Jack Bruce - So They Invented Race lyrics

So they invented race and made themselves different From those they banned from grace They invented race by writing the 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 mad up exotic and wrote it in colour On parchment backs as adventure maps So they shattered my world to a million pieces But I hold on to each piece ad I number them all Won't let my children's smile be shattered into dust And their currency's contempt And the power laughs And the skin fades from my sight People's faces into form Salt sown into day Dark sown in the land Blindness sown in our hopes So they invented race divide down their grace 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 the power laughs And the air's dark in our mouths And the air's dark in our mouths