Momus - Whites lyrics

The whites played by black actors
Are getting out of bed
Stretching into yoga poses
Eating their white bread
Drinking their white coffee
Wearing their white masks
Reading their white newspaper
The White Telegraph

The most flagrant injustices cannot
Dismay the whites they shrug at the decay of
Our outdated human rights
The whites played by black actors take
Their white children to school
Driving through safe neighbourhoods
In armoured vehicles
The whites are wearing whiteface
Even though they're white
The whites play their white music at
All hours of the night
And blacked up neighbours played by
Whites hammer on the wall shouting "Whitey
Keep it down!" to no response at all

And the whites carry umbrellas
Blackened by the rain
The whites have special areas
Set aside on trains
The whites believe in platforms
Their politicians itch
To whiten up the borders and
Fatten up the rich

You make me want to be a terrorist
Your whiteness makes me sick
With your milk-white skin
Your milk-white prick
Your milquetoast mannerisms
Your milquetoast art
I want to take your whiteness
Now and rip it apart

But the whites played by black
Actors are spiralling the drain
Dying out is such a bore yet living is a pain
By 2099, when the whites have all but gone
The whites played by black actors will
Be there to carry on