Not Like You, Just Like You Lyrics

So, I asked you earlier, what would you say to your person

But if I asked you on a deeper level "what would you say to your people?"

What's the first thing that comes to mind?

Put your damn label upon me, by now man I'm used to it

Why try escape all the fuckery?

I'm intelligent and brother well spoken

Why try taking that from me?

Play your little race card, cool

Cause mum and dad found a little place in the country

I'm following the light yeah

The one your mum and dad had labelled a nightmare

Peak cause I get no sleep but awaken from dreams

And I've been lucid enough that I see myself

And the path I take but your face stay unseen

And I've been made unclean

Every time I sold us out like for a quick joke

For a white friend who I never pulled up

When they said something off-key

Then claimed that they misspoke

I know I was a prick bro

Look we're on the same team

From the same place

To the rest of them, we're the same peeps

With the same face

Let them roll their eyes and just squirm a little

It's between me and you, no further issue

We branch off from the same root

So peace why burn the bridge to?

Always been a rider

Don't call me an outsider

I deserve my seat at the table

And I'ma make shit liver

Cause I'm not like you

At the same time man I'm just like you, uh

Cause I'm not like you

At the same time man I'm just like you, uh

Make friends I don't need to

That's why I call them "my people"

You dare try take that away then cool

I know where you be, I've seen you

Cause I'm not like you

At the same time man I'm just like you, uh

Cause I'm not like you

At the same time man I'm just like you, uh

What race would you not date?

Indian...

I'm not physically attracted to them, so it's like in general

Every single brown man, ever

In order for us not to get treated this way

We also have to fight anti-Asian sentiment

And especially anti-Black sentiment

Yeah, this girl told me she don't trust Punjabis

I don't blame her

Our reputation kinda rude, kinda loud

And the brown boy badge don't do us no favours

And saying that I'm different sounds like a cheap trick

Like I'm just tryna get laid bruv

And she'll find out what I'm like later

But that's not the rep I ever hope to make

And yet I'm trapped in that just by association

We all descend from pretty broken places

It's a skill that we all hold our faces

In tact and act like we don't ever crack

Like our melanin pops but the pressure's mad

Harsh mums giving us tough love

Trauma that leads to us laughing

Even though it's fucked up

Cause we all got bars and we all got jokes

And we had to survive any way we'd cope

Don't gotta say much, both just know

Cah we both stepped off from the same boat

Took a lot of token spots

But we had to assimilate and hold that strong

Politician nowadays looking like us

But they don't really care so the hope gets lost

Friends claim that they don't care about race

Then go treat us like a joke and prop

White peeps follow IGs like "decolonise me"

But in real life don't see all that I see

Why even try man? I feel like a broken clock

I'm optimistic so I know I won't stop

But at times I'm tired of the fight

And I'm wondering why

When my own people went and told me

In different ways that I don't belong

Been persona non grata both sides

So I've been in no man's land this whole time

Now I pay no mind to these gatekeepers

Who keep changing the past

And say that they ain't seen it

We got a new regime, it's

Community that don't prejudge

Individuals is how they see us

No caste, no class, no boxes

Gates wide open, anti-toxic, yo

Want brown face but white qualities? Nah

We don't rate that self-hate policy, nah

Funny how you wanna oust me from the table

I make real change with my honesty, yeah

Always been a rider

Don't call me an outsider

I deserve my seat at the table

And I'ma make shit liver

Cause I'm not like you

At the same time man I'm just like you, uh

Cause I'm not like you

At the same time man I'm just like you, uh

Make friends I don't need to

That's why I call them "my people"

You dare try take that away then cool

I know where you be, I've seen you

Cause I'm not like you

At the same time man I'm just like you, uh

Cause I'm not like you

At the same time man I'm just like you, uh

KaeDee, no one has the right to gatekeep you

From what is rightfully yours by birth

From our ancestors to us here in present day

Put in boxes by the coloniser and the colonised

The coloniser has won!

They've normalised colourism, culturalism, racism

And now they sit back and watch us tear each other apart

I'm proud of you for refusing to let it happen

You could have easily given up and said

Fuck this, I'm out