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History Lesson Lyrics

Artist: Living Colour
Album: Time's Up

V. Reid

In Africa, music is not an art form as much as it is a means of communication.
A Negro has got no name
Quite often, the words of the song are meaningless.
A Negro has got no name
We are wearing the name of our master
etc. (much overlap and repetition)

Comments/Interpretations

by sadar7 on 1/24/2011 11:41am
Actual lyrics:
"History Lesson"
In Africa, music is not an art form as much as it is a means of communication.
A negro has got no name.
Quite often, the words of the song are meaningless.
A negro has got no name.
We are wearing the name of our master.
The slave had no separate identity.
A negro has got no name (Civilization started way before Europe).
He was never asked who he was (They taught us to be against one another).
A negro has got no name.
Another instrument used to control the mind of the slaves was religion.
(Is us slaves gonna be free in heaven?)
In Africa, music is not an art form as much as it is a means of communication.