All I want to say is that they don’t really care about us / Don’t worry what people say, we know the truth / All I want to say is that they don’t really care about us / Enough is enough of this garbage
Skin head, dead head, everybody gone bad / Situation, aggravation, everybody, allegation / In the suit, on the news, everybody, dog food / Bang bang, shot dead, everybody’s gone mad
All I wanna say is that they don’t really care about us / All I wanna say is that they don’t really care about us
Beat me, hate me, you can never break me / Will me, thrill me, you can never kill me / Jew me, sue me, everybody do me / Kick me, kike me, don’t you black or white me
All I wanna say is that they don’t really care about us / All I wanna say is that they don’t really care about us
Tell me, what has become of my life? / I have a wife and two children who love me / I am the victim of police brutality, now / I’m tired of being the victim of hate / You’re ripping me of my pride, oh, for God’s sake / I look to heaven to fulfill its prophecy, set me free
Skin head, dead head, everybody’s gone bad / Trepidation, speculation, everybody, allegation / In the suit, on the news, everybody, dog food / Black male, blackmail, throw the brother in jail
All I wanna say is that they don’t really care about us / All I wanna say is that they don’t really care about us
Tell me, what has become of my rights? / Am I invisible ’cause you ignore me? / Your proclamation promised me free liberty, now / I’m tired of being the victim of shame / They’re throwing me in a class with a bad name / I can’t believe this is the land from which I came
You know, I really do hate to say it / The government don’t wanna see / But if Roosevelt was livin’ / He wouldn’t let this be, no, no
Skin head, dead head, everybody’s gone bad / Situation, speculation, everybody, litigation / Beat me, bash me, you can never trash me / Hit me, kick me, you can never get me
All I wanna say is that they don’t really care about us / All I wanna say is that they don’t really care about us
Some things in life / They just don’t wanna see / But if Martin Luther was livin’ / He wouldn’t let this be, no, no
Skin head, dead head, everybody’s gone bad / Situation, segregation, everybody, allegation / In the suit, on the news, everybody, dog food / Kick me, kike me, don’t you wrong or right me
All I wanna say is that they don’t really care about us…
[By Michael Jackson © Epic Records – Sony / Atv Music Publishing LLC, 1995]