Looking Like the Enemy Lyrics

There’s no telling

If things’ll ever change

Us hurting each other, time and time again

But for now, my big concern is

To make it to tomorrow

Where I’m not judged

For the way I look to them

And to them, I may look like I’m strong and wild

And that’s just the way I want it to be

Instead of them sensing a weakness to exploit

Because I’m

Looking like the enemy

They say there is no separation here anymore

There’s no caste lives and that biased bigotry is gone

And that is so easy to say if you’re the privileged

Or oblivious to what’s

Really going on

They can go where they want, see and do what they will

And look with little more than a dull interest in me

But I can’t help the way things are right now

Or the fact that I’m

Looking like the enemy

Stereotypes, prejudices, discrimination and such

They fuel racism and hatred from anothers past

They don’t know me, my passions; who I really am

They only know of what they see standing in their path

There’s no telling

If anything will ever change

But here we’re hurting each other because of some father’s sin

So for now my big hope is to get

To a time and place

Where I won’t be judged for the color of my skin

And to you, I might look like I’m the menace

A threat

It’s a real drag to be the one striped of dignity

And I’m reduced to keeping a low profile, and

In my own town

It’s all because I’m

Looking like the enemy

Looking like the enemy