Garland Jeffreys Racial Repertoire Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Before I go out on the street
Put on my armor of defense
I never know who I'm gonna meet
To me it never made much sense

[Chorus 1]
You don't have to go too far
Riding in the subway car
Walk inside a cocktail bar
To feel the racial repertoire

[Verse 2]
Ever since I was a child
Eyes on me in the grocery store
Maybe it was just a style
Never could figure out what it was for

[Chorus 2]
Lightning bus in a jelly jar
Driving in my father's car
Even priests and movie stars
They got a racial repertoire
A racial repertoire
Oh oh oh
Racial repertoire
Racial Reprtoire
Oh oh oh

[Bridge]
It's become unconscious
Deep within the psyche
Generations stymied me
A permanent scar

[Verse 3]
Even on the beach
When you think you're out of reach
Eyes are back on you
Like a tainted residue

[Verse 4]
Even in your neighbourhood
When you think you've been understood
A walk in a whisky bar Feel that racial repertoire

[Chorus 1]
You don't have to go too far
Riding in the subway car
Walk inside a cocktail bar
To feel the racial repertoire

Racial repertoire
Racial repertoire
Oh oh oh
Racial repertoire
Racial Reprtoire
Oh oh oh

[Verse 3]
Even on the beach
When you think you're out of reach
Eyes are back on you
Like a tainted residue

[Verse 4]
Even in your neighbourhood
When you think you've been understood
A walk in a whisky bar
Feel that racial repertoire

Blood spit out on the streets
Blood splatter on the wall
Blood spit out on the streets
Blood splatter on the wall
Blood spit out on the streets
Blood splatter on the wall
Blood spit out on the streets
Blood splatter on the wall
Blood spit out on the streets
Blood splatter on the wall
Blood spit out on the streets
Blood splatter on the wall
Blood spit out on the streets
Blood splatter on the wall