
Date of issue: 14.09.1998
Record label: Concord, Rounder
Song language: English
Translucent Soul |
I get a call from Vance he’s an old friend |
He’s got some you-won't-believe-story to share |
He’s the place that I go when I need someone who knows me |
He brings the smile of a billionaire |
And I laugh when he pretends he’s a white guy |
'Cause he knows how bad I fail playing black |
He says, «If even you could, I don’t advise that you should |
'Cause once you go there you might not want to turn back» |
There isn’t a thing |
In this God-all-mighty world that I wouldn’t do |
To help him outta trouble |
Seein' as how we’re friends and |
That goes deeper than skin can go |
To a translucent soul |
Deeper than color will show |
Translucent soul |
He says, «Now, you and I, I know we look a little different |
But, I was raised middle class, same as you |
But, let’s make it clear even on the way here |
I had to watch for blue lights in the rear view «He says, «Last week, I was visiting L.A., |
Walking the streets where the riots went down |
You got black killing black killing black killing black |
While all the whites were sweating bullets across town» |
He says, «In L.A., they’re whispering race war |
Like it’s something that has yet to begin |
Like they can plug up the cracks |
In four hundred years of history |
And prove that the melting pot’s not broken» |
He says, «In the event of some unlikely disaster |
We find ourselves armed, and face to face «I said, «I'd turn around, I would protect your ground» |
He said, «I'd do the same thing for you at your place» |
There isn’t a thing |
In this God-all-mighty world that he wouldn’t do |
To help me outta trouble. |
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Embrace what you have in common |
Celebrate what sets you apart |
It takes more than the color |
That you find on a palate |
To turn humanity into an art |
Into the form of an art |
Translucent soul |
Translucent soul |
Soul |
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