Tainted - Emilio Rojas

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…

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

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…

What’s the expectation for Hispanic males?

They say we gettin' women pregnant or stayin' in jail

They told us we supposed to be the plug

We supposed to be the kingpin on boats that’s filled with drugs

We supposed to be the ones that sellin' cocaine or sellin' crack

Who got our daughters at the border with orders

We been to hell to back

Out chasin' ass, not takin' care of our fam

With aliens up in the crib like it’s American Dad

Wanna hoard us up till the border’s shut

And exploit our women, use our daughters for they lust

And they caught them immigrants, don’t see no laws as just

But they wanna pimp us just to save a couple bucks

And they keep us workin' class, less than a minimum wage servancin'

Our women visitin' surgeons to get the perfect ass

They got ‘em thinkin' that bein' vixens' the only path

To get somebody to love ‘em or get that Birkin bag

I got a letter from a girl who about to graduate

She got straight A’s and told me she can’t get financial aid

‘Cause both her parents is illegal

They brought her when she was two

And she still ain’t got our freedoms

But she can join the army and enlist in it

So basically she can die for this country but she can’t live in it

While we globalizin' the third world and we cripple it

We runnin' round like we the victims, the shit is sickenin'