Just that you don't look like me, tell me what do you see
About some fat racist living in Chicago
Drowning in a sea of tears
I don't know, well, I don't know, I don't know
Why must we hate one another?
Hating everybody else
Hatred trying to hide your fears
You don't walk like me, I said that, you don't talk like me, saying
Why do you hate me so
I'm a man, well, I'm a man, I'm a man
I'm trying to be someone that he could look up to, but
Oh drowning
Time to make the world a better place
When we pass on the street what do you wanna see
Tired of hearin' this shit about heritage not hate
Hatred trying to hide your fears
Wanna turn and run away
Well, tell me why is that something you wanna teach your son?
They're just telling you how they see it
Living only for yourself
Trying to teach his kids to hate everyone
Hating everybody else
'Cause they don't look like you
P.E.'s coming is all I gotta say
Hating everybody else
When I walk down the street, tell me what do you see
No I'm not like you
Go back to Africa, I just don't understand
'Cause they don't look like you, don't look like you
Well, no matter what we gotta live together
Living only for yourself
Hating everybody else
Nanci singing it's a hard life wherever you go
Drowning in a sea of tears
'Cause they don't look like you
'Cause they don't look like you
Why must we hate one another?
Right or wrong they don't care, you wish that they would quit
When the people in the church, they tell me you're my brother
