歌词
"We will replace your shack for a new brick house
Your wood furnace with oil heat"
In this place blood moves through black face
My blood
In this place feet are tied in satin chains
My feet
"We will provide you with water and appliances
Washer, dryer, flushed toilet
We will replace your misery with hope
Just sign the deal and leave"
So, schools have been separated
And some communities have been bulldozed
And churches have turned me away
Even love has been betrayed and my gifts are n to fail
"You will become a new man
Jobs and education will be provided
And we will introduce cultural appreciation
So that we could be close rather than divided
Sign the deal
Sign the deal"
The cost in this place
My color has been made to matter when it should not
My lips and nose have been made to matter when they should not
Even the quality of my hair is set
To reliquial when it should not matter
"We will rebuild your church
We will offer you composition
We will give you a plaque and call you heroes of our nation"
But I will still lift up my hands
Because my hands they do not love
But I love them still
My feet will whirl and dance
Because my feet they do not love
But I love them still
And my voice will sing in church
"Just sign the deal
Sign the deal"
Because still I must rise
So that here and this place
Even in midst oppression
When both they and I look into my soul
It will still live in boat of beauty
And it will still be mine