Ebony and ivory
Live together in perfect harmony
Side by side on my piano keyboard
Oh Lord, why don't we?

We all know
 That people are the same wherever you go
 There's good and bad in everyone

We learn to live when we learn to give each other
 What we need to survive
 Together alive

Ebony and ivory
 Live together in perfect harmony
 Side by side on my piano keyboard
 Oh Lord, why don't we?

We all know
 That people are the same wherever you go
 There is good and bad, mmm, in everyone

We learn to live when we learn to give each other
 What we need to survive
 Together alive

Ebony and ivory
 Live together in perfect harmony
 Side by side on my piano keyboard
 Oh Lord, why don't we?
 Side by side on my piano keyboard
 Oh Lord, why don't we?

Ivory
 (Ebony, ivory) Ebony
 (Living in perfect harmony) Ivory

Ebony
 (Living in perfect harmony) Ivory
 (Ebony, ivory) Ebony
 (Living in perfect harmony)

There's a cry in the distance
It's a voice that comes from deep within (yeah)
There's a cry asking why
I pray the answer's up ahead, yeah
'Cause I know where I've been

There's a road we've been travelling
Lost so many on the way
But the riches will be plenty
Worth the price, the price we had to pay

There's a dream (dream) in the future
There's a struggle that we have yet to win
And there's pride in my heart
'Cause I know where I'm going, yes, I do
And I know where I've been, yeah

There's a road (there's a road)
We must travel (we must travel)
There's a promise (there is a promisse)
We must make (that we must make)
But the riches (oh, but the riches)
Will be plenty (the riches will be plenty, yeah)
Worth the risk (worth the risk)
And the chances that we take (and the chances that we take)

There's a dream in the future
There's a struggle (struggle) that we have yet to win
(We have yet to win)
Use that pride (pride) in our hearts (in our hearts)
To lift us up (lift us up) to tomorrow (ooh)
'Cause just to sit still would be a sin

I know it, I know it, I know where I'm going
Lord knows I know where I've been
Oh, when we win, I'll give thanks to my God
'Cause I know where I've been (yeah, yeah)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roEK0Ga48w0

Now I believe in miracles
And a miracle has happened tonight

But, if you're thinkin' about my baby
It don't matter if you're black or white

They print my message in the Saturday Sun
I had to tell them I ain't second to none

And I told about equality and it's true
Either you're wrong or you're right

But, if you're thinkin' about my baby
It don't matter if you're black or white

I am tired of this devil
I am tired of this stuff
I am tired of this business
Sew when the going gets rough
I ain't scared of your brother
I ain't scared of no sheets
I ain't scared of nobody
Girl, when the going gets mean

Protection
For gangs, clubs, and nations
Causing grief in human relations
It's a turf war on a global scale
I'd rather hear both sides of the tale
See, it's not about races
Just places, faces
Where your blood comes from
Is were your space is
I've seen the bright get duller
I'm not going to spend my life being a color

Don't tell me you agree with me
When I saw you kicking dirt in my eye

But, if you're thinkin' about my baby
It don't matter if you're black or white

I said if you're thinkin' of being my baby
It don't matter if you're black or white

I said if you're thinkin' of being my brother
It don't matter if you're black or white

Ooh, ooh
Yea, yea, yea now
Ooh, ooh
Yea, yea, yea now

It's black, it's white
It's tough for you to get by (yeah, yeah, yeah)
It's black, it's white

It's black, it's white
It's tough for you to get by (yeah, yeah, yeah)
It's black, it's white

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdGDuzVD7rg

Lord forgive me, I've been running
Running blind in truth
I'ma rain, I'ma rain on this bitter love
Tell the sweet I'm new

I'm telling these tears, go and fall away, fall away
May the last one burn into flames

Freedom
Freedom
I can't move
Freedom, cut me loose
Singin', freedom
Freedom
Where are you?
'Cause I need freedom, too
I break chains all by myself
Won't let my freedom rot in hell
Hey! I'ma keep running
'Cause a winner don't quit on themselves

I'ma wade, I'ma wave through the waters
Tell the tide, "Don't move"
I'ma riot, I'ma riot through your borders
Call me bulletproof

Lord forgive me, I've been runnin'
Runnin' blind in truth
I'ma wade, I'ma wave through your shallow love
Tell the deep I'm new

I'm telling these tears, go and fall away, fall away
May the last one burn into flames

Freedom
Freedom
I can't move
Freedom, cut me loose
Singin', freedom
Freedom
Where are you?
'Cause I need freedom, too
I break chains all by myself
Won't let my freedom rot in hell
Hey! I'ma keep running
'Cause a winner don't quit on themselves

Ten Hail Marys, I meditate for practice
Channel nine news tell me I'm movin' backwards
Eight blocks left, death is around the corner
Seven misleadin' statements 'bout my persona
Six headlights wavin' in my direction
Five-o askin' me what's in my possession
Yeah I keep runnin', jump in the aqueducts
Fire hydrants and hazardous
Smoke alarms on the back of us
But mama don't cry for me, ride for me
Try for me, live for me
Breathe for me, sing for me
Honestly guidin' me
I could be more than I gotta be
Stole from me, lied to me, nation hypocrisy
Code on me, drive on me
Wicked, my spirit inspired me
Like yeah, open correctional gates in higher desert
Yeah, open our mind as we cast away oppression
Yeah, open the streets and watch our beliefs
And when they carve my name inside the concrete
I pray it forever reads

Freedom
Freedom
I can't move
Freedom, cut me loose
Singin', freedom! Freedom! Where are you?
'Cause I need freedom, too
I break chains all by myself
Won't let my freedom rot in hell
Hey! I'ma keep running
'Cause a winner don't quit on themselves

What you want from me?
Is it truth you seek?
Oh, Father, can you hear me?
What you want from me?
Is it truth you seek?
Oh, Father, can you hear me?
Hear me out

"I had my ups and downs
But I always find the inner strength to pull myself up
I was served lemons, but I made lemonade"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijJyB2HstNU

I took my baby on a Saturday bang
Boy is that girl with you?
Yes we're one and the same

Now I believe in miracles
And a miracle has happened tonight

But, if you're thinkin' about my baby
It don't matter if you're black or white

They print my message in the Saturday Sun
I had to tell them I ain't second to none

And I told about equality and it's true
Either you're wrong or you're right

But, if you're thinkin' about my baby
It don't matter if you're black or white

I am tired of this devil
I am tired of this stuff
I am tired of this business
Sew when the going gets rough
I ain't scared of your brother
I ain't scared of no sheets
I ain't scared of nobody
Girl, when the going gets mean

Protection
For gangs, clubs, and nations
Causing grief in human relations
It's a…

   

It's not easy bein' green
It seems you blend in with so many other ordinary things
And people tend to pass you over 'cause you're
Not standin' out like flashy sparkles on the water
Or stars in the sky

But green is the colour of spring
And green can be cool and friendly-like
And green can be big like an ocean
Or important like a mountain
Or tall like a tree

When green is all there is to be

It could make you wonder why
But why wonder, why wonder?
I am green and it'll do fine
It's beautiful
And I think it's what I want to be

And green can be big like an ocean
Or important like a mountain
Or tall like a tree

When green is all there is to be
It could make you wonder why
But why wonder, why wonder?
I am green and it'll do fine
It's beautiful
And I think it's what I want to be

The message in the song is that he wants to be someone else.
When Kermit the Frog sang “Bein' Green” on the Sesame Street show, he expressed a feeling. of being undervalued and overlooked because he was the color green.
we think that the message is that everyone should be happy with who and how they look.

Black hand
White hand
Black man plows white man's white land
White cotton in the white fields
Black slaves with their black backs peeled
The past kills the black feet in the black night
Running fast from the black dogs with a black bite
But should I act white?
Cause what I've heard is only
Black is darkness and white is good
It's like the light right, right
Black Bible, white pages, black ink
Used wrong by the white racists, blacks think
But white mans, white plans are white washed
That's why they built these white walls
I'm praying that they might

Fall

I guess we're color blind
I guess we're color blind
Blinded in our sin
To all the ways of our creator
For He made us in his image
But we all some image haters
I guess we're color blind
I guess we're color blind

Just black, just white

Mixed together all grey
We were never meant to be this way

All I see
Are shades of grey
This rain pours down

My window pane
All I see

Are shades of grey
This rain pours down
My window, window pane

Looking through this window all I ever see is pain
I guess I'll call it window pain
A white widow looking out a white window
Bit by a black widow
Ironically that's widow pain
A little poison with a little rain
A little boy was killed, his skin was stained
At least that's what they thought
And so he hangs
I once heard a white Christian man
Point the finger in his hand
At black skin and say it was the mark of Cain
Dang, so twisted
But I heard the same and yet the opposite
From a black Christian
So I guess we're all the mark of Cain

Since we kill each other we're clearly disabled, slain
I got some black family that don't even know it yet
My white family never seems to grab a hold of it

But my true kin is every tone, every color
Painted red
All my sisters and my brothers
But

Break these chains (Break these chains, break these chains) Break these chains Lord
Oh please
(Break these chains, break these chains)
Break these chains

We need You to break these chains
It's obvious we're all enslaved
On the bottom of the see we pray
That You save us with amazing grace
We need You to break these chains
Jesus

https://youtu.be/XXnXQVtZ6MA

adi and eliana
  

The world is black, the world is white
It turns by day and then by night
A child is black, a child is white
Together they grow to see the light
To see the light

The world is black, the world is white
It turns by day and then by night
A child is black, a child is white
The whole world looks upon the sight
A beautiful sight

The world is black, the world is white
It turns by day and then by night
A child is black, a child is white
Together they grow to see the light
To see the light

C'mon
Get it
Get it
Oh yeah
Yeah
Keep it up now, around the world
Little boys and little girls
Yeah
Yeah-eah, oh-ohhh
https://youtu.be/y_2YcMlKVPQ

the song is from the  the movie Pocahontas 

performed by Judy Kuhn and came out in the movie in 1995

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9MvdMqKvpU

the song talks about how you have to see beyond your eyes, the wind doesn’t really have color but it still has power and meaning. The song says that you think the only people are ones that look and think like you, but really if you just try to understand them, you will learn new things.

 The song says how everything has a life, a spirit and a name.

It continuously asks you to connect to people, because if you’re narrow minded and don’t try to look from a different angle you might miss something wonderful

“For whether we are white or copper skinned” you shouldn’t judge people by the color of there skin. We should work together despite differences

lyrics:

You think I'm an ignorant savage

And you've been so many places

I guess it must be so

But still I cannot see

If the savage one is me

How can there be so much that you don't know

You don't know

You think you own whatever land you land on

The Earth is just a dead thing you can claim

But I know every rock and tree and creature

Has a life, has a spirit, has a name

You think the only people who are people

Are the people who look and think like you

But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger

You'll learn things you never knew, you never knew

Have you ever heard the wolf cry to the blue corn moon

Or asked the grinning bobcat why he grinned

Can you sing with all the voices of the mountains

Can you paint with all the colors of the wind

Can you paint with all the colors of the wind

Come run the hidden pine trails of the forest

Come taste the sun sweet berries of the Earth

Come roll in all the riches all around you

And for once, never wonder what they're worth

The rainstorm and the river are my brothers

The heron and the otter are my friends

And we are all connected to each other

In a circle, in a hoop that never ends

How high will the sycamore grow

If you cut it down, then you'll never know

And you'll never hear the wolf cry to the blue corn moon

For whether we are white or copper skinned

We need to sing with all the voices of the mountains

We need to paint with all the colors of the wind

You can own the Earth and still

All you'll own is Earth until

You can paint with all the colors of the wind

Here I am, stuck on this couch
Scrolling through my notes
Heart was broken, still no growing, nah

Waking up to headlines
Filled with devastation again
My heart is broken
But I keep going

Pain, but I won't let it turn into hate
No, I won't let it change me
Never losing sight of the one I keep inside
Now, I know it
Yeah, I know it

You can't take my youth away
This soul of mine will never break
As long as I wake up today
You can't take my youth away

You can't take my youth away
This soul of mine will never break
As long as I wake up today (as long as I wake up)
You can't take my youth away
You can't take my youth away

It's hard to sleep at night
Oh, and what's outside?
Feeling hopeless
I need focus

You hit me with words
I never heard come out your mouth
To be honest
I don't want it, no

Pain, but I won't let it turn into hate
No, I won't let it change me

You can't take my youth away
This soul of mine will never break
As long as I wake up today
You can't take my youth away

You can't take my youth away
This soul of mine will never break
As long as I wake up today (as long as I wake up)
You can't take my youth away
You can't take my youth away (you can't take my youth)
You can't take my youth away (oh, oh, yeah)

Pain, but I won't let it turn into hate
No, I won't let it change me
Pain, but I won't let it turn into hate
No, I won't let it change me

You can't take my youth away
This soul of mine will never break
As long as I wake up today
You can't take my youth away (youth away)

You can't take my youth away
This soul of mine will never break
As long as I wake up today (as long as I wake up)
You can't take my youth away (oh, yeah)

You can't take my youth away
This soul of mine will never break
As long as I wake up today
You can't take my youth away (oh, oh, yeah)

You can't take my youth away
This soul of mine will never break
As long as I wake up today (as long as I wake up)
You can't take my youth away 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJUGAIf1Px0

I'm a young black man
Doing all that I can (Can)
To stand
Oh, but when I look around
And I see what's being done
To my kind (Kind)

Every day (Day)
I'm being hunted as prey
My people don't want no trouble
We've had enough struggle

I just wanna live
God protect me
(Just stay right by my side)
I just wanna live
God protect me
(Just stay right by my side)

So many thoughts in my head (Head)
Will I live? Or will I end up dead? (Dead, dead)
It's an unequal sequel
No matter where I be
There's no place safe for me (Me, me, me)
Oh, oh, oh-oh
I'm not asking for too much
So Lord, please, help

I just wanna live
God protect me
(Just stay right by my side)
I just wanna live
God protect me
(Just stay right by my side)

This is my battle cry (Cry, cry, cry, cry)
Oh, oh, oh whoa

I just wanna live
God protect me
(Just stay right by my side)
I just wanna live
God protect me
(Just stay right by my side)

I just wanna liv 

You know I used to paint such vibrant dreams
Now I'm colorblind, colorblind
When did my heart
Get so full of never mind, never mind
Did you know
That you stole the only thing I needed
Only black and white in my eyes
I'm colorblind

Ain't it funny that you managed
To just wash away
Even pictures that you're not in
Have started to fade
I tried to play my favorite songs
But I can't sing along
The words don't feel the same
You've taken all the best things from me
And thrown them away

I'll wait
For roses to be red again
And I hate
That you took my blue from the ocean
Give me back green greens and goldens
My purples, my blues, you stole them
How long will I be broken?

You know I used to paint such vibrant dreams
Now I'm colorblind, colorblind
When did my heart
Get so full of never mind, never mind
Did you know
That you stole the only thing I needed
Only black and white in my eyes
I'm colorblind
Only black and white in my eyes
I'm colorblind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8xbkMqsE8A

“Those were the days of the civil rights movement, which all of us cared passionately about,” McCartney recalled in Many Years From Now. “So this was really a song from me to a black woman, experiencing these problems in the States: ‘Let me encourage you to keep trying, to keep your faith, there is hope.'”



LYRICS:
Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to arise

Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these sunken eyes and learn to see
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to be free

Blackbird fly, blackbird fly
Into the light of a dark black night

Blackbird fly, blackbird fly
Into the light of a dark black night

Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to arise
You were only waiting for this moment to arise
You were only waiting for this moment to arise