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Racial Repertoire Paroles

Garland Jeffreys

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Paroles de Racial Repertoire

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
Chorus:
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 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
Chorus
Even on the beach ...
Blood spit out on the streets
Blood splatter on the walks
Blood spit out on the streets
Blood splatter on the walks