They say the darkest hour is just before the dawn
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In chess, without exception, white moves the first pawn
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They called it "Black Tuesday" when the stock market crashed
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A fix in 1919 turned the White Sox to Black
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Black balled, black magic, executioner's hood
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White hatted, white horsed, champion of good
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Black knight of Dark Ages on the darkest night
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The Pope walks in truth, head to toe in white
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[Chorus:]
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Who started all this bullshit - were they looking for a fight?
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You didn't have to be there to know that they were white
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But when you're talking skin tone, let's not fuck around
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Cause no one's really black or white, we're all just shades of brown
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Black hearted, black beard on the briney deep
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Or the family outcast you call the black sheep
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Days of black plague - draw your final breath
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Heading for heaven white dying of Black Death
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Mankind is preoccupied to keep each other down
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Some use superstition, a Bible or a crown
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At best it's fear and ignorance, at worst, it's a sin
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Not God and country, king or crown, it's the pigment of our skin
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Used to reinforce what's wrong or right
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It's really just the presence or absence of light
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In the blackest hour of the blackest day
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It isn't mighty white of us, but we gotta say
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[Chorus]
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White when your marry, black when you die
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A racial hierarchy, a festering white lie
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White stands for ignorance, pure and sincere
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But if you're talking bigotry it should be crystal clear
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The new world becond, the immigrants came
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Homogenized their culture, anglicized their names
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Then they painted Jesus, blonde with eyes of blue
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Not a Nazarene, more a nazi than a Jew
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In the black revolution with their Black Power found
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Till their leaders were all jailed or stomped into the ground
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And the final step ironic - to nail that coffin tight
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The powder of enslavement in their glassine bags of white
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[repeat chorus until this white male power structure falls]
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Shades Of Brown
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| MDC |
