Beneath The Color of Skin by Larry Howard

Bright Side of The Blues by Larry Howard

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Beneath The Color of Skin
by Larry Howard

Album: Bright Side of The Blues

I've seen the sun rise on many different lands
foreign skin pressed against my hand
I have waded waters across the Rio Grande
dove beneath the cold North Sea
If I live to be wrinkled and old
see this world over again
I'll never understand why hatred grows
beneath the color of skin

I have drank from fountains marked colored and white
I've seen the devil's cross of fire
I wondered why the tension when I was just a child
I bow my head and wonder even now

I hope this writer's pen never grows cold
I'll ask these words over again
Why man against man
where hatred grows beneath the color of skin

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It irritates to start but hate left to grow
soon infects the heart beneath the color of skin