I said this is a story all about how
A couple thousand islands got flipped upside down
Located in the middle of the water
I hope to show that land to my daughter
You see you know us for our culinary skills
And tropical resorts where you can dive
But still we need time to be healed
Cuz do you know how many of us died
Look
Tribal mentality with
Indigenous family's
We were talking to the matriarchs about or own vanity
We looked up to these women called the babaylan
Before we even knew about Babylon
It was tribe against tribe
It was life against life
We perfected agriculture
Fill the terrace and rice
But little did we know that terror comes at night
Like Lapu Lapu with Magellan we gon kill on sight
Nothing was the same when we met Spain
Because they put us chains and made us change our names like
300 Years of pain frame by frame
Converting us to Catholics many lives were slain
We were all getting slaughtered by the Spanish Armada
Aggravated by these words I hope you feel our pain
We were fighting for survival in Manila bay
Accepting some assistance from that USA
Its the treaty of Paris
Where the graffiti's apparent
Cuba, Guam, and Puerto Rico
We ain't treated like people
See us in the worlds fair
Habitat fake village
Little brown brother educated and pillaged
Dreaming for independence
But all we learning is English
And now we all immigrating
While throwing up middle fingers
We in America
But our home is in poverty
Even in the states we still living in poverty
Even on the farms we still treated like property
Our immigration waves like our own little Odyssey
Our history displayed like some ancient mythology
We ain't even get a page written bout our philosophy
We fought off the man
We even fought off japan
We marched to our death
We were promised our debts
We fought in many wars that we ain't even start
Dog tags on the chain Uncle Sam play ya part
Not even gold medals could replace the heart
The motherland is plagued from martial law
And in 3 days the people became raised and fight and survived people power come alive