Black Messiah

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Everybody got the right to speak 
their mind
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so don't shoot me for saying mine.

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Everybody talking about racial 
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equality
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'cos everybody's equal in the good
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 Lord's eyes.
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But if I told you that God was 
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black what would you think of 
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that
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I bet you wouldn't believe it.

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There's a self made prophet living
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 right next to me
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he said the Black Messiah's gonna 
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come and set the whole world 
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free.
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He looked at me with his evil eye 
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and he prophesied
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and he really believed it.

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He said a Black Messiah is gonna 
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set the world on fire
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and he's no liar, 'cos he has 
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truly heard the word.

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Everybody talking about racial 
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equality
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but I'm the only honky living on 
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an all black street
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they knock me down 'cos they brown
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 and I white.

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Everybody got the right to speak 
their mind
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so don't shoot me for saying mine.

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Everybody talking about racial 
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equality
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you hear everybody talking about 
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equal rights.
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But white's white, black's black 
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and that's that
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and that's the way you should leave 
it.

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Don't want no Black Messiah to 
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come and set the world on fire
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a Black Messiah is gonna come and 
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rule the world
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Everybody got to show a little 
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give and take
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Everybody got to live with a 
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little less hate
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Everybody gotta work it out, we 
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gotta sort it out.

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Everybody got the right to speak 
their mind
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so don't shoot me for saying mine.