Yana Srikandi - White Gaze

A project about transracial adoption & displacement.

Lyrics

I was found in a desert marketplace.
Rough hands all over my body, white gaze.

Carried over many seas,
bound to Western greed.

Owned like a dog on a too tight leash,
erased to fulfill your needs.

Where's the lie in living under a roof,
clothes, education and food?

Songs of loving families,
horses and prairies.

If only I would comply, you said
Now I’m suck dried tied to my bed

Treated as china doll or criminal,
raging when I don't smile to your catcall.

Release date - 26 June 2021

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White Gaze

Yana Srikandi - Hollow Heart

A project about transracial adoption & displacement.

Lyrics

Mama loves my money
But I’m not sure if she loves me
Neither all the aunties
And uncles and cousins
Think that I’m accomplished

Personal ATM

Y'know, they sold me mama
Into a colonialist dream
A need to not see me
Nor you or our heartbreak
Who I am without you

Something outside of us

Mama hates my daddy
Keeps calling him evil
His siblings dead like him
Because they’re evil too
Or I guess I heard wrong

Revenge my only fuel

My sister’s face like mine
We’re walking to dad’s grave
Scratched on pink tiles his name
A kind person, she said
Garbage and dirt on top

You called me Nana

Seems you also painted
The sky, houses and trees
I can see myself in you
You can’t be a hater
Well, not as much as I

Too many things I’ve lost


Release date - 28 June 2023

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Hollow Heart

Yana Srikandi - Wish

A project about transracial adoption & displacement.

☘︎️☘︎️☘︎️

Release date - 26 November 2023

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Wish

Yana Srikandi - Tomodachi

A project about transracial adoption & displacement.

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Release date - 15 December 2023

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Wish

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