Lyrics
Straight RefugeeZ
Verse: One
Escaping the Killing Fields, wasn’t no easy task,
Go get your kids; here come them killa’s in them red scarf mask.
Now that what my parent’s did, they couldn’t leave without there kids,
Even though it meant being homeless, we aint got nowhere to live.
So they ran cross country, we being five day hungry,
They were searching for the promise land, man that’s what somebody told me.
So they just headed up north g, cross the border into Thailand then became some refugees
We were waiting for some sponsors but they never got no answer.
Got us locked up in tents, and then introduce us to cancer.
We didn’t no what was the matter; we trying to climb up the ladder,
While they pockets got fatter, we was only seeing brains splatter.
They was only searching for a better place to raise all they children,
In 83’ got sponsor, we was chosen one a million.
But we didn’t know the promise land was gonna do us dirty,
I got folks coming up to me asking if I’m Chinese.
This place infested with disease, we aint got nowhere to leave,
So we just got stuck, on a mission to come up, trying to make a million bucks.
Chorus: (3x)
It’s less than twenty years, ever since we’ve been here,
We Straight RefugeeZ, we America’s nightmare
Verse: Two
My parents come over, searching for the promise land,
But the place they ended turned their kids into a monster man, mobster clan.
Ain’t showing no remorse cuz that’s what ya’ll thought me,
Filling up with sick thoughts, even since I was a little baby,
Damn it’s making me crazy, I’m always feeling kind of hazy.
I’m living in the last days. With the mask on is a sin but what if crime pays,
Then I don’t know which way, should I go, my brains bout to blow.
My lifestyles worse than a television show,
Police always kicking down doors, trying to fill this young Cambodian refugee with one of them 40 caliber holes.
But that’s not the way to go, for me, cuz I got dreams, I had seen, at an early age,
You say you playing on my level but I’m on a whole different stage.
I’m filled with nothing but rage, and homicidal thoughts,
A lifetime full of pain I know now it’s the cost.
To live in this place everybody call America,
I live to see another day but everyday it’s getting scarier.
When I look in the mirror, what I see is not me,
What I see is just another victim, victim of society.
Chorus: (3x)
Verse: Three
I’ve been here since 83’ so I’ve been in the game strong,
Had to correct my self on everything I did wrong.
Coming to America, straight refugee,
Aint knowing nothing, I was still a little baby.
But in less than twenty years,
I’ve been shedding more tears,
Than the average kid suppose to,
American lifestyles token all my friends I was close to.
Don’t cross that line before I smoke you,
I don’t want to approach you, not in less I have to jack you.
To help my family in need,
My parents brought me over to see me succeed.
But I be on the corner smoking weed, gang-related,
My parents hate it, but they couldn’t debate it.
Then done found out that this aint no promise land,
It would off been better sending us off to Japan.
