Color Line (Alternate Version)

Little girl in a big town with a silver spoon

One parent black, one parent white

Made her way to a school

With the children of the rainbow

But inside her eyes she was color blind

But then she met a black child

Who the people call a victim of a messed up system

They both tried but they couldn't see eye to eye

He said, &quotGirl you gotta choose

Which side you wanna stand on

If you wanna stand with me

I wanna know, who do you think you really are?&quot

And she said

&quotTell me where do I stand

When I stand on the color line?

We're so quick to judge, nobody knows

Tell me what I should be

When I stand on the color line?

And I wonder who really knows&quot

Made her way in to a college

When the girl turned seventeen

So beautiful, so very wise

She had a vision of a family,

home and her own career

She remained the apple of her parents eye

Then she met a white child

Who said the he loved her,

didn't care about culture

&quotYou can be whatever you want today

But you know you gotta choose

Which side you wanna stand on

If you wanna stand with me

I wanna know, who do you think you really are?&quot

And she said

&quotTell me where do I stand

When I stand on the color line?

We're so quick to judge, nobody knows

Tell me what I should be

When I stand on the color line?

And I wonder who really knows&quot

A grown woman in a bed

At a local sanitarium

The nurse feeds her food

and then combs her hair

In a place where her mind

used to be she remembers

How her life was good when she used to care

Then her mind flashed back

To the night when both men

asked her to marry

But every offer comes along with a deal