SHIKATAGANAI
lyrics by Brian Yorkey
music by Woody Pak
performed by Hoon, Welly Yang, Rona Figueroa, and Alex Lee Tano
Shikataganai
Keep your eyes dry
Hold your heart close to you
Hold your head high
Hold your head high
"America the Beautiful," I know it, every word
You should hear my brother sing it, best you ever heard
And now you say we've got a week to pack our lives away
Since we're solid citizens we silently obey
Chorus
Endless open sky
The hot red sun burns fiercely
On the barren earth
Rows and rows of shacks
Wire fences, guards with guns
Birds in a cage
Two families in one building, but I know we can make do
Cut some sheets for curtains, hang a photograph or two
Miyuki, have some sense, it's a tiny two-room shed
Home is where the heart is, as my mother always said
She said "shikataganai"
It means, it can't be helped, dear
Enryo means modesty
Gaman means persevere
Wind blows through the walls
Winter comes, howling with snow
Wait another year
Endless windblown plain
Sonw melts to mud dries to dust
Seasons turn again
Now spring has fin'ly sprung, so it's the season for a game
Burlap bags for bases but it's baseball all the same
So Dad, pick up the bat, we need you leading off today
Please Paul, leave me be for once, I do not wish to play
Chorus
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