Collins Phil Colours Lyrics

Colours Lyrics

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...