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Chris Dela Cruz - I Gave My Heart to a Failing Country

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Track 1 from the album "All the Brown Kids at the Rock Show"

Album on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/chrisdelacruzmusic/sets/all-the-brown-kids-at-the-rock

They told my mom when I was 4
stop teaching your language or he'll be in school no more.
They put my brother in ESL
even though Filipinos know English very well.
My parents came in the nick of time,
the nursing shortage filled by America's former swine.
They called us savages,
now COVID ravages
my mom's dreams told in a language I don't know.

Look at my life, putting myself out there.
Look at their eyes, cuz they really don't care.
Look at that Dream, cuz it's going nowhere.
I gave my heart to a failing country.

Studied their cartoons, radio, music, TV, magazines.
Studied them like a model minority.
I called myself a coconut,
a 90s teenage dirtbag who never learned of
the Chinese Exclusion Act, the Watsonville Riots and
they never wanted us. They were just using us,
our labor, our model myth to keep people in line
and now, look, we're burning,
and they think it's just fine.
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