to let anyone or anything keep you down
No I don't take it lying down