Sweep Your Own Snow

The world is on fire

And there is no sign of rain

Beaten and terrorized

Resilience is towards my pain

It seems that we're always escaping from somewhere

And if that's so

Will we ever be home?

Othered and bullied

Mastering the stiff upper lip

They make us apply

Then deny us our membership

Move out of the way

Go back to your country

I thought this was my country

Show shame, small heart

Be careful, live cautiously

Thesе are the words that my mother еngrained in me

Sweep your own snow

You must sweep your own snow

If there's no solution then there isn't a problem

Sweep your own snow

Don't offer up more than you owe

Just worry 'bout you

And sweep your own snow

It keeps getting worse and there is no end in sight

It's yet one more war that we never wanted to fight

We came here in search of a life, a future

For the promise that is America

Show shame, small heart

Be careful, live cautiously

But what if that isn't the person I want to be?

Sweep your own snow

You must sweep your own snow

You can't be consumed by the struggles of others

Sweep your own snow

You're safer just laying low

So stay in the yard

And sweep your own snow

The victims of misogny

Now sprinkled with white supremacy

Sadly the perfect recipe

For turning us into the enemy

Blamed for the virus

Blamed for the ruin

Blamed for the anguish

Blamed, attacked and now

Enough

It's enough

Maybe by seeing you swallow so much

I was able to find my own voice

Huh-uh-uh-uh

Huh-uh-uh-uh

Huh-uh-uh-uh

Sweep my own snow

I can't just sweep my own snow

I will sweep and I'll push and I'll fight

To honor my mother

Sweep my own snow

I finally learned to say no

For the women who came before

And the women who are next

I don't have a choice

This is my snow

Huh-uh-uh-uh

Huh-uh-uh-uh