Deep inside the border
Children are crying
Fighting for food
Holding their heads
Breaking their bread with a stone

All along the roadside
people are standing
watching the sun
shielding their eyes
Brushing the flies from their face

Tell me, what can you say
Tell me, who do you blame
Like a mirror you see yourself
These people each have a name

All around the township
Young men are dying
(of) hunger and thirst
The well has run dry
The tears from her eye feeds her son

Tell me...

You can say you're pulling back
We see the pictures everywhere
But what we don't see is what's
Going on behind the closed doors
And you don't seem to care

Do you expect me to believe you
How can you really think
You can take your horse down to the water
Hold a gun at his head
And make him drink

No matter what you say, it never gets any better
No matter what you do, we never see any change

People living without rights
Without their dignity
How loud does one man have to shout
To earn his right to be free

You can keep your toy soldiers
To segregate the black and white
But when the dust settles
And the blood stops running
How do you sleep at night?

No matter what you say...

What makes you so high and mighty
What makes you so qualified
You can sit there and say
How many have their freedom
But how many more have died

You decide to sit in judgement
Trying to play God yourself
Someday soon the buck is gonna stop
Stop with you and noone else

No matter...

Raise your banner
For the noise

Wake the dogs up
Call your boys

Are you ready
For the war

Bring your colours
To the floor

(I сan see the freak in your eyes).. 4x

Show your colours
Bring your colours
To the floor..

Show your colours
Bring your colours
To the floor

Wake yourself up
Sirens on

Cause we are fighting
So exciting now its on

Are you ready
For the war

Show your colours
Bring your colours
To the floor

(I сan see the freak in your eyes).. 4x

Show your colours
Bring your colours
To the floor..
Show your colours
Bring your colours
To the floor

(I сan see the freak in your eyes).. 5x

SHOW YOUR COLOUR!.. 4x

(INSTRUMENTAL)

Show your colours
Bring your colours
To the floor..
Show your colours
Bring your colours
To the floor

The sky was perfect blue
Me and you, with a new beginning
One and one made two
All we knew was that we had each other
Like gentle lavender on my face, what a gorgeous feeling
You took me up so high
Felt so free with no walls or ceilings

[Hook]
For every way, my emotions have gone
There is a shade that goes along
Your painting of me, like the canvases
You're forging my song

[Chorus:]
Went through so many changes
Don't know how I became this
There is a different shade for all that we've been through
These are my colors for you
I'm trying to think back to what I was before you
But for every turn, a different hue
These are my colors for you

So the seasons go brightly so, we prepare for changes
A certain change in tint
There were hints while the bright ones faded
Appear a perfect sky, shattered by the remainings of pain
Once so beautiful, a perfect blue now is all in red

For every way, my emotions have gone
There is a shade that goes along
Your painting of me, like the canvases
You're forging my song

Went through so many changes
Don't know how I became this
There is a different shade for all that we've been through
These are my colors for you
I'm trying to think back to what I was before you
But for every turn, a different hue
These are my colors for you

[Bridge]
A master of these colors, brought up to your encounter
Everything you put in me is now manifesting
The lavenders, the blues, the grays and yellows too
Have all gone into what you see, standing here before you

[x2]
Went through so many changes
Don't know how I became this
There is a different shade for all that we've been through
These are my colors for you
I'm trying to think back to what I was before you
But for every turn, a different hue
These are my colors for you
(These are my colors for you)

Yellow is the colour of my true love's hair
In the mornin' when we rise,
In the mornin' when we rise,
That's the time, that's the time,
I love the best.

Blue's the colour of the sky
In the mornin' when we rise,
In the mornin' when we rise.
That's the time, that's the time
I love the best.

Green's the colour of the sparklin' corn
In the mornin' when we rise,
In the mornin' when we rise.
That's the time, that's the time
I love the best.

Mellow is the feeling that I get
when I see her, mm hmm,
when I see her, uh huh.
That's the time, that's the time
I love the best.

Freedom is a word I rarely use
Without thinkin', mm hmm,
Without thinkin', mm hmm,
Of the time, of the time
When I've been loved.

Deep inside the border
Children are crying
Fighting for food
Holding their heads
Breaking their bread with a stone

All along the roadside
people are standing
watching the sun
shielding their eyes
Brushing the flies from their face

Tell me, what can you say
Tell me, who do you blame
Like a mirror you see yourself
These people each have a name

All around the township
Young men are dying
(of) hunger and thirst
The well has run dry
The tears from her eye feeds her son

Tell me...

You can say you're pulling back
We see the pictures everywhere
But what we don't see is what's
Going on behind the closed doors
And you don't seem to care

Do you expect me to believe you
How can you really think
You can take your horse down to the water
Hold a gun at his head
And make him drink

No matter what you say, it never gets any better
No matter what you do, we never see any change

People living without rights
Without their dignity
How loud does one man have to shout
To earn his right to be free

You can keep your toy soldiers
To segregate the black and white
But when the dust settles
And the blood stops running
How do you sleep at night?

No matter what you say...

What makes you so high and mighty
What makes you so qualified
You can sit there and say
How many have their freedom
But how many more have died

You decide to sit in judgement
Trying to play God yourself
Someday soon the buck is gonna stop
Stop with you and noone else

No matter...

Fell out of heaven A.D
But it meant nothin' to me
You never talked about the birds and the bees
No

I wanna grow up to be young
I don't wanna be contained
I just wanna feel a little loved
Good intentions always paved the road to hell

Some things are not just black & white
Sombody's gotta shine
In colours and it could be me
Out of the jungle
Into remedy

I came out hungry to be me
Every nothing is for free
Life is expensive with no salary
Yeah

Can't hold a straydog on a leash
So let your wild blood run free
I just learned from a lottery
That good intentions always paved the road to hell

Some things are not just black & white
Sombody's gotta shine
In colours and it could be me
Out of the jungle
Into remedy
Out of the jungle
Into remedy

Yeah
Uh, uh, ah

Now I don't care what you dress like
Or what you wear
But please make sure baby
You've got some colours in there
Now it's all very well stepping out in black and white
But you're no girlfriend of mine
If you're doing that right
(repeat)

Get some colours on, get some colours on

Now I don't care what you dress like
Or what you wear
But please make sure baby
You've got some colours in there
Now it's all very well stepping out in black and white
But you're no girlfriend of mine
If you're doing that right

Get some colours on, get some colours on
Get some colours on, get some colours on

Yeah
Uh, uh, ah

I am a man, man, man, man
Up, up in the air
And I run around, round, round, round this down town and act like I don't care.
So when you see me flying by the planet's moon,
You don't need to explain if everything's changed
Just know I'm just like you.

Huh.
Ha

So I pull the switch, the switch, the switch inside my head.
And I see black, black, green,and brown, brown, brown and blue, yellow, violets, red.
And suddenly a light appears inside my brain
And I think of my ways, I think of my days and know that I have changed.

It's the colors you have
No need to be sad.
It really ain't that bad.

It's the colors you have
No need to be sad.
You've still got your health

So Mistress, Mistress have you been up to the roof?
He shot himself, self
There's blood on the wall
'Cause he couldn't face the truth.

Oh, knock that down, leave the ground and find some space
And tell your friends, friends,
You'll be back again, gain
Before it's too late.

It's the colors you have
No need to be sad.
It really ain't that bad.

Oooooooooh, It's the colors you have
No need to be sad.
It really ain't that bad

It's the colors you have
No need to be sad.
You've still got your health

So I am a man, man, man, man
Up, up in the air
And I float around, 'round, 'round this downtown
And know I shouldn't care.
So when you see us there out in the open road
You don't need to explain
If everything's changed
Just know that you don't know.

We call it... Life
Oh yeah, that's what we call it.
We can't call it at all.
We call it... Life
Oh yeah, that's what we call it.
When you can't call it at all.
Yeah, We call it Life
Oh yeah that's what we call it.
Woah-ooohhh
We do it for love, sweet love.

Colours are what
Keep me alive
Colours are what
To hold in my head

Colours are where my
My old meets new
Colours are where my
My brain finds blue

Colours and colours and colours of colours
Colours and colours and colours of colours
Colours and colours and colours of colours
Colours and colours and colours of colours
Colours and colours and colours of colours

Bursts are where
I find a face
Bursts are made
To colour me rich
Bursts are blocks
Stickle bricks
Bursts of colour
Until I'm sick

Colours and colours and colours of colours
(I only wanted for to see)
Colours and colours and colours of colours
(There's nothing in this heart but me)
Colours and colours and colours of colours
(Everything you want is not free)
Colours and colours and colours of colours

Colours and colours and colours of colours
(I'm everything a girl could need)
Colours and colours and colours of colours
(There's nothing in this heart but me)
Colours and colours and colours of colours
(If everything you want is free)
Colours and colours and colours of colours

Colours and colours and colours of colours
(I'm everything a girl could need)
Colours and colours and colours of colours
(There's nothing in this heart but me)
Colours and colours and colours of colours
(If everything you want is free)
Colours and colours and colours of colours

Colours and colours and colours of colours
(If everything you want is free)
Colours and colours and colours of colours
(There's nothing in this heart but me)
Colours and colours and colours of colours
(I only wanted for to see)
Colours and colours and colours of colours

Colours and colours and colours of colours
(I only wanted for to see)
Colours and colours and colours of colours
(There's nothing in this heart but me)
Colours and colours and colours of colours
(And everything you want is not free free free.

Don't call me nigger, whitey
Don't call me whitey, nigger
Don't call me nigger, whitey
Don't call me whitey, nigger
Why's all the time in this world, we stumble in the night
When all we have to do is get along, we don't need to fight
And in this great beauty, beautiful beauty, beautiful world we live upon
Well say its far too small, far too small for us not to get along
So saying: why can't we just all get along
So saying: why can't we just sing this one song
So saying: why can't we just all get along
Instead of always saying:
Don't call me nigger, whitey
Don't call me whitey, nigger
Don't call me nigger, whitey
Don't call me whitey, nigger
Why's all the time in this world, we stumble in the night
When all we have to do is get along, we don't need to fight
And in this great beauty, beautiful beauty, beautiful world we live upon
Well say its far too small, far too small for us not to get along
There's more than just one colour to this big world rainbow
And no colour shines off any brighter
This my son, you should know
You should know

If not now then when? If not now then when?
Us with the numbers in the back of our eyelids

The colours that you don't see
The colours that you don't see
The colours that you don't see
The colours that you don't see....see... see is gold!

Gold! Gold! Gold!

If not now then when? If not now then when?
You with the numbers in the back of your eyelids

The colours that you don't see
The colours that you don't see
The colours that you don't see
The colours that you don't see....see... see is gold!

Gold! Gold! Gold!

The colours that you don't see, the colours that you don't
And the numbers that you're trying to identify with answers to
The mirror which is made up of colours

* chorus
Don't call me nigger, whitey
Don't call me whitey, nigger
Don't call me nigger, whitey
Don't call me whitey, nigger

Why's all the time in this world, we stumble in the night
When all we have to do is get along, we don't need to fight
And in this great beauty, beautiful beauty, beautiful world we live upon
Well say its far too small, far too small for us not to get along

So saying: why can't we just all get along
So saying: why can't we just sing this one song
So saying: why can't we just all get along

Instead of always saying:

* chorus
Don't call me nigger, whitey
Don't call me whitey, nigger
Don't call me nigger, whitey
Don't call me whitey, nigger

Why's all the time in this world, we stumble in the night
When all we have to do is get along, we don't need to fight
And in this great beauty, beautiful beauty, beautiful world we live upon
Well say its far too small, far too small for us not to get along

There's more than just one colour to this big world rainbow
And no colour shines off any brighter
This my son, you should know
You should know