Black Gold

Album: Grave Dancers Union (1992)
Charted: 26
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  • Two boys on a playground
    Tryin' to push each other down
    See the crowd gather 'round
    Nothing attracts a crowd like a crowd

    Black gold in a white plight
    Won't you fill up the tank, let's go for a ride
    I don't care 'bout no wheelchair
    I've got so much left to do with my life

    Moving backwards through time
    Never learn, never mind
    That side's yours, this side's mine
    Brother, you ain't my kind

    You're a black soldier, white fight
    Won't you fill up the tank, let's go for a ride
    Sure, like to feel some pride
    But this place just makes me feel sad inside

    Mother, do you know where your kids are tonight?

    Keeps the kids off the streets
    Gives 'em something to do, something to eat
    This spot was a playground
    This flat land used to be a town

    Black gold in a white plight
    Won't you fill up the tank, let's go for a ride
    Sure, like to feel some pride
    But this place just makes me feel sad inside

    Black gold in a white plight
    Won't you fill up the tank, let's go for a ride
    I don't care 'bout no wheelchair
    I've got so much left to do with my life Writer/s: DAVID ANTHONY PIRNER, DAVID PIRNER
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc., Wixen Music Publishing
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Comments: 3

  • Lethe from ErisdottirHey, 1992 and 2013? This is 2019 asking you to hold my beer.
  • Johnnys Cousin Steve from Villas, NjThis is an awesome kind of forgotten song. Dave Pirner is an excellent songwriter....definitely top in the 90's. I never cared for the line "black soldier in a white fight"...still love the tune.
  • Nick from Arlington Heights, IlTragically, this song is a lot more poignant now in 2008 then it was when it was released in 1992. There are now far too many Iraq vets who are in wheelchairs with so much left to do with their lives.
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