Lyric

Living in Japan, foreigner by name

Under the same sky, breathing just the same

“Foreigner, foreigner” — drawing that line

Building walls with words, but who do you define?

Labor running short, old streets getting colder

Aging by the minute, getting older and older

Still you turn away from the world outside

While the world keeps moving — nowhere left to hide

You can’t even love the woman by your side

Won’t work, won’t move, just blame and criticize

The gap gets wider while the voices disappear

But you point at foreigners like they’re the ones to fear

To me, that sounds like discrimination

One little word can create separation

Not your blood, not your nation, not your name

If you live here too — we’re sharing the same game

Surrounded by the ocean, a little piece of land

But that doesn’t mean your heart has to be banned

Different words, different roots, different views

Still waking in the same streets, paying the same dues

If you moved to this island nation, put your hands up high!

Where you were born don’t define your life

Revolutionary, brand-new — watch this island change

Kick down the locked doors, rearrange the stage

If you moved to this island nation, put your hands up high!

What are we leaving when we’re gone — tell me why?

Choose the future, don’t worship the past

We change this island — together, built to last

Generations of lives since the war was done

Roots in the soil, families becoming one

Zainichi Koreans, born beneath this sky

Living through the decades, watching time go by

But you say “foreigner” and put us in a frame

One single label, like we’re all the same

How many generations till you finally say

“You belong here too, you have the right to stay”?

“It’s an island, that’s just how it goes.”

But that old excuse won’t build tomorrow’s roads

Borders are lines that you draw on a map

Not lines through the human heart — remember that

Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto — lights collide

Different roots and different stories side by side

Who’s Japanese? Who’s foreign? Who decides?

Ask who will live together — that’s where the future lies

We’re different — that’s why it’s alive

Not the same — that’s how new worlds arrive

Different voices, different dreams, different ways

That’s how tomorrow gets built from today

Give me laughter, not the fear you spread

Give me neighbors, not the hate you fed

Not a future built on exclusion and division

But a future built on coexistence and vision

If you moved to this island nation, put your hands up high!

Where you were born don’t define your life

Revolutionary, brand-new — watch this island change

Kick down the locked doors, rearrange the stage

If you moved to this island nation, put your hands up high!

Don’t hide your roots, don’t apologize

Korea, Asia, people from around the world

Raise every voice — let the whole island hear it roar

Island nation—

That doesn’t mean isolation

Different roots

Different tongues

Different lives—

Building one future

From a thousand directions

The moment this island changes

Isn’t when nobody gets called “foreigner” anymore

It’s when we can stand together

Different but human

Without needing permission

The revolution isn’t waiting

Somewhere across the sea

It’s already here

And you island-born princes

Living soft behind your walls—

You don’t know our struggle

You don’t know our hustle

You don’t know the scars

That made us muscle

Our lives were forged

Where your comfort couldn’t reach

So remember this—

The revolution starts

Right here

Inside this sinking island nation