Jook Songs ft. Sita Sunil, Anna Stacy, Nicholas Leung, Miguel Sutedjo & Subin Kara Ahn Lyrics

Just a young Chinaman tryna sail for foreign land

He couldn't afford to be poor

Thrown from home, brother dead, I'm a fighter but I fled

Could there be any hope left on the shore?

Mm-mm-mm

Who'd have known we'd be placed in a prison for our race?

A cage in the ocean made of wood

Summer days turned to fall, sliced a knife into the wall

Mournful strokes, carving these words

Words that hurt

But the walls still won

Keep our dream in sight

Better life for future sons

Although they're gone, I can still hear them breathing this song:

I keep dreaming of a life in New York City and I

Keep believing for you, and although

All of our voices on the walls can't sing

Listen to me

We're more than just some poems on the wall

Listen to the history, come raise a brazen fist with me

I'll tell it to you quick as we engrave our rage in victory

We are the tired, the refugees, the poor huddled masses who yearn to be free

I'll make it out

Gold Mountain bound

I'll keep them out

Can't stop me now

Keep dreaming

'Cause even in the darkness there is light

Keep believing

And it's true

That through all of the hardship

We've endured so long

There's people like me now

I'm just a jook sing singing jook songs

Singing jook songs

Singing jook songs