Same Cry Lyrics

We look up
We see the same sky
We look up
We cry the very same cry

[Jin]
See I'm a grown man
It hurts when I turn on the news to see what's going on in my homeland
The SARS epidemic could have been lies
Could have stand for, "Should Asians Really Survive?"
They'll try anything to break your family apart

Politics will break down the manliest heart
Can the child within my heart rise above?

If there's billion of us, I shouldn't have to look for love
Overpopulation, but damn just the meet the needs
It's illegal to have more than one seed
How can you dictate birth, regardless to women?
And the parents, they make the hardest decisions
Sons keep the family name - so that's not an option
Imagine being forced to put your daughter up for adoption
And even though it's beyond your control

Keep your head up, here's a song for your soul

[Hook]

[Jin]
If you don't know where you came from
You can't get to where you trying to go
Ain't no denying so
It's true - I got some big shoes to fill

But if I don't lead the movement, then who will?
Stuck between a rock and a hard place
Thinking about the refugees that went to see God's face
Sixteen-thousand miles across the ocean tides
Some died, some got lucky and survived
I wouldn't call it luck - they reached their destination
Modern day slavery without the plantation
Them sneakers on your feet cost a hundred a pop
My people's making fifty cents a day at sweatshops
To make them kicks so you can look good

You think we open restaurants cause we cook good?
Hell no, we ain't got no choice

I gotta speak up - without me, my people have no voice
[Hook 2X]

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Genius Annotation

Closing in on the final pair of tracks on Jin’s debut album, Jin explores issues that he feels are best representative of the Chinese identity:

  1. The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989
  2. The SARS epidemic of 2003
  3. China’s one-child policy
  4. Ongoing hardships with sweatshops and immigration

Very likely intended to be a love letter to the Chinese community, Same Cry stands in the same company with Tupac’s Keep Ya Head Up as a fight song for the downtrodden.

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October 19, 2004
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