Color of Your Skin

from Happy Isles by luke hurley

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lyrics

The colour of your skin
Don't mean a thing
What's pumping through your head

Through the pleasure and the pain
In a world locked in war
Like I said before

Don't know what we're fighting for
And I don't know nobody who sanctions war
Yet we're fighting nobody

The colour of our skin
Don't mean a thing

The colour of our skin

Yes you heard me right

You bet your life
It's not the colour of your skin

Or the place you’re living in

Watching movies
Cause we've been deceived

We find a reason for a war

What's pumping through your head
Did you hear what I said

The colour that is spilt
To justify a war

But all the same colour
Is pumping through your heart
Pumping through your head

And you guessed again
The colour isn't red

Not the colour of your skin

All the same colour within
The same colour within
The same colour within
The colour is red

Pumping through your heart
Pumping through your head

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from Happy Isles, released February 25, 2020
Takoma 6 string guitar.

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luke hurley Auckland, New Zealand

Luke is a guitarist and singer / songwriter. Born in Kenya, grew up in Zanzibar till age 12 then moved with family to NZ. He achieved a degree of early success on student radio with the song "Mona Lisa" in the early 1980s at University of Otago in Dunedin. All recordings are original songs by Luke. 2 songs were featured on the film 'Insatiable Moon'.12 string guitars made by Steve Barkman. ... more

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