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ajan - colors lyrics

intro

“ayo!
where you?
where you?
where you from again?”

hook

red, white, blue
orange, white, green
red, white, blue
orange, white, green
i don’t know you
you don’t know me
i’m hindu, indian, and american
i choose all three
red, white, blue
orange, white, green
red, white, blue
orange, white, green
it’s in my blood
it’s in my genes
fifty stars into the fabric
and a chakra in between
verse

i was born in jersey, bred in boston
americans question it often
in india ethnicity’s fraudulent
tale of two cities, both places i’m foreign
don’t need your pity apologies, i’m a don
just know we dipping our parle g’s into chai
the only green that i’m rollin’ is in the paan
and all the bread that i’m sorting, yeah that’s naan
ay, immigrant dna, that’s my virtue
mixing my shake with masala mirchu
got some brown in my face, promise that won’t hurt you
if you boarding the plane, yeah they gotta search you
i am american, i been proving this
hide our culture so we can be cooler kids
i been losing bliss, we not new to this
i’m gon’ stand for my crew, yeah i’m true to this
this for the desh, this for the crowd
this for the kohinoor, this for the crown
it ain’t for the money, it ain’t for the honnies
this sh+t for my gully, we ain’t coming down
name is ajan, yeah that’s how it’s pr+nounced
last name patel, yeah i shout it out loud
i’m through with clowning, i done moved up out it
playing “dhoom machale,” that’s the signature sound
hook

verse

britain came in and kicked us to the ground
convinced us that they were the number one now
superior color to everyone brown
they stole all our wealth and put it in their crowns
oh how the tables have turned, man i couldn’t have guessed
that the same people talking like my culture less
got an om on her foot, and “chai tea” in her cup
yoga pants on her b+tt, oh my god she’s obsessed
all of my kurtis imported
i wear them with champals and jordans
we got the bangris and chunni
my grandmama’s jewelry important
there were times when they couldn’t afford it
when my parents ain’t have money sorted
at the hands of my family’s majuri
the next generation’s supported
oh they sacrificed, now i’m rewarded
i eat ‘cause they suffered through shortage
just as they came and they conquered
i’ll do the same so record this
f+ck all that feeling like tourists
imma be top of the forbes list
imma put the whole fam on the cover
‘cause perceptions of beauty distorted
hook

bridge

ay yo, where you really from? i don’t know
i’m an outsider everywhere i go
either they don’t see me ‘cause we ain’t on tv
or i’m abcd, that’s the way it goes
feeling alien, but we not alone
reppin’ n0desh, making that our home
now scream your colors, time to put us on
now scream your colors, yell it from the bones

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- ajan lyrics

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