The song delves deep into the long existing sensitive relationship between the North East and Mainland India. The song articulates both sides of the story and is presented in the form of a conversation that many think but nobody speaks about. It is created with an aim to spark empathy and build unit...
Who are you? What you even doing in here?
Pardon my ignorance, but lately too many immigrants in India/
Did you sneak in through the border, you look chinese/
I ain't racist, I just judged u based on how your stupid face is/
See, you got little eyes and no eyebrows/
What you think you Indian? Ha, I doubt/
What you think you Indian? Why, how?
Looking for the Indian, well, you staring at him right now/
Your girls dress provocative and party all night/
& when it leads to rape, y'all rally, alright/
Like, that's gonna make a difference, I'm sick and you're the sickness/
Most of you college kids just, alcohol and weed addicted/
You can say it's none of my business and I'm a frikking hater/
But I hate your loud music and I'm your frikking neighbor/
Most of you come to college, in pretext of gaining knowledge/
While all you do is just bunk and continue draining wallets/
Waste your time playing DOTA/
You still gon find a job, thanks to S.T. S.C. quota/
Living off government's sympathy/
Losing dignity like you lost your virginity, it's sickening/
& surely it was early, especially for your girlies, right? *2
Oh & to hell with you and your smelly food/
Every time you cook, it smell like yellow poop, makes me wanna puke/
You don't eat unless it's meat involved/
Chicken ain't good enough, so you eating dogs?
Sometimes you tryna to fit in, sometimes you tryna be different/
Sometimes you tryna be western, sometimes you tryna be Indian/
All I'm tryna say is all of this is very conflicting/
Why don't you make up your mind and then make a decision/
Be the person that you wanna be, really from within/
Not just be somebody cus it's convenient and play the victim/
This is the very reason for your region's terrorism/
You fighting for your rights, yeah, very convincing/
Man, stop the killing/
Oh & something's weird about your race/
You claim to be a man, I see no beard is on your face/
I hate the law, don't believe courts/
Justice is blind and blind is the key word/
So why, criminals running free for? & innocents wanna be heard?
While they imprisoning us 5 years for using the C word/
& we love Mary Kom/
Cus she represents her country and not just where she’s from/
It is necessary if we were to ever share a bond/
And care about each other, like our very own/
Are you Indian?
Do you wanna be Indian?
I am me, tryna fit in as an Indian citizen/
I can't pardon your ignorance for thinking I'm an immigrant/
I live by the border, the left side, of course/
You judged me by my face so it clearly makes you a racist/
Arunachal, Assam, Manipur, Mizoram
Meghalaya, Tripura, Sikkim and Nagaland/
This is the North east, seven sisters of this land/
We belong right here, not China or Japan/ no!
Living better but you feeling bitter/
Little eyes but I can see the bigger picture/
A bigger vision, maybe one day we can be together/
Coexisting in harmony cus we just sick of terror/
Josh mein hosh khoke, ladkiyon ko deta dosh/
Unke dress se bahot zyada choti to teri soch he/
Insaf ke khatir road pe, rally karenge roz/
Jab tak mile mulzim ko dund, rok sake to rok le/
We were historically oppressed, so horribly in excess
Inequality and a mess/
Discriminated, as minorities suppressed/
So, the authorities chose to give priorities to us/
Simple words: we deserve all the quota reserved/ *2
We ain't living off sympathy, if you ever feel differently/
Go and raise the issue at the ministry instantly/
Some of us try to fit in, some of us try to be different/
Some of us wanna be western cus you don't let us feel Indian/
All I'm tryna say is you put us in this very condition/
Why don't you make up your mind and then make a decision/
To let us be who we wanna be, really from within/
Let us be somebody with no restrictions or be the victim/
This is the very reason for our region's terrorism/
Yeah, we fighting for your rights cus the government isn't/
So, fuck the system/
Hail mary, this male's hairy and smells very/
Shitty, no wonder our women find you real scary/
When Gandhi got thrown off the train cus of his skin color/
That's the type of racism that's always been under/
The Britishers divided us and they left/
& up until this day, we still follow their steps/
We are slaves to our pride, where innocents pay the price/
Violently take a life, another mother she cries/
Another daughter is raped, another son has just died/
All of this sacrifice, just to prove who is right/
What's the point to be alive, if this the meaning of life?
If we keep up with the fight & never see eye to eye/
Let us be human, as humans, we empathize/
It's time to bring a change, it starts with you and I/
I am Indian/
Let me be Indian/
Are You Indian was written by Big Deal.
Are You Indian was produced by Big Deal.
Big Deal released Are You Indian on Sat Jul 07 2018.