So They Invented Race Lyrics - Jack Bruce

So they invented race and made themselves different 

From those they banned from grace 

They invented race by writing 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 made-up exotic 

And wrote it in color 

On parchment backs 

As adventure maps, yeah 

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So they shattered my world to a million pieces 

But I hold on to each piece and I number them all 

I won't let my children's smiles be shattered into dust 

And their currency's contempt 

And their power laughs 

And the skin fades from my sight 

People's faces into forms 

Salt sown into day 

Dark sown in the land 

Blindness sown in our hopes 

So they invented race, divide down their [Incomprehensible] 

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 

Photos 

And their currency's contempt 

And their power laughs 

And the air's dark in our mouths 

And the air's dark in our mouths