THE MIRROR DOESN'T LIE
Mauricio Alexandro Lopez
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I know who I am I know who I am I know who I am Out of my mother's hands Slip into this motherland To fight for gangs Or be a slave for our uncle sam The street where you stand Must be worth a hundred grand Maybe the gun'll jam Before the summer takes another kid Haven't you heard About the people from the earth It was unknown to me Exactly who we were This patriotic flag didn't own this land first A tale as old as time Progression by massacre As a child I was taught Who kennedy and chavez were To always know my history Or become caricature When you fill out your ethnicity Are you stating a fact Or more aligned with the cultures Where your vacancy's at See i'm mexican Blessed to know brown excellence Every time I reach back Please believe I reach for you If I shoot for perfection I'll only know rejection Thats why I've never tried In my whole life to speak for you The biggest enemy of a mexican Is sadly mexican If you're not down enough Then they judge you at the entrances Then mix in trying to be successful Still brown as the dirt On the edge of a precipice Yeah, they only care about work I've learned most of what I know From black men When I was stumped by life Id see these idols and Id ask them In california a mexican man Is three fifths I wish you could empathize with me Without a prefix Dark skin or white skin They make money I wish I had a stereotype You can take from me Most of my latin's make a habit of that Where Im from they would rather be black At the grab of a hat Yeah they got passion for that Most of the n words Ive heard weren't from black lips Casually dropping it in a joke or in an ad-lib Would it be as cool if it was beaner or spic Despite our musical preferences Please acknowledge that your people exist On the shoulders of pancho villa's Hidalgo marching through cesar Without a funny gimmick Can you fill up an arena Somewhere yolanda is alive While we wait for a selena A strong resilient people The youth will see you as one of them Not me Im a hypocrite I can't even speak for it I never learned spanish So to them I don't exist Story of my life Where do I fit in with this skin History burned it with the fire The mirror doesn't lie Wasting my time tryna be enough Through my brown eyes I feel like one of us I see blue skies From the back of the bus I know who I am Wasting my time tryna be enough Through my brown eyes I feel like one of us I see blue skies From the back of the bus I know who I am Wasting my time tryna be enough Through my brown eyes I feel like one of us I see blue skies From the back of the bus I know who I am Wasting my time tryna be enough Through my brown eyes I feel like one of us I see blue skies From the back of the bus I know who I am I know who I am I know who I am I know who I am I know who I am
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