White Man (Anger)

Baby, I'm the white man
No I just don't give a damn
Baby, I'm the white man
I killed your people and took the land
Baby, I'm the white man
Good luck getting me to understand
Baby, I'm the white man
Why was I born with this curse

If nothing else, let's not sugarcoat
I'm the one that put you on that boat
I'm the one that locked your chains
I'm the one that gave you that name
It's so simple, don't you see
Run it through my ancestry
Oh God, I've got to feed the need
Anger, Foolishness, and Greed
And if you think that memory is faded
Then I doubt you're the one I'm denigrating
For this denial and self-hatred
Is everything I created

Baby, I'm the white man
And I just don't give a damn
Baby, I'm the white man
And it's all going according to plan
Baby, I'm the white man
But I can't wash this blood from my hands
Baby, I'm the white man
Why was I born with this curse

You know I wrote that constitution
The so-called American revolution
All are equal in the eyes of God
Just ask the slaves in my backyard
Too bad you can't just wish it away
A few generations cannot escape
Being founded on murder, torture, and rape
That's what made your country great
See, privilege isn't just what you've got
Or not getting popped
When you're stopped by a cop
The difference is, who advances the plot
You have to do it, and I can simply not, because

Baby, I'm the white man
I don't sing the blues for what I lose
Baby, I'm the white man
That's just a song I stole that I call rock n' roll
Baby, I'm the white man
Circling your culture like a vulture
Baby, I'm the white man
Why was I born with this curse

Ever since the beginning of time
I've been keeping down the womankind
Must be some inferiority
That I need someone to belong to me
Come here, girl, won't you be my object
I'll dress you up for my pet project
Keep you deprived so that you need me
Smile and sex and clean and feed me
So twisted in my sense of worth
My very concept of life perverts
When I can't love the ones that gave me birth
What you think I'm gonna do to Mother Earth

Baby, I'm the white man
Watch you strip so you can earn my big tip
Baby, I'm the white man
You think that disrespect does not connect
Baby, I'm the white man
It's like when I kill the soil to drill for the oil
Baby, I'm the white man
Why was I born with this curse

You can't circumvent cause and effect
Columbus would've been better shipwrecked
The land and the leaders and the people reflect
The history so what did you really expect
White Man's Burden and the Trail of Tears
Round 'em up with the gays and queers
Multiply that by five hundred years
And you're left with the sound
Ringing in your ears
The sound of two atomic bombs
The sound of napalm in Vietnam
Of every usurped government gone wrong
And the refugee asking you
Where you're from, tell 'em

Baby, I'm the white man
Baby, I'm the white man
I put the white in the Red, White, and Blue
Baby, I'm the white man
If you're not careful you might become one too
Baby, I'm the white man

So what's the oppressor's dog in this fight
Like, I hear him, but this man is still white
And you're right
But this song is all I have left
I'm hollowed out, spiritually bereft
Look in my eyes, I'm trying to get back my soul
Check my pulse, I want to make my heart full
Observe my mind, I'm trying to regain control
It's gonna take a long time
To get back what I stole

Quicksand, falling fast
Look at where you're at
If you want to know the past
The last will be first and the first will be last
But I can't remember now, who said that
It's the only way to save the nation
Revolutionize the education
So every white kid from preschool to college
Can grow up to truly acknowledge

Baby, I'm the white man
The whole foundation was built on sand
Baby, I'm the white man
A cracker is because he's bland
Baby, I'm the white man
Oh please, don't let this be who I am
Baby, I'm the white man
Why was I born with this curse