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Rhythm 10.0
Melody 10.0
Instruments 10.0
Lyrics 10.0
Vocal 10.0
This song has been reviewed 2 times. Overall score for this song, 10.0.
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Hootie & The Blowfish - Drowning Lyrics

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TitleDrowning
ArtistHootie & The Blowfish
AlbumCracked Rear View (1994) , Track 7
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Song lyrics
Trouble with the world is we're too busy to think about it, all right
Why is there a rebel flag hanging from the state house walls?
Tired of hearin' this shit about heritage not hate
Time to make the world a better place

Why must we hate one another?
Well no matter what we gotta live together
Just that you don't look like me, tell me what do you see
When we pass on the street what do you wanna see

P.E.'s coming is all I gotta say
Wanna turn and run away
They're just telling you how they see it
Right or wrong they don't care, you wish that they would quit

chorus:
Drowning in a sea of tears
Hatred trying to hide your fears
Living only for yourself
Hating everybody else
Cause they don't look like you

Nanci singing it's a hard life wherever you go
About some fat racist living in Chicago
Trying to teach his kids to hate everyone
Well tell me why is that something you wanna teach your son?

Why must we hate one another?
When the people in the church, they tell me you're my brother
You don't walk like me, ... you don't talk like me, saying
Go back to Africa, I just don't understand

(chorus)

I'm trying to be someone that he could look up to, but
When I walk down the street, tell me what do you see
I'm a man, I'm a man, I'm a man
No I'm not like you
Why do you hate me so
I don't know, I don't know, I don't know
Hating everybody else cause they don't look like you
lyrics submitted by Lindsey P




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11-02-2006 23:07longliveACDC is offline longliveACDC 

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Ive always loved this song. Only today did I actually listen closerr to the lyrics and I saw the true glory of this whole band!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


"[b]" GETS AN A+ IN MY BOOK!!!!!!!
17-10-2006 23:43noteventhetrees is offline noteventhetrees 

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Hootie and the Blowfish has been my favorite band since Cracked Rear View came out, and this song is my absolute favorite. It's STILL my favorite, even after all of these years. The lyrics in this song are just so powerful. I liked the song to begin with, then I listened to the lyrics even more closely and just found it so moving. They are amazing song writers, and Darius has such emotion in his voice when he sings this song. I actually wrote a paper about this song in college for an educational diversity class.

Bottom line... AMAZING song, by an even more amazing band!!!


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