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Pardon me, your epidermis is showing, sir
I couldn't help, but note your shade of melanin (shade ofmelanin)
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 makerof us all
We're colored people, and we live in a tainted place (coloredpeople)
Colored people, and they call us the human race (coloredpeople)
We've got a history so full of mistakes (colored people)
And we are colored people who depend on a Holy Grace
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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 gotta come together (come together), aren't we all humanafter all?
We're colored people, and we live in a tainted place (coloredpeople)
We're colored people, and they call us the human race(colored people)
We've got a history so full of mistakes (colored people)
'Cause we are colored people (colored people) who depend on aHoly Grace
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 (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 (coloredpeople)
Colored people, and they call us the human race (coloredpeople)
We've got a history so full of mistakes (colored people)
'Cause we are colored people who depend on a Holy Grace
We're colored people, and they call us the human race (we'recolored people, we'recolored people)
We're colored people, and we all got to share this space(we're colored people, yeah,we've got to come together somehow)
We're colored people, and we live in a tainted place (coloredpeople, yellow, black andwhite)
We're colored people, every man, woman, boy and girl (ohyeah, we're colored people,colored people, colored people, colored people, yeah)
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