For how long we’ll remain here?
I’ve noticed
Time’s the best Neuralyzer
Cause it clears too fast
Our memories, intentions
Affection and promises
We’d made for people
That we okay not being with today
Don’t be a weak
You’ve gained
This opportunity
A chance
More than half of your friends didn’t
On that city
Thanks to that small community
That’d made it
From a land on Pacific
Specifically for labor
New place, keep fam close
New friends, new neighbors
Though similar faces
Cause they’re from
Where you came from
Y’all there to make dough
Shit ain’t a vacation
Wasn’t there to lay down
And stay home
Just stay long hours of day
On plantations
Playing a key role
In the economy growth of
Another nation
Nearly a century later
Ain’t economic being home
Again, broke
Plus, some of them might
Just wanna meet new horizons
Land of the rising sun
May rise for you
Head for the other side of the world
Your forefathers same situation
In factories
Instead of plantation
Eating obento
Work from home
Going home from work only
You had higher expectations
Before boarding
On day to day you see
How hard it is
Till receive
Your month earnings
Goals further
There goes murder
Routine
You’d planned to
Raise an amount of money
Go back to your country
And chase dreams
But when each day is the same
You end up forgetting
The reasons you came here
And remain here
- Lyricist
Thiago Makoto
- Composer
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1994
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A Boy / Side B
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Cherry Sanaru
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Ikigai
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2018
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