Lyrics Is It Because I'm Black - Earl 16

Dark brown shade of my skin
Only add colours to my tears
Like a splash against my outer bone
And it rocks my soul
In the ghettos of the city
I was raised in the words of no pity
Mama and daddy worked so hard to earn every penny

Something kept holding them back
Was it because they're black?
By the youths dealing with the gangsters and got caught
Deep in somewhere around there I got locked
Somebody tell me just what I'm gonna do to make it through
Something keeps holding me back
Is it because I'm black?
Something keeps holding me back
Is it because we're black?

We've got to make it out of the ghetto
'Cause it's so rough down there in the ghetto
You don't know what it's like, you don't know
It's so loose down there in the ghetto
And it's so tough down there
You don't know what it's like in the ghetto, no no

Something keeps holding us back
Is it because we're black?
Someone please tell me
Just what I'm gonna do to make it through

Something keeps holding me back
Is it because I'm black?
And don't let it hold you back
Don't let it hold you back
Is it wrong to be white?
And is it wrong to be black?
Does your colour make you cool?
Does that make you alright?
Don't let it hold you back
Don't let it hold you back
Don't let it, don't let it, don't let it hold you back
Don't let it, don't let it, don't let it hold you back
Don't let it, don't let it, don't let it hold you back
Don't let it, don't let it, don't let it hold you back
We've got to make it out of the ghetto
'Cause it's so rough down there in the ghetto
It's so loose down there
And you don't know, you don't know, no
It's so rough down there in the ghetto
We've got to make it out
It's so much peace down there in the ghetto

Something keeps holding us back
Is it because I'm black?
Something keeps holding us back
Is it because we're black?
I wanna know right now
Dark brown shade of my skin
Only add colours to my tears