[Hook]
I wonder where my place is
But I won’t choose a side
So tell me where do I stand
They said that we got tainted but fuck you
That’s why I’m the way that I am
I wonder where my place is
But I won’t choose a side
So tell me where do I stand
They said that we got tainted but fuck you
That’s why I’m the way that I am
I’m the way that I am, I’m the way that I am
I’m the way that I am, I’m the way that I
I’m the way that I, I’m the way that I am
I’m the way that I am, I’m the way that I am
I’m the way that I am, I’m the way that I…

[Verse One]
They told my mom to fuck her own kind
Go and find somebody white
A white man that’ll love and treat you right
A white man that ain’t gonna need a wife
Just to make sure his paperwork right
They said my father was a fuckin’ spic
And the thought of it disgusted them
Like how the hell’d you fall in love with him?
God forbid y’all gon’ have a couple kids
Better hope that god forgive what you done to them
They like, “Emilio, where you gonna fit?”
High school lunch room, where you gonna sit now?
They told my mama if he gonna speak Spanish
Better keep his dirty ass up in the crib, right?
That’s just how it is, right?
In a small city full of small minds
Growin’ up in an American apartheid
And then my mama used to tell me it’ll be alright
And then I hear her cryin’ all night like damn