Skin
Ah, skin
You ever thought about skin?
The whole concept of humanity is smoky
It's kinda shaky
No one seem to know which bandwagon to hop on
And the politics and hypocrites
Well, they're all sympathetic with bandwagon wheels
Some wheels with guts and do right principles stand up until they're shot down
Lord, we had some good 'uns shot down lately
There are some wheels barely tied together
With guns, fools with guns ready to kill and be killed
People sure are proud of their skin
It's just skin
Black and white skin
It's dark in the east, and it's dark in the west
The north and the south have had one contest
Umm, just the thought of a hassle gets under my skin
Still, life evolves
And the pity that is needed resolves
To unconcern
Hungry kids are walkin' the streets with empty stomachs
Where did all of our children go?
And 'em fat scarlet mothers smell sweet with desertion
Books are being written about men
About black and white
Up and down men
But mostly about you and me, man
We're all pigs
Black pigs, white pigs
Just can't groove in the same mudhole it seems like
And the cause of it all is skin
One shone human skin
Think about it, it's just skin
You ever thought about skin?
The whole concept of humanity is smoky
It's kinda shaky
No one seem to know which bandwagon to hop on
And the politics and hypocrites
Well, they're all sympathetic with bandwagon wheels
Some wheels with guts and do right principles stand up until they're shot down
Lord, we had some good 'uns shot down lately
There are some wheels barely tied together
With guns, fools with guns ready to kill and be killed
People sure are proud of their skin
It's just skin
Black and white skin
It's dark in the east, and it's dark in the west
The north and the south have had one contest
Umm, just the thought of a hassle gets under my skin
Still, life evolves
And the pity that is needed resolves
To unconcern
Hungry kids are walkin' the streets with empty stomachs
Where did all of our children go?
And 'em fat scarlet mothers smell sweet with desertion
Books are being written about men
About black and white
Up and down men
But mostly about you and me, man
We're all pigs
Black pigs, white pigs
Just can't groove in the same mudhole it seems like
And the cause of it all is skin
One shone human skin
Think about it, it's just skin
Credits
Writer(s): Dan Penn
Lyrics powered by www.musixmatch.com
Link
Other Album Tracks
© 2024 All rights reserved. Rockol.com S.r.l. Website image policy
Rockol
- Rockol only uses images and photos made available for promotional purposes (“for press use”) by record companies, artist managements and p.r. agencies.
- Said images are used to exert a right to report and a finality of the criticism, in a degraded mode compliant to copyright laws, and exclusively inclosed in our own informative content.
- Only non-exclusive images addressed to newspaper use and, in general, copyright-free are accepted.
- Live photos are published when licensed by photographers whose copyright is quoted.
- Rockol is available to pay the right holder a fair fee should a published image’s author be unknown at the time of publishing.
Feedback
Please immediately report the presence of images possibly not compliant with the above cases so as to quickly verify an improper use: where confirmed, we would immediately proceed to their removal.