Racial Repertoire - Garland Jeffreys

作词：Garland Jeffreys

作曲：Garland Jeffreys

Before I go out on the street

Put on my armor of defense

I never know who I'm gonna meet

To me it never did make much sense

You don't have to go too far

Riding in a subway car

Walk inside a cocktail bar

To feel the racial repertoire

Ever since I was a child

Eyes on me in the grocery store

Maybe it was just a style

Never could figure out what it was for

Lightning bugs in a jelly jar

Driving in my father's car

Even priests and movie stars

They got a racial repertoire

Racial repertoire

Racial repertoire oh oh oh oh

Racial repertoire

Racial repertoire oh oh oh oh

It's become unconscious

Deep within' the psyche

Generations stymied

A permanent scar

Even on the beach

When you think you're out of reach

Eyes are back on you

Like you're tainted residue

Even in your neighborhood

When you think you been understood

A walk in a whiskey bar

Feel that racial repertoire

You don't have to go too far

Riding in a subway car

Even priests and movie stars

They got a racial repertoire

Racial repertoire

Racial repertoire oh oh oh oh

Racial repertoire

Racial repertoire oh oh oh oh

Even on the beach

When you think you're out of reach

Eyes are back on you

Like you're tainted residue

Even in your neighborhood

When you think you been understood

A walk in a whiskey bar

Feel that racial repertoire

Blood spit out on the streets

Blood splatter on the walks

Blood spit out on the streets

Blood splatter on the walks

Blood spit out on the streets

Blood splatter on the walks

Blood spit out on the streets

Blood splatter on the walks

Before I go out on the street

Blood splatter on the walks

Blood spit out on the streets

Blood splatter on the walks

Blood spit out on the streets

Blood splatter on the walks

Blood spit out on the streets

Blood splatter on the walks