Lyric

Let me tell you why I lived my life

As a Korean in Japan — so listen up

The cards life dealt me were cursed from the start

Left with a Joker in my hand and a scar on my heart

Born dead last in a race I never chose

Fate carved in my veins, that’s just how it goes

No chances on the table, just battles and pain—

Every step I took felt like walking through flame

No job, no help, nobody reaching a hand

Just grinding under orders, trying to still stand

Working bottom shifts while they laugh in my face

Watching me struggle from their comfortable place

At hospitals they told me, “Koreans wait later,”

Left in the shadows like a ghost in a crater

A nameless truck parked in a hallway of shame

“Afraid of Koreans?” —

Yeah, I know the game

Hiding behind “justice,” in your mind I’m a threat

Imagining violence from a story you never met

But on the streets, hunger lit fire in my soul

Picking up scraps you tossed just to keep myself whole

Sweat, labor, and pain — that’s all my days became

Working till my fingers split, but I rose through the flame

Hook / Chorus

Every card in my life looked like a cursed

Joker

Outsider, survivor - I ain't handing hope over

Shuffle the deck, I still walk like a lone soldier

When the game ends

Ml turn every cursed card into gold —

I told ya

Verse 2

Even those cursed trump cards, I turned into tools

Teachers looked away —

I never fit inside their rules

Treated like a criminal, locked in a silent room, But hunger forged a warrior growing strong in the gloom

Turned shame into stamina

Turned pain into goals, Every scar on my body Is a story I stole

"Violent?" Nah — survival is what made me whole

Every day was a battle shaping fire in my soul. don't break, I don't bend - even in freezing cold

I grew tougher than anyone walking this

Hook / Chorus (Repeat)

Every card in my life looked like a cursed

Joker

Outsider, survivor — I ain't handing hope over

Shuttle the deck, I still move like a lone soldier

And when the game is over

I'll turn every cursed card into happiness and closure