What Colour Is God? lyrics

Song information

Artist: Fish
Album: Sunsets On Empire

Lyrics

I was thinking about thinking about thinking about thinking I was thinking
Contemplating situations and the visions blew my mind
In the gutter I was crawling as the shells just kept on falling all around me

(Chorus): what colour is god? why can't you tell me, can't you tell me?
What colour is god? why can't you tell me, can't you tell me?
What colour is god? why can't you tell me, can't you tell me?

As the library was burning and the pages kept on turning back in history
As the doorways they were full of refugees and lonely people staring at me, they were asking of me
What colour is god?
What colour is god?
What colour is god?

No matter what I say or do, it never looks like making any difference
Don't keep on looking down at me as if I don't exist as if I'm not here
Don't focus all your anger and resentment that you have
Don't blame it on me, don't blame it on me

(Chorus):

Black brother in an open sports car pulled over by suspicious officer
Uniform man got a nervous partner
Weapon was pulled from a shoulder holster
White jogger see the roadside gangsta
Heart beat just a little bit faster
Rasta man speaking in the island patois
Gonna give you the righteous answer

Why can't you tell me, can't you tell me?
What colour is god?

(Chorus):

No matter what I say or do it never looks like making any difference
Don't focus all your anger and resentment that you have
Don't blame it on me, don't blame it on me

(Chorus):

Please, please, please tell me
Please, please, please tell me
What colour is god?