Partico - How Quickly Lyrics

Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free
{You guys in Africa, you know what you have to learn to do?}
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore
{It's no use bringing all those people here in Italy}
{stop having so many kids and bringing them all here, capeesh?}
Send these, the homeless, tempest-toss'd, to me
{Go back to your own country and make the laws there!}
I lift my lamp beside the golden door
{GO BACK TO YOUR COUNTRY}
From across the seas,
We heard of opportunities
Lands of peace and streets of gold
But when we left the boat
Tired and poor and starved and soaked
The people shouted "go back home"
Three generations later
Society's more integrated
And a new boat has arrived
But the sons of those
Who came here years ago on boats
Have forgotten what it's like
How quickly we forget
How quickly we forget
How quick we are to judge
The ones we've never met
How quick we are to anger,
How soon to regret
How quickly we forget
How quickly we forget
Now it falls to me
To travel back across the sea
And I'm greeted like a friend
Maybe it's because
I look like everyone else does
Or 'cause they like Americans
But it's different
When discourse turns to immigrants
They say, "we've got to take a stand"
But no one ever sees
An immigrant when they look at me
Even though that's what I am
How quickly we forget
How quickly we forget
How quick we are to judge
The ones we've never met
How quick we are to anger,
How soon to regret
How quickly we forget
How quickly we forget
How quickly we forget
How quickly we forget
How quickly we forget