Everybody got the right to speak their mind   So don't shoot me for saying mine      Everybody talk about racial equality   'Cos everybody's equal in the good Lord's eyes   But if I told you that God was black, what would you think of that?   I bet you wouldn't believe it      There's a self made prophet living right next to me   He said the Black Messiah's gonna come and set the whole world free   He looked at me with his evil eye and he prophesied   And he really believed it      He said a Black Messiah is gonna set the world on fire   And he no liar, 'cos he has truly heard the word      Everybody talk about racial equality   But I'm the only honky living on an all black street   They knock me down 'cos they brown and I white   Like you wouldn't believe it      They say a Black Messiah is gonna set the world on fire   A Black Messiah is gonna come and rule the world      Everybody talk about racial equality   Everybody talk about equal rights   But white's white, black's black and that's that      Everybody got the right to speak their mind   So don't shoot me for saying mine      Everybody talk about racial equality   Yeah everybody talk about equal rights   But white's white, black's black, that's that   And that's the way you should leave it      Don't want no Black Messiah to come and set the world on fire   A Black Messiah is gonna come and rule the world      Everybody got to show a little give and take   Everybody got to live with a little less hate   Everybody gotta work it out, we gotta sort it out      Everybody got the right to speak their mind   So don't shoot me for saying mine