Correction Lyrics Let Me See Your I.D. by Gil Scott-Heron

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South Africa

Everybody uses black and white
To try to draw the line between wrong and right
But if you use your eyes to really see
You know we don't see realistically

Because skin that's white is really pink
So either you can't see or I can't think
Because skin that's black is really brown
But that don't make the world go round

Now to put a color on skin to me is a sin
That's why apartheid must never win
We must put an end to this my friend
And should never be allowed to happen again

It's time to wake up and do some good
To try to see each other the way we should
Because looking at the people I sometimes find
That Sun City is in the mind

I was just watching the TV the other night
The [?] should appear but you know
Walter Cronkite said the Blues
And it came to me how much of our vocabulary we seem to get TV now a days
Calling things whatever they call 'em even if they collect
First thing that came to me was like *third world* you know?
Like, if you ask someone from here like, where is the *third world*
They might say "Oh yah man, I know I know, it's the disco
You go about three blocks then take a left"
Or they might tell you the *third world* is a new health food restaurant
I know the first time I heard there was trouble in the Middle East
I thought they was talking about Pittsburg

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