Intro 
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Verse 
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           Pardon me,          your epidermis is showing 
 
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        I couldn't help but note your shade of melanin 
 
  
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         I tip my hat to the colorful arrangement         Cause I 
 
 
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           see the beauty in the tones of our skin 
 
 
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       We gotta come together, and thank the maker of us all 
 
 
Chorus 
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     We're colored people, and we live in a tainted place 
 
 
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    We're  colored people, and they call us the human race 
 
 
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     We've got a history so full of mistakes              And we are 
 
 
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           colored people who depend on a Holy Grace 
 
Bridge 
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- Verse 
A piece of canvas is on;y the beginning 
It takes on character with every loving stroke 
Thins thing of beauty is the passion of an artist's heart 
By God's design, we are a skin kaleidoscope 
 
We gotta come together, aren't we all human after all? 
 
- Chorus 
 
Break                                ^ = bend up and back down  
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   Ignorance      has   wronged    some    races             and 
 
 
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   vengeance is the Lord's 
 
 
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If we        aspire    to   share    this     space 
 
 
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 Repentace    is      the   cure 
 
- Rap (played the same as chorus) 
Well, just a day in the shoes of a color blind man 
Should make it easy for you to see 
That these diverse tone do more than color our bones 
As a part of our anatomy 
 
Chorus (twice)  
sometime during the chorus change to this rif or have another guitar do it. 
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Continue playing until it fades out.