Dedicated to my brother Raymond Liang
03.20.20

Intro
As it is written: “a brother is born for a time of adversity.”
Verse 1
喺澳洲, we went fishing with Dad,
Walking round 啲石度, looking for crabs, Poking at anemone’s ’til they mad.
Looking back, I have a feeling we were bad. Glad I have memories like these,
Feeling the misty ocean breeze,
Coming home to Auburn and gum trees, Housing colorful lorikeets.
Blaxcell Street playing Yu-gi-Oh,
Eating pizza by Yupi, so,
Username was Yupi Rayimo,
畀我一个 gummy please 大老.
Big bro, 你教我一加一是二,
数学只变成好⻤易.
因为你, I face math with ease. Having you, O God has gifted me.
’06, I learned 唔给出街, Streets 有很多坏人, bad guys,
Lock the doors to the outside,
Never thought to ask my parents why, We moved to such a bad place, Thought I could save my parents’ face, If I kept quiet in this place,
My new country, United States.
Chorus
People asking when we stopped saying “oi,” Pokemon catch ‘em on the Gameboy, Growing up, we learned to share the same joys,
Mama Mama, they weren’t just lame toys
Verse 2
Woke and, Auburn, turned to, broke lands, Oakland.
Homeless, round us, found us, astounded, land we trust.
Games helped, tame us, shape us, same us, can adjust,
Thought the best thing to do was act cool, Problem was I was shy at school, Everybody asked me tons of questions,
Like can you please say it with an accent. They begged, wondering what it’d cost ‘em, But for me, it wasn’t an option.
So I set off putting on my good boy mask, Deciding to forsake that task,
And plugged in games like Starcraft,
To expand your bases, you need to start fast. Jump, slash, block, butterfly, Gunz, Headshot, assassinate from above,
Click PQs and cheer when we got in, Building your own PC, for the win.
What we did was grow up on a screen, Leveling to whatever we need,
Chasing job quests from NPCs,
This was mental food for us to eat.
Chorus
People asking when we stopped saying “oi,” Pokemon catch ‘em on the Gameboy, Growing up, we learned to share the same joys,
Mama Mama, they weren’t just lame toys.
Outro
People asking when we stopped saying “oi,” Pokemon catch ‘em on the Gameboy.

TheVic