Is It Because I'm Black? - Ken Boothe

The dark brown shades of my skin

Only add colour to my tears

That splash against my hollow bones, that rocks my soul

Looking back over my false dreams, that I once knew

Wondering why my dreams never came true

Somebody tell me, what can I do

Something is holding me back

Is it because I’m black?

In this world of no pity

I was raised in the ghetto of the city

Momma, she works so hard

To earn every penny

Something is holding me back

Is it because I’m black?

Something is holding me back

I wonder, Is it because I’m black?

Like a child stealing candy for the first time, and got caught

Around life’s corner somewhere I got lost

Something is holding me back

Is it because I’m black?

Something is holding me back

Is it because I’m black?

And be somebody, somehow, and someway