
Date of issue: 16.05.1978
Record label: Kinks Properties, Sanctuary Records Group
Song language: English
Black Messiah |
Everybody got the right to speak their mind |
So don’t shoot me for saying mine |
Everybody talking 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 talking 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 |
Everyobody 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 |
Everbody got the right to speak their mind |
So don’t shoot me for saying mine |
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