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Artist/Band: Joe Jackson
Lyrics for Song: Battleground
Lyrics for Album: Beat Crazy [1980]



Black nigger white nigger standing in the dark

Listen to the rhythm of the bass boom

Black nigger takes a hit sending up a spark

In the dark heat



Swaying a little to the bass beat

White nigger takes a hit, takes money out

Says this is what it's all about



Rots your brain, who cares

Black nigger stares, white nigger sighs

I like your music, I like your style

I crack a joke, so why don't you smile?



White nigger dancing out on the floor tonight

The band's not good but the beat seems right

The band's all black and the floor's all white

Clenching fists unite and fight



Rock against racism rules tonight

But in the real world no-one rules

But fists are clenched all right

Down in the underground, out in the playground

The common ground is a battleground



Now you don't have to be black to be a nigger no more

The writing's on the wall

Say black is power, white is flower

Divided we fall and behind the wall



Behind the door, in the dark heat

In the rhythm of the bass beat

Something is wrong

And no one is taking the blame


Album Lyrics: Beat Crazy [1980]


Joe Jackson
"Beat Crazy [1980]"


1. Battleground
2. Crime Don't Pay
3. Fit