Man Against Man

There is a fiery cross but it's not the cross of Christ

And sometimes it smolders and sometimes it rages in the night

And whether you glimpse it or see it glaring, it's a horrible sight

'Cause it has absolutely nothing to do with light

And it's fueled by a sin as ancient as man

And in some places I swear it's caused a curse in the land

And it sends up a stench no holy God could ever stand

And it's man against man, black and it's white

And it's man against man, it's wrong and never right

Man against man, it's gentile and Jew

And when it's man against man, Lord

God, it's man against You

It's been disguised as preference in our rhetoric and prose

And dressed up like something else

When underneath like a cancer it grows

And unchecked it breeds corruption beneath deceptive clothes

In a vain attempt to hide what only the truth will expose

And it's bred in our fathers and passed on to their sons

And the privileged deprived of the genius of the simpleton

It can raise its ugly head in nearly everyone

And it's man against man, it's black and it's white

And it's man against man, it's wrong and never right

Oh, man against man, it's gentile and Jew

And when it's man against man, Lord

God, it's man against You

Well I've seen it in our churches and I've seen it in our schools

And it's thriving in our neighborhoods and our social party rules

In Mississippi, New York City, in Belfast or Sudan

Where the colors change but the politics are still man against man

But on a cross of crucifixion two thousand years ago

Blood was shed for the sins of every man, now I know

At the foot of that cross the ground is level and there's no

There's no man against man, no black, no white

There's no man against man, it's wrong and never right

No man against man, neither gentile nor Jew

'Cause when it's man against man, Lord

God, it's man against

Man against man, it's black and it's white

It's man against man, it's wrong and never right

Oh, man against man, it's gentile and Jew

And when it's man against man, Lord

God, it's man against You

Whoa, it's man against You