| Pardon me, your epidermis is showing, sir
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| I couldn’t help but note your shade of melanin
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| I tip my hat to the colorful arrangement
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| Cause I see the beauty in the tones of our skin
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| We’ve gotta come together
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| And thank the Maker of us all
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| We’re colored people, and we live in a tainted place
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| We’re colored people, and they call us the human race
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| We’ve got a history so full of mistakes
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| And we are colored people who depend on a holy grace
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| A piece of canvas is only the beginning for
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| It takes on character with every loving stroke
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| This thing of beauty is the passion of an artist’s heart
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| By God’s design, we are a skin kaleidoscope
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| We’ve gotta come together
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| Aren’t we all human after all?
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| We’re colored people, and we live in a tainted place
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| We’re colored people, and they call us the human race
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| We’ve got a history so full of mistakes
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| And we are colored people who depend on a holy grace
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| Ignorance has wronged some races
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| And vengeance is the Lord’s
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| If we aspire to share this space
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| Repentance is the cure
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| Well, just a day in the shoes of a color blind man
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| Should make it easy for you to see
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| That these diverse tones do more than cover our bones
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| As a part of our anatomy
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| We’re colored people, and we live in a tainted place
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| We’re colored people, and they call us the human race
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| We’ve got a history so full of mistakes
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| And we are colored people who depend on a holy grace
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| We’re colored people, and they call us the human race
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| (Oh, colored people)
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| We’re colored people, and we all gotta share this space
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| (Yeah we’ve got to come together somehow)
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| We’re colored people, and we live in a tainted world
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| (Red and yellow, black and white)
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| We’re colored people, every man, woman, boy, and girl
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| (Colored people, colored people, colored people, colored people, yeah) |