So don't shoot me for saying mine
Everybody talking about racial equality
Cause everybody's equal in the good Lord's eyes
But if I told you that God was black
What would you think of that
I bet you wouldn't believe it
There's a self made prophet living right next to me
He said the Black Messiah's gonna come and set the whole world free
He looked at me with his evil eye and prophesied
And he really believed it
He said a Black Messiah is gonna set the world on fire
And he's no liar, 'cause he has truly heard the word
Everybody talking about racial equality
But I'm the only honky living on an all black street
They knock me down 'cause they brown and I white
Everybody got the right to speak their mind
So don't shoot me for saying mine
Everybody talking about racial equality
You hear everybody talking about equal rights
But white's white, black's black and that's that
And that's the way you should leave it
Don't want no Black Messiah to come and set the world on fire
A Black Messiah is gonna come and rule the world
Everybody got to show a little give and take
Everybody got to live with a little less hate
Everybody gotta work it out, we gotta sort it out
Everybody got the right to speak their mind
So don't shoot me for saying mine
Everybody got the right to speak their mind So don't shoot me for saying mine Everybody talking about racial equality Cause everybody's equal in the good Lord's eyes But if I told you that God was black What would you think of that I bet you wouldn't believe it There's a self made prophet living right next to me He said the Black Messiah's gonna come and set the whole world free He looked at me with his evil eye and prophesied And he really believed it He said a Black Messiah is gonna set the world on fire And he's no liar, 'cause he has truly heard the word Everybody talking about racial equality But I'm the only honky living on an all black street They knock me down 'cause they brown and I white Everybody got the right to speak their mind So don't shoot me for saying mine Everybody talking about racial equality You hear everybody talking about equal rights But white's white, black's black and that's that And that's the way you should leave it Don't want no Black Messiah to come and set the world on fire A Black Messiah is gonna come and rule the world Everybody got to show a little give and take Everybody got to live with a little less hate Everybody gotta work it out, we gotta sort it out Everybody got the right to speak their mind So don't shoot me for saying mine Explain Request ×
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