Trojanman
02-15-08, 02:52 PM
foreign language
i what i spoken my whole life
understood by the one who speaks it
me
is drowned in the symphony
of american english
sung by the orchestra
with help of the conductor
my characteristics
from my blackness
to the shoes on my feet
unpatriotic
the american heroes
look @ me as the evil villain
ready to rope me up
from their white ponies
or their mules
fueled by the need
to confirm their testosterone
hormones that flow in the blood
they were born with
immediate confrontation
holds hostage
the situation whenever me and them
see each other
the tension of muscles in the eyes
the nerve impulses
that bounce fear through the skin
the spotlight is on the hunter and hunted
with everybody watching
waiting for the first move
why are we fighting anyway?
a confrontation without conversation
you say i'm a foreigner yet you never heard me talk
expecting me to pull a green card
when i got a gift card to pay my bill
you say the cops are your enemy
yet you do what they do to you to me
i'm talking to you, black male
bet you got your cellphone
ready to call immigration
just to hear me speak
5 millimeters behind my back
ready to be that monkey
to open back up my wounds
that are still healing
and bleed whenever people like you
watch me
just to hear me speak
the foreigner language
you spoke this countries speech to me
with your curses and voodoo hexes
and i hit you with mine
and you were shocked to see me
repeat it back to you better than you spoke it
to me
silly you... part of the population
was misunderstood by your judgment
now you find yourself misunderstood
by your own ignorance
foreign language
is what i spoke all my life
understood by the one who speak it
me
misunderstood by you
yet you speak it too
so be quiet
and think before you judge
i what i spoken my whole life
understood by the one who speaks it
me
is drowned in the symphony
of american english
sung by the orchestra
with help of the conductor
my characteristics
from my blackness
to the shoes on my feet
unpatriotic
the american heroes
look @ me as the evil villain
ready to rope me up
from their white ponies
or their mules
fueled by the need
to confirm their testosterone
hormones that flow in the blood
they were born with
immediate confrontation
holds hostage
the situation whenever me and them
see each other
the tension of muscles in the eyes
the nerve impulses
that bounce fear through the skin
the spotlight is on the hunter and hunted
with everybody watching
waiting for the first move
why are we fighting anyway?
a confrontation without conversation
you say i'm a foreigner yet you never heard me talk
expecting me to pull a green card
when i got a gift card to pay my bill
you say the cops are your enemy
yet you do what they do to you to me
i'm talking to you, black male
bet you got your cellphone
ready to call immigration
just to hear me speak
5 millimeters behind my back
ready to be that monkey
to open back up my wounds
that are still healing
and bleed whenever people like you
watch me
just to hear me speak
the foreigner language
you spoke this countries speech to me
with your curses and voodoo hexes
and i hit you with mine
and you were shocked to see me
repeat it back to you better than you spoke it
to me
silly you... part of the population
was misunderstood by your judgment
now you find yourself misunderstood
by your own ignorance
foreign language
is what i spoke all my life
understood by the one who speak it
me
misunderstood by you
yet you speak it too
so be quiet
and think before you judge