[ti:Black Messiah] [ar:The Kinks] [al:Misfits] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Black Messiah - The Kinks [00:00.62]Written by:Raymond Douglas Davies [00:01.25]Everybody got the right to speak their mind [00:07.52]So don't shoot me for saying mine [00:14.24]Everybody talk about racial equality [00:19.90]'Cos everybody's equal in the good Lord's eyes [00:25.29]But if I told you that God was black what would you think of that [00:31.12]I bet you wouldn't believe it [00:36.34]There's a self made prophet living right next to me [00:42.03]He said the black messiah's gonna come and set the whole world free [00:48.52]He looked at me with his evil eye and he prophesied [00:54.41]And he really believed it [00:58.89]He said a black messiah is gonna set the world on fire [01:11.32]And he no liar 'cos he has truly heard the word [01:21.17]Everybody talk about racial equality [01:25.67]But I'm the only honky living on an all black street [01:32.16]They knock me down 'cos they brown and I white [01:38.01]Like you wouldn't believe it [01:42.70]They say a black messiah is gonna set the world on fire [01:54.90]A black messiah is gonna come and rule the world [02:04.58]Everybody talk about racial equality [02:10.50]Everybody talk about equal rights [02:15.78]But white's white black's black and that's that [02:22.02]Everybody got the right to speak their mind [02:27.73]So don't shoot me for saying mine [02:45.23]Everybody talk about racial equality [02:51.05]Yeah everybody talk about equal rights [02:56.29]But white's white black's black that's that [03:02.04]And that's the way you should leave it [03:06.62]Don't want no black messiah to come and set the world on fire [03:18.96]A black messiah is gonna come and rule the world [03:28.46]Everybody got to show a little give and take [03:34.08]Everybody got to live with a little less hate [03:39.86]Everybody gotta work it out we gotta sort it out [03:46.12]Everybody got the right to speak their mind [03:51.69]So don't shoot me for saying mine