Lyrics: Drowning
Album: Cracked Rear View
Artist: Hootie & the Blowfish
 
Trouble with the world is we’re too busy to think about it, all right 

Why is there a rebel flag hanging from the state house walls? 

Tired of hearin’ this shit about heritage not hate 

Time to make the world a better place 

Why must we hate one another? 

Well no matter what we gotta live together 

Just that you don’t look like me, tell me what do you see 

When we pass on the street what do you wanna see 

P.E.’s coming is all I gotta say 

Wanna turn and run away 

They’re just telling you how they see it 

Right or wrong they don’t care, you wish that they would quit 

chorus: 
Drowning in a sea of tears 

Hatred trying to hide your fears 

Living only for yourself 

Hating everybody else 

Cause they don’t look like you 

Nanci singing it’s a hard life wherever you go 

About some fat racist living in Chicago 

Trying to teach his kids to hate everyone 

Well tell me why is that something you wanna teach your son? 

Why must we hate one another? 

When the people in the church, they tell me you’re my brother 

You don’t walk like me, … you don’t talk like me, saying 

Go back to Africa, I just don’t understand 

(chorus) 
I’m trying to be someone that he could look up to, but 

When I walk down the street, tell me what do you see 

I’m a man, I’m a man, I’m a man 

No I’m not like you 

Why do you hate me so 

I don’t know, I don’t know, I don’t know 

Hating everybody else cause they don’t look like you