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You say you hate the shade of face for my father's share crops
My people were slaves before yours invented hip-hop
Apologize but I'm in on the joke
Another brother to scoff at the dancing patterns of white folk
I think I'm fine the way I am
(and yes I chase my milk with ham)
I think I'm fine the way I am
Jesus died a Jew
Pupils painted blue
You haters know it's true
Jesus died a Jew
You say you hate the breadth of my nose for my daddy's earlocks
Shunned before you pierced it and sold it and called it "punk rock"
Apologize for the murder of god
Like Judas the traitor we are both favored and deeply flawed
I think I'm fine the way I am
(although we broke our promised land)
I think I'm fine the way I am
Jesus died a Jew
Pupils painted blue
You haters know it's true
Jesus died a Jew
So I'll let it burn away
Let it burn away
Let it burn away
Let it burn away
My people were slaves before yours invented hip-hop
Apologize but I'm in on the joke
Another brother to scoff at the dancing patterns of white folk
I think I'm fine the way I am
(and yes I chase my milk with ham)
I think I'm fine the way I am
Jesus died a Jew
Pupils painted blue
You haters know it's true
Jesus died a Jew
You say you hate the breadth of my nose for my daddy's earlocks
Shunned before you pierced it and sold it and called it "punk rock"
Apologize for the murder of god
Like Judas the traitor we are both favored and deeply flawed
I think I'm fine the way I am
(although we broke our promised land)
I think I'm fine the way I am
Jesus died a Jew
Pupils painted blue
You haters know it's true
Jesus died a Jew
So I'll let it burn away
Let it burn away
Let it burn away
Let it burn away
Lyrics submitted by inthissilentvoid
Track duration: 02:29
"Died a Jew" as written by Max Bemis
Lyrics © EMI Music Publishing
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i think you're all dumbasses, and the only one who knows what they're talking about is Hwrdmyns
favorite line:
"you say the shade of my face
for my father's sharecrops
my people were slaves, before yours invented hip hop
apologize, but i'm in on the joke
another brother to scoff at the dancing patterns of white folk"
I'm not going to call you a dumb ass cause I'm not like that, what I will say is that both Jews and Africans were enslaved, but there wasn't a mass Holocaust on any African Americans, also Africa doesn't have a huge target on its back from a dangerous and powerful country that thinks it doesn't have a right to exist (like poor Israel). Plenty of people have excuses to complain: American Indians were forced out of their homes and killed by the thousands since before and after slavery was in the country, Muslims or Middle Easterners are all assumed to be terrorists and murderers, hell even white Irish people were all but shunned for half a century because they were thought to be unclean and not worthy to have jobs. Basically the point I'm making is shits in the past stop harping on it, if you can't get past it then you're the one with the problem. I'm Catholic and love this song because I think it's funny and clever and very true and it reminds me of my Jewish friends who are proud they're Jewish, and I'm proud I'm Catholic, who cares?
This is one song that is majorly catchy, but it could easily have been a 4 minute-long rocker. There needs to at least be a second verse before the chorus comes in.
And I really like the "I think I'm fine the way I am" -- it's like the lyrics to Admit It (proud of my life... etc)
I can totally relate to this song because I'm Jewish (though I don't practice the religion) and I've had to put up with so many stupid jokes about it. I think what he's trying to say is NOT that he's better than others, but that he's proud of who he is and you can try to make fun of him but it really doesn't matter because he's proud to be Jewish.
Rather than being prejudiced he's pointing out how dumb it is to be that way.
I can totally relate to this song because I'm Jewish (though I don't practice the religion) and I've had to put up with so many stupid jokes about it. I think what he's trying to say is NOT that he's better than others, but that he's proud of who he is and you can try to make fun of him but it really doesn't matter because he's proud to be Jewish.
Rather than being prejudiced he's pointing out how dumb it is to be that way.
and dude, i think these days, more black people are prejudice against white people then vice versa.
and music has existed for thousands of years. it's human nature. you can't give all the credit for the progression of music to black people. that's just fucking ridiculous.
Max is basically calling out the group of african americans who feel the need to complain that they should be paid for how their ancestors were in-slaved. He also calls them out for making fun of whites for how they can dance.
He also says white christian america cant think they're all perfect when in fact one of their founding fathers (judas) was the first step in the murder of Jesus.
Then in the chorus he agrees that he's not perfect either, and he also calls out christians for portraying jesus as "white america"
In the second verse he calls out white america for first making fun of how Jews look and then they turn around and make the "jewish look" popular and calling it punk rock.