[bad word] 
 
 These color lines will make you break you make you choose a side
 
 These color lines these color lines been here since jump
 
 I write these color lines cause if I don't I'll lose my mind
 
 I write these color lines these color lines
 
 Verse 1 (George)
 
 your first rap show posted in the back row
 
 of a sea of white kids bent on supermanning that hoe
 
 pretty soon you're buying [bad word] hats and high tops
 
 pretending that you're black enough and rapping with the lights off
 
 it's like a cyclops with one closed eye
 
 you can tell me that you're winking, but the grin won't lie
 
 and no mouth supplies, what your skin tone hides
 
 about a thousand miles south as the jim crow flies
 
 And then we're playing he said she said
 
 I see red when i peep a pink cheeked boston meathead
 
 I wanna go [bad word] Lee
 
 When I see him on the T taking up two seats
 
 and say, "excuse me, but would you move if [bad word] froze?"
 
 you know the subway is the underground railroad
 
 lynch trees have the same white limbs
 
 check out my arms, I look just like him
 
 Verse 2 (Catch)
 
 Let's you and I get one thing straight
 
 The game never been equal, ain't no food on my plate
 
 I gave birth to this and you just took it and co opted it and profited
 
 and packaged it and wouldn't give me half of it
 
 Peep how I master this and break down how you took it all
 
 Raped the culture and you standing there looking all
 
 innocent, take a mile when I give and inch
 
 And how you getting rich, is it a coincidence?
 
 or is it ignorance? You don't know your own privilege
 
 You own riches and don't know what homeless is
 
 You got a lot to learn before you even think about
 
 Hip hop, black culture and which [bad word] you pickin out
 
 [bad word] in the street, I don't think so bro
 
 My people ain't supportin your black history show
 
 So stop what you doing we won't take it anymore
 
 Before [bad word] in my house wipe ya feet at the door
 
 [bad word] 
 
 Verse 3
 
 George
 
 I see the color lines
 
 It's tough that Every other time a bother rhymes
 
 white mothers think of gutter crimes
 
 We keep our standard higher
 
 We don't kick lower rhymes George Watsky - Color Lines - [bad word]  [bad word] george-watsky/color-lines-lyrics.html
 
 other times it undermines the fact the mine are over minds
 
 Catch
 
 All you gotta do is get past the guilt
 
 We ain't living in a house that master built
 
 If you understand that, tell your people what you know
 
 Because one of em got enough money to pay back what you owe
 
 George
 
 Yes, My great grands had land, had slaves
 
 I guess I pressed this record off the bank he made
 
 But I want independance, past the declaration
 
 but one down [bad word] white boy can't pay for reparations
 
 Catch
 
 [bad word] out of patience while you do the work of Satan
 
 Like an impulse. Edu Leedz Black history's an insult
 
 George
 
 Number one. I'm not. trying. to tell. your. story
 
 I just want to sit on my porch, drink a forty and spit
 
 Number two, cause You can smell [bad word] 
 
 I just love hip hop
 
 pinky swear that's it
 
 Catch
 
 If you love hip hop respect it
 
 That includes the people who created it and paved the way for this
 
 So that you're making it
 
 George
 
 Well if you're talking on who's making it, I'll play devil's advocate
 
 lot of black music has white dollars backing it
 
 (Kweli's got it on lock)
 
 [bad word] Murdoch funded Rawkus
 
 You looking for the keys, then you better check the pockets
 
 Catch
 
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