Everybody got the right to speak their mind, so don't shoot me for
saying mine.
Everybody talk about racial equality,
'Cos 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, 'cos he has truly heard the word.
Everybody talk about racial equality.
But I'm the only honky living on an all black street.
They knock me down 'cos they brown and I white.
Everybody got the right to speak their mind, so don't shoot me for
saying mine.
Everybody talk about racial equality,
Yeah, everybody talk 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.