He ran with the poor, dined with the sick,
found the women and men living in sin.
He would befriend them,
not just to go fix them.
The children would run to sit by his side,
tradition would say, not too close, not this
time.
He would call for them.
Oh, he would sit with them.
You could call it opposites attract
For a king to live among the pack
Or just call it like it is
The way we need to live
I don't wanna hear a song about it
If we can't live about it
No, we can't sing about it
No, we can't write about it
If we don't do something about it
Don't want no songs about it
If we can't live about it
If we can't live about it
He broke down the walls of our protocol
Not even yet born
But they found a home
Just an immigrant
He was an immigrant
And as he grew up
His empathy too
He would die to give life for me and you
An immigrant
He was an immigrant
You could call it
Opposites at tract
For a king to live among the pack
Or just call it like it is
The way we need to live
I don't wanna hear a song about it
If we can't live about it
No we can't sing about it
No we can't write about it
If we don't do something about it
Don't want no songs about it
If we can't live about it
If we can't live about it
The broken, the burdened,
imprisoned and poor
The wealthy, the widows,
skin different than yours
The orphaned, the outcasts,
who beg and who don't
The hungry, the hurting,
and without a home
The people who pray to a
God we don't serve
The protesters marching for
what we don't want
The stranger who knocks on
our door without code
Just begging for freedom that challenges ours
I don't wanna hear an
other song about it
If we can't live about it
Then we can't sing about it
No, we can't write about it
If we don't do something about it
Don't want no songs about it
If we can't, live about it
If we can't, if we can't
I don't want no song about it
Oh, if we can't, live about it
Then we can't sing about it
No, proud about it
Said I'm so tired, I'm so tired,
I'm so tired
Live about it, live about it
Mmm
No, we can't love, if we can't love
Even when we don't wanna love
We can't call it love, if we don't love
Even when we don't wanna love