Don't see me from a distance

Don't look at my smile, and think that I don't know

What's under and behind me

I don't want you to look at me and think

What's in you is in me, what's in me is to help them

Roughneck and rudeness

We should be using on the ones who practiced wicked charms

For the sword and the stone

Bad to the bone

The battle's not over

Even when it's won

And when a child is born into this world

It has no concept

Of the tone the skin it's living in

It's not a second

We're 7 seconds away

Just as long as I stay

I'll be waiting

It's not a second

We're 7 seconds away

Just as long as I stay

I'll be waiting

I'll be waiting

I'll be waiting

I assume the reasons that push us to change everything

I would like us to forget about their color so we can hope

Too many views on race that make them desperate

Let's leave the doors wide open

So they can talk about their pain and joy

Then we can give them information that will bring us all together

Changer

7 seconds away

Just as long as I stay

I'll be waiting

It's not a second

We're seven seconds away

Just as long as I stay

I'll be waiting

I'll be waiting

I'll be waiting

And when a child is born into this world

It has no concept

Of the tone the skin it's living in

And there's a million voices

And there's a million voices

To tell you what you should be thinking

So you better sober up for just a second

We're 7 seconds away

Just as long as I stay

I'll be waiting

It's not a second

We're 7 seconds away

Just as long as I stay

I'll be waiting

It's not a second

We're 7 seconds away

Just as long as I stay

I'll be waiting [fade out]