Schism - Anthrax

Don’t look at me as a white man

I’m just a man

Don’t look at me as a black man

I’m just a man

It takes a man to deal with ignorance

Prove that you can

Like having to climb a barbwire fence

Can you tell me how it feels to be hated?

Can you tell me how it feels to be loved?

Can you show me what it means to be respected?

Or is the answer none of the above?

It’s so easy to hate your brother

It should be hard

It’s so easy to hate your friends

Why ain’t it hard?

Love an' hate come in the deck together

Play your card

Love or hate can rule you life forever

Can you tell me how it feels to be hated?

Can you tell me how it feels to be loved?

Show me what it means to be respected?

Or is the answer none of the above?

Hating, fighting, lying an' I can’t take

Bitching, screwing, crying an' I just hate

Taking, cheating, spying an' I can’t take

Hatin' an' fighting an' dissin' an' fighting an' fighting

An' fightin' an' I can’t take no

Schism, schism, sch-sch-sch-schism

A house divided can’t stand

Schism, sch-sch-sch-schism

A house divided can’t stand

Prejudice is unnatural thought

When we were kids

It’s not inherited, it is taught

When we were kids

If we were blind and had no choice

Differences hid

Would we hate each other by the tone of our voice?

Can you tell me how it feels to be hated?

Can you tell me how it feels to be loved?

Can you show me what it means to be respected?

Or is the answer none of the above?

Hating, fighting, lying an' I can’t take

Bitching, screwing, crying an' I just hate

Taking, cheating, spying an' I can’t take

Hatin' an' fightin' an' dissin' an' fighting an' fighting

An' fightin an' I can’t take no

Schism, schism, sch-sch-sch-schism

A house divided can’t stand

Schism, sch-sch-sch-schism

A house divided can’t stand

An' I can’t take no schism

Schism, sch-sch-sch-schism

A house divided can’t stand

Schism, sch-sch-sch-schism

A house divided can’t stand