fight your fears
Singer:macdonald, tom
remember when you told me
that you wouldn't first night
and i said that i respect it
it's different from like e'ry other time
that we ever met somebody underneath the city lights
it's been me and you since then
it's been hotter than we thought it would being just friends
you would come to my apartment
and lie your ass on the carpet
and talk bout how you got started taking classes in college
and i would listen for as long as i could
couple minutes and reminders why i mention i'm good
i'm underneath the palm trees thinkin bout you
gettin caught up in the rain back home in vancouver
wonder if you even think about me at all
wanna do it properly and get you some property
before we started gettin happily and it ended all awfully
i never met another model so in love with breakin mirrors
it was a troubled adolescent years
i used to ask her if she wanted to hear the truth
i said you know i love you but i cannot fight your fears for you
i can't fight your fears for you
even though i would kill for you
but i keep it real with you
i can't fight your battles
there's some places you must travel on your own
but i love you when you come home
we're gettin through everything and we still goin through it
i done did everything but i'm still gon do it
i been shot through the heart but i know she still gon shoot it
and her heart ain't broken no more
but i'm still gon glue it back together
white boy you wish you were black
sayin' shit i can't say with my white voice
don't tell me how to see it through my white eyes
and a grandma that i picture when you're openly hatin'
and god willin' one day i'll have a kid of my own
i refuse to let you blindly hate my wife or my baby
so go ahead and hate the racists
i pray for their extinction
if you wanna hate the white people
between the ones who want the best for everyone regardless
and the ones who built the system just to smother you with hardship
i know what you been thinkin'
how's a straight white male in 2018 bitchin'?
you're makin' me the villain by demonizin' my race
for things i didn't do and decisions i didn't make
no one that i call a friend has ever owned a slave
acknowledging atrocities were wrongly committed
is all that i can offer when i'm wrongly convicted
i would never hate a man for what god gave him in pigments
and i would never plot against him just because he is different
i would never judge a human for the cards he was given
or call them lesser than myself 'cause of the race that he's mixed with
white people that you hate aren't your neighbors or lawyers
they're the people who monopolize the water and oil
and injected your communities with drugs 'til they spoil
got no patience for nazis
i think they're better off dead
they're fightin' hatred with hatred makin' the hate more intense
i don't want nothin' to do with either side of the fence
so don't blindly attack me for wearin' braids on my head
hate the people who believe you put yourselves in the ghetto
hate the ones who teach they children you ain't shit 'cause they said so
hate the ones who think you're all the same and judge you profusely
'cause the way that you're portrayed on our news and in movies
bein' white and bein' racist aren't the same man
know it's hard to tell the difference if i'm just bein' honest
i deserve the chance to show you i'm not part of the problem
and you owe it to yourselves
white boy you wish you were black
sayin' shit i can't say with my white voice
don't tell me how to see it through my white eyes
white boy you wish you were black