Why?

Why did you try to hurt me

Did you really want to kill me

Tell me why (3x)

Why do we have to fight

Why must we fight

I have to defend myself from crack last night

I know I am black

You know you are white

I'm proud of my black skin

And you are proud of your white

Why did you try to hurt me

Did you really kill me

Tell me why (3x)

We don't need no british movement

Nor the Ku Klux Klan

Nor the national front

Make me a angry man

I just wanna live in peace

Why can't you be the same

Why should I live in fear?

You'll follow like sheep in a wolf's clothes

You too scared to make a speech

Do you really like

Without a thousand police

Protecting your rights

Protecting under your views

Inside the fights

But you will protect me

From you in the night

Why did you try to hurt me

Tell me why (3x)

Did you really kill me

Tell me why (3x)

You'll follow like sheep in a wolf's clothes