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Key: D# minor
Verse 1
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Why do we hate?
We hate because we're taught to hate.
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We hate because we're ignorant.
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We're the product of
ignorant people
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who have been taught an ignorant thing,
which is that there are four or five
different races.
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There are not four
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or five different races.
There's only one race on the face of the earth,
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and we're all members of that race,
the human race.
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But we have separated people into races
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so that some of us may
see ourselves
as superior to the others.
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We thought it would work, I guess.
It hasn't worked.
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It has been bad for everyone.
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It's time to get over this business.
There is no gene for racism.
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There's no gene for bigotry.
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You're not born a bigot,
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you have to learn to be a bigot.
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Anything you learn, you can unlearn.
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It's time to unlearn our bigotry.
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It's time to get over this thing,
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and we best get over it pretty soon.
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Proud American,
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can you please ex plain
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in simple words
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How you think someone like them will
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Build a safer,
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more human state
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for you to live in
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I am only trying to understand
Where you come from,
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where you're dying to go
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There must be something wrong
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Am
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with the way I think
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Can't comprehend all that
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you seem to know
True American
Somehow you're convinced
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that you are worth more
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Based on the color of your skin
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Education failed but it's not too late
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For you to unlearn
Outro 1
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