Kool & The Gang - Color Line lyrics

Little girl in a big town born with a silver spoon One parent black, one parent white Made her way to a school With the children of the rainbow But inside her eyes she was color blind But then she met a black child Who the people call a victim of a messed up system They both tried but they couldn't see eye to eye He said, "Girl you gotta choose Which side you wanna stand on If you wanna stand with me I wanna know, who do you think you really are?" And she said [Chorus] "Tell me where do I stand When I stand on the color line? We're so quick to judge, nobody knows Tell me what I should be When I stand on the color line? And I wonder who really knows" Made her way into a college When the girl turned seventeen So beautiful, so very wise She had a vision of a family, Home, and her own career She remained the apple of her parents eye Then she met a white child Who said that he loved her Didn't care about culture "You can be whatever you want today But you know you gotta choose Which side you wanna stand on If you wanna stand with me I wanna know, who do you think you really are?" And she said, [Chorus] A grown woman in a bed At a local sanitarium The nurse feeds her food and then combs her hair In a place where her mind used to be she remembers How her life was good when she used to care Then her mind flashed back To the night when both men asked her to marry But every offer comes along with a deal They both said, "You gotta choose Which side you wanna stand on If you wanna stand with me How do you know, How do you know who you really are?" And she said, [Chorus]