Jack Bruce So They Invented Race Lyrics

So They Invented Race Lyrics

So they invented race and made themselves different

From those they banned from grace

They invented race by writing difference in the air



They invented race and carved it in a language

Tattooed it in space and wrote it on skin

So they made up race and programmed it in their cash



And the air's dark in our mouths

It's a bitter light

And the skin fades from our sight

People's faces into forms



So they made-up exotic

And wrote it in color

On parchment backs

As adventure maps, yeah



So they shattered my world to a million pieces

But I hold on to each piece and I number them all

I won't let my children's smiles be shattered into dust



And their currency's contempt

And their power laughs

And the skin fades from my sight

People's faces into forms



Salt sown into day

Dark sown in the land

Blindness sown in our hopes



So they invented race, divide down their [Incomprehensible]

And made their case in fear and pain

So they invented race and we'll invent clarity again



And the air's dark in our mouths

It's a bitter light

And the skin fades from our sight

People's faces into forms



And their currency's contempt

And their power laughs

And the air's dark in our mouths

And the air's dark in our mouths