Prince - Race lyrics

(Face the music) {repeat sample in song}

Lead line

If the air's a little thick in this room 2night

I reckon it's the result from an onslaught of separatist rookies

Overcome by this colorful sight

Talkin' so fast that even they

Talkin' so fast that even they don't know what they mean

Of all the things 2 base a rhyme

How is it that U every time regurgitate the racist lines that keep us apart?

Thank God this ain't Monopoly

U'd make us all go back 2 start

CHORUS:

Race in the space I mark human

Race - face the music

We all bones when we dead

Race in the space I mark human

Cut me, cut U

Both the blood is red, I gotcha!

Race {x2}

Check it

Three seats over there's a lady black

Entrusted 2 her care is a little white girl

And the fact of the matter is

Before her mama or another kid at school

Tell her 'bout the fallacy that one race rules over the other

She'd be a much-better-off-left fool

If we never heard about the evils that those before us committed

Then how my dear, tell me now how my dear?

Tell me now how now would we know?

And th-th-the band say?

CHORUS

Race {x2}

Down, down with H-I-S-T-O-R-Y

And all this BS propagandi

Keepin' U from me and me from U as we grow

I don't wanna know (I don't wanna know)

Why those before us hated each other

I'd rather believe they never did

I'd rather believe (I'd rather, I'd rather believe)

That there's hope 4 a kid

And if he imitates the best

I guess that's what I'll try 2 be

And I'ma let the rest dissolve with my guitar underneath the sea

Race

Face the music {x2}

Race in the space I mark human

Race - face the music

We all bones when we dead

Race in the space I mark human

Cut me, cut U

Both the blood is red

Get it? (Race)

Got it! (Race)

Face the music

(Race) {repeat