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