[ti:Accidental Racist (feat. LL Co]
[ar:Brad Paisley]
[al:Wheelhouse (Deluxe Version)]
[00:27.68]To the man that waited on me
[00:30.99]at the Starbucks down on Main,
[00:33.68]
[00:34.49]I hope you understand
[00:39.28]
[00:41.46]When I put on that t-shirt,
[00:43.71]
[00:44.46]the only thing I meant to say is
[00:48.65]I'm a Skynyrd fan
[00:53.08]
[00:55.08]The red flag on my chest somehow is
[00:58.35]like the elephant in the corner of the south
[01:02.09]
[01:03.22]And I just walked him right in the room
[01:05.90]
[01:08.52]Just a proud rebel son
[01:10.40]with an 'ol can of worms
[01:12.21]
[01:12.78]Lookin' like I got a lot to learn
[01:15.40]
[01:17.33]but from my point of view
[01:20.38]
[01:21.32]I'm just a white man comin' to you
[01:25.58]from the southland
[01:28.32]
[01:29.06]Tryin' to understand
[01:31.99]what it's like not to be
[01:35.34]I'm proud of where I'm from
[01:38.71]but not everything we've done
[01:42.08]
[01:42.64]And it ain't like you
[01:44.71]and me can re-write history
[01:48.82]Our generation didn't start this nation
[01:55.31]
[01:55.93]We're still pickin' up the pieces,
[01:58.68]walkin' on eggshells,
[02:00.61]fightin' over yesterday
[02:02.61]
[02:03.61]And caught between southern
[02:07.72]pride and southern blame
[02:11.66]
[02:17.47]They called it Reconstruction,
[02:19.40]
[02:20.52]fixed the buildings,
[02:21.96]dried some tears
[02:23.27]
[02:23.95]We're still siftin' through the rubble
[02:26.57]
[02:27.20]after a hundred-fifty years
[02:29.88]
[02:30.63]I try to put myself in your shoes
[02:34.13]and that's a good place to begin
[02:36.93]
[02:38.06]But it ain't like I can walk a mile
[02:41.36]in someone else's skin
[02:43.92]'Cause I'm a white man
[02:47.44]livin' in the southland
[02:50.44]
[02:51.19]Just like you I'm more
[02:53.93]than what you see
[02:57.42]I'm proud of where I'm from
[03:01.10]but not everything we've done
[03:04.91]And it ain't like you
[03:06.96]and me can re-write history
[03:11.15]Our generation didn't start this nation
[03:18.14]And we're still paying for mistakes
[03:20.94]That a bunch of folks
[03:22.69]made long before we came
[03:24.77]
[03:25.35]And caught somewhere between southern
[03:29.90]pride and southern blame
[03:34.59]
[03:40.08]Dear Mr. White Man,
[03:41.71]I wish you understood
[03:42.75]
[03:43.31]What the world is really like
[03:44.94]when you're livin' in the hood
[03:46.62]Just because my pants are saggin'
[03:48.25]doesn't mean I'm up to no good
[03:50.06]You should try to get to know me,
[03:51.87]I really wish you would
[03:53.55]Now my chains are gold
[03:55.30]but I'm still misunderstood
[03:56.91]I wasn't there when Sherman's March
[03:58.53]turned the south into firewood
[03:59.53]
[04:00.41]I want you to get paid
[04:01.90]but be a slave I never could
[04:03.65]Feel like a new fangled Django,
[04:05.24]dodgin' invisible white hoods
[04:06.61]
[04:07.24]So when I see that white cowboy hat,
[04:09.17]I'm thinkin' it's not all good
[04:10.73]I guess we're both guilty of
[04:12.17]judgin' the cover not the book
[04:13.60]
[04:14.10]I'd love to buy you a beer,
[04:15.74]conversate and clear the air
[04:17.48]But I see that red flag
[04:18.79]and I think you wish I wasn't here
[04:20.11]I'm just a white man
[04:23.16](If you don't judge my do-rag)
[04:24.10]Comin' to you from the southland
[04:26.53](I won't judge your red flag)
[04:27.65]Tryin' to understand what it's like not to be
[04:33.46]I'm proud of where I'm from
[04:36.27](If you don't judge my gold chains)
[04:37.52]But not everything we've done
[04:39.90](I'll forget the iron chains)
[04:41.15]it ain't like you and me can re-write history
[04:47.27](Can't re-write history baby)
[04:48.58]Oh, Dixieland
[04:52.64](The relationship between the Mason-Dixon
[04:54.49]needs some fixin')
[04:55.42]I hope you understand
[04:59.53]
[05:00.35]what this is all about
[05:03.70](Quite frankly I'm a black Yankee
[05:04.83]but I've been thinkin' about this lately)
[05:06.31]
[05:07.05]I'm a son of the new south
[05:10.92]
[05:13.04](The past is the past, you feel me)
[05:14.96]And I just want to make things right
[05:20.20]
[05:20.76](Let bygones be bygones)
[05:21.95]Where all that's left is southern pride
[05:28.19]
[05:30.50](RIP Robert E. Lee
[05:31.87]
[05:32.56]but I've gotta thank Abraham Lincoln
[05:34.04]for freeing me, know what I mean)
[05:35.99]
[05:37.61]It's real, it's real
[05:41.57]
[05:43.75]It's truth