Gaby Palaviccini - IMPOSTER

There's a voice inside my head
Saying you're not one of them
And you know it
So stop performing

And there's a voice of conscious, and it's not my friend
It keeps telling me it knows exactly who I am
But that's too boring
It needs adorning

Cause it's too easy, hiding insecurities in the form of a color
Paint another over my face

And it's easy
Just to say, that I am but a race
But that just goes to say, that nobody quite understands this pain

Finding my truth didn't happen at school
I didn't know that I had my own ancestors too
No I didn't, no
Knowledge is power, gatekeeping coward
Hiding the parts that are cruel
You think that we're all too ignorant for our own good

Rewrite the story, but I know what's true
Is history too crude for you
Considering you had your hand in the fire too
But you created it, now you're pretending.
Say you're forgetting
Let me refresh your memory
Cause I've been counting, all of your crimes against my people and I

I never saw my face on TV
Like it was bad to take up too much screen
How times have changed I see
We're all forgetting and forgiving

Nobody talks of how lonely it can be
Walking the road of a 1st generational, brown and bilingual queen
But damn it feels good to be free

Cause I always felt like an imposter
But I am the daughter of my mother and father
But I'm no imposter
I am descendent of ancient warriors
I found my voice and my power
Cause I'm no imposter
I'm no imposter
I'm no imposter
Cause I'm no imposter
I'm no imposter
I'm no IMPOSTER

My story needs to be told
I'm tired of feeling unknown
In this crossroad of cultures that put me in this mold

Told me what to be, how to dress, how to speak
Surrounded by people who don't look like me
Traded my race for obscurity

For a long time I didn't associate, with the letters that roll of my tongue with such haste
I didn't mean to hate the beauty in my face
But I guess you could say I've repented my ways
Finding the grace in the history I claim
Guess you could say that I'm noble
Or you could just say that I'm woke

Cause I've struggled to find my identity
But now I look back and I see that
This whole time, I was searching for what was already inside

Cause I always felt like an imposter
But I am the daughter of my mother and father
But I'm no imposter
I am descendent of ancient warriors
I found my voice and my power
Cause I'm no imposter
Cause I'm no imposter
I'm no imposter
I'm no imposter, yeah
Cause I'm no imposter
I am brown like the skin on my face
I am born from the people that used to be called the lesser race
I am no IMPOSTER, yeah

I'm no imposter
I'm no imposter, yeah

Written by:
Gabriela Palaviccini

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