All Bones are White Songtext
von Kevin Godley

All I know is what they told me
Something about you getting paid what you were owed
Bet they never looked into your eyes
While you could still see through ′em
To them you were just another mess on the road

Were you pimped out as entertainment
For some sick Jim Crowe party?
So they could watch you do it dirty
And watch you doing it black
Guess they were thinking you were just another whore
Who'd do anything for money
And they took you behind the station and did just that

All bones are white (white, white, white)
All bones are white (white, white, white)


Man, they′re just the type to bang you up
Against the wall between shifts without thinking
And leave you in the garbage, where garbage belongs
Then take a long hot shower to get rid of the stink
And head on home to the wife and kids
And make like Superman all night

All bones are white (white, right, wrong)
All bones are white (damn, right, wrong)

I know they twisted everything
But I can't prove it for sure
It's all there in black and white
In the Bill of Rights or is it whites?
′Cause black′s the part they still choose to ignore

And they are really serious people
They don't bomb churches anymore
They use the ballot box
But when they found out you were wearing a wire
Did they lynch you with your own dreadlocks?
Now we′re a long way from pointing any fingers
'Cause it′s way down deep and it's carved in Confederate stone

We′re tryna breathe life into a cold case that's getting colder
We're tryna breathe life into a cold case that′s getting colder
We′re tryna breathe life into a cold case that's getting colder
And I′ve been advised to leave it alone!


Don't leave it alone
Never leave it alone
Nothing will ever change
If you leave it alone

All I know is what they told me when they found you (yeah, yeah)
And something about me getting paid what I′m owed (yeah, yeah)
If I'd looked into your eyes while you could still see through ′em
Would you have known? Would you have told me?
I was gonna be another mess on the road

All bones are white (white, white, white)
All bones are white (white, black, white)
All bones are white (white, wrong, right)
All bones are white (white black, white black, right wrong)

Don't leave me alone (don't leave me)
Don′t leave me alone (never leave me)
Don′t want any blood and soil
Following me home (don't, don′t, don't, don′t, don't)

Don′t leave me alone (then leave me)
They'll gon' leave me alone (never leave me)
Don′t want any blood and soil (ooh)
Following me home

Don′t leave me alone