Song Description

This is rather idealistic but valid nevertheless. I want to relate to people because they are people not because they are white people, black people or any other coloured people. In any case, colour is such a recent phenomenon in the history of mankind. Rather like Middle East or Irish history, it?s all a question of how far back you go

Lyrics

white schools and clubs and bars
white rules and streets and white scars
white words, white ideas and thoughts
white power, domination and white courts

you may think that white is wonderful
you may think that black is beautiful
you may think that yellow cuts the mustard
or that brown bears a fruit more cultured
but all of this rolls over me
because i would be colour blind
look for colour and you will find
someone limping way behind

black rights and slaves and freedom
black blues, poetry and harlem
black power, justice and black brothers
black sisters, black rhythm and black lovers

i was born in africa
some say i don't belong there
well how far back do you want to go? a few thousand years or a million or so?
where's your colour that far back in time? what i feel there is just as much mine
but all of this rolls over me
because i would be colour blind
look for colour and you will find
someone limping way behind

yellow money and business and trade
yellow food, yellow face and yellow maid
brown honour, brown marriage and endogamy
brown gods, and brown dance academy

i was born in india
and i cut my teeth in china
i loved and lived in golden, breathtaking kashmir
and in my time there was not a single frontier
but all of this rolls over me
because i would be colour blind
look for colour and you will find
someone limping way behind