Ooooooooooh, yeah
There is joy in diversity
Ooooooooooh, yeah
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Pardon me, your epidermis is showing, miss
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 gotta come together (come together), and thank the maker of us all
We're colored people, and we live in a tainted place (colored people)
Colored people, and they call us the human race (colored people)
We've got a history so full of mistakes (colored people)
And we are colored people who depend on a Holy Grace
Ooooh, yeah
Aaaaah
Red and yellow, black and white
All the freshest skin in sight
A piece of canvas is only the beginning for
It takes on character with every loving stroke
This thing of beauty is the passion for an artist's heart
By God's design, we are a skin kaleidoscope, oh
We gotta come together (come together), aren't we all human after all?
We're colored people, and we live in a tainted place (colored people)
We're colored people, and they call us the human race (colored people)
We've got a history so full of mistakes (colored people)
And we are colored people (colored people) who depend on a Holy
Ignorance has wronged some races (ignorance has wronged)
And vengeance is the Lord's (vengeance is the Lord's)
If we aspire to share this space (if we aspire)
Repentance is the cure, oooh yeah
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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
Colored people, and we live in a tainted place (colored people)
Colored people, and they call us the human race (we're colored people)
We've got a history so full of mistakes (colored people)
'Cause we are colored people who depend on a Holy
Get 'em up!
Colored people, and we live in a tainted place (colored people)
Colored people, and they call us the human race (we're colored people)
We've got a history so full of mistakes (colored people)
And we are colored people who depend on a Holy Grace
We're colored people, and they call us the human race (colored people, colored, coloredpeople)
We're colored people, and we all gotta share this space (we're colored people, yeah,we've got to come together, come together, now)
We're colored people, and we live in a tainted place (colored people, red, yellow, blackand white)
We're colored people, every man, woman, boy and girl (oh yeah, oh yeah, coloredpeople, colored people, colored people, colored people, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
Ooooh yeah
Here we go
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Ooooh yeah, ooooooh
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