Colored People
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Pardon me, your epidermis is showing this

I couldn't help but note your shade of melanin

I tip my hat to the colorful arrangement

'Cause I see the beauty in the tones of our skin

We've gotta come together and thank the Maker of us all


We're colored people and we live in a tainted place

We're colored people and they call us the human race

We've got a history so full of mistakes

And we are colored people who depend on a Holy Grace


A piece of canvas is only the beginning for

It takes on character with every loving stroke

This thing of beauty is the passion of an artist's heart

By God's design, we are a skin kaleidoscope

We've gotta come together aren't we all human after all?


We're colored people and we live in a tainted place

We're colored people and they call us the human race

We've got a history so full of mistakes

And we are colored people who depend on a Holy Grace


Ignorance has wronged some races

And vengeance is the Lord's

If we aspire to share this space

Repentance is the cure


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Well, just a day in the shoes of a color blind man

Should make it easy for you to see

That these diverse tones do more than cover our bones

As a part of our anatomy


We're colored people and we live in a tainted place

We're colored people and they call us the human race

We've got a history so full of mistakes

And we are colored people who depend on a Holy Grace


We're colored people and we live in a tainted place

We're colored people and they call us the human race

We've got a history so full of mistakes

And we are colored people who depend on a Holy Grace


We're colored people and they call us the human race

(Oh, colored people)

We're colored people and we all gotta share this space

(Yeah, we've got to come together, come together)


We're colored people, and we live in a tainted world

(Red and yellow, black and white)

We're colored people, every man, woman, boy, and girl

(Colored people, colored people)

(Colored people, colored people, yeah, oh yeah)


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  2 Honks & A Negro   2 Honks and a Negro   2Honks And A Negro   40 Live   Alas My Love   Alas, My Love [bonus Track]   Alibi   All You Got   Altars   Angel With No Wings   Be   Between You and Me   Blind   Bonded   Can I Get A Witness   Chance   Children Can Live   Children Can Live (Without It)   Collide   Consume Me   Day By Day   Deconstructing Venus   Dive   Do You Know   Eden 6 37   Empty   Existence   Extreme Days   Fearless   Final Days   Fly Like An Eagle   Forty (DC Talk)   Free at Last   Gah Ta Be   Gah Tah Be   Get This Party Started   Godsend   Gospel Clip   Greer   Hardway   Hardway (Remix)   Hardway (Revisited)   He Loves Me   He Works   Heavenbound   Help   I Don't Want It   I Luv Rap Music   I Wish We'd All Been Ready   In The Air   In the Light   In the Light [Instrumental]   Into Jesus   Intro   Intro (supernatural)   It's Killing Me   It's My Life   It's The End Of The World As We Know It   It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Fee...   Jesus Freak   Jesus Freak (reprise)   Jesus Freak [gotee Brothers' Freaked-out Remix]   Jesus Freak [reprise]   Jesus Is Alright   Jesus Is Just Alright   Jesus Is Just Alright (Reprise)   Jesus Is Just Alright [reprise]   Just Between You And Me   King (Allelujah)   Lean On Me   Let's Roll   Like It, Love It, Need It   Lonely Moon   Looking For You   Loss For Words   Luv Is A Verb   Mind's Eye   Momentum   Mrs. Morgan   My Deliverer   My Friend (So Long)   My Will   No More   Nu Thang   Quiet Storm   Reason For The Season   Red Letters   Return of the Singer   Say The Words   Shaping Space   Since I Met   Since I Met You   So Help Me God   Socially Acceptable   Somebody's Watching   Spinin' Round   Spinnin' Round   Spirit in the Sky   Spy   Sugarcoat It   Supernatural   Take It To The Lord   Talk It Out   Tell Me Why   Testimony   That Kinda Girl   The Hardway   The King (Allelujah)   The Secret Circle   The Truth   The Truth Is Out There   There Is a Treason at Sea   Things Of This World   Time Is...   Time Ta Jam   Toby's Mac   Two Honks & a Negro   Two Honks And A Negro   Unglued   Untitled   Voices Praise Him   Walls   Wanna Be Loved   Wdct   WDTC   We Three Kings   What Have We Become   What Have We Become?   What If I Stumble?   When DC Talks   Will Power   Willpower   Word 2 The Father   Yo! Ho! Ho!   Yours

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