Minority

Nobody deserves to die for being who they are

Nobody deserves to be attacked or told that they should change,

“Oh, if you only acted differently, things wouldn’t be this way,”

You should be able to hold your head high as you walk down the street

And express exactly who you are to everyone you meet

Do you know what it’s like to be the only one of your kind

In a room full of people who are very hostile

To part of who you are, though they claim to be cool,

As long as you hide yourself and follow the rules

We keep crying for justice, but I don’t understand

How we can have justice when there’s an us and a them,

How can we love others when we categorize

And decide who is worthy of love in our eyes?

Racism’s ridiculous, sexism is wrong,

But for years we have been singing this same old song

Since the beginning of time, and yet still we fight

Because people are still killed just for not being white

“If you don’t believe this way, you’re not seeing truth,”

“Your sexuality is just a phase you’re going through,”

“Make sure to behave and act in ways that’re accepted”

“Your culture’s not worthy of being respected”

“He was in a place that he shouldn’t have been!”

We designate places for people like them,

Then there’s people like us, who can live at our side

And for this kind of thing innocent people die?

We need a change of heart and to drop all pretense,

For we cannot judge with any righteousness

Those whom we do not know, those whom we cannot see,

So let us not judge and let love set us free!