Black Messiah

[Verse 1: Ray Davies]

Everybody got the right to speak their mind

So don't shoot me for saying mine

Everybody talking about racial equality

'Cause everybody's equal in the good Lord's eyes

But if I told you that God was black

What would you think of that?

I bet you wouldn't believe it

[Verse 2]

There's a self-made prophet living right next to me

He said the Black Messiah's gonna come and set the whole world free

He looked at me with his evil eye and he prophesied

And he really believed it

[Verse 3]

He said the Black Messiah is gonna set the world on fire

And he's no liar, 'cause he has truly heard the word

Everybody talking about racial equality

But I'm the only honky living on an all black street

They knock me down 'cause they brown and I white

Like you wouldn't believe it

[Verse 4]

They say a Black Messiah is gonna set the world on fire

A Black Messiah is gonna come and rule the world

Everybody talking about racial equality

Everybody talking about equal rights

But white's white, black's black, and that's that

Everybody got the right to speak their mind

So don't shoot me for saying mine

[Verse 5]

Everybody talking about racial equality

Yeah, everybody talking about equal rights

But white's white, black's black, that's that

And that's the way you should leave it

[Verse 6]

Don't want no Black Messiah to come and set the world on fire

A Black Messiah is gonna come and rule the world

Everybody got to show a little give and take

Everybody got to live with a little less hate

Everybody got to work it out, we gotta sort it out

Everybody got the right to speak their mind

So don't shoot me for saying mine