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What if your name were John or other than John?
What if your name were Mary or other than Mary?
Would you feel the same way you do?
Would you sacrifice a thing or two?
What if your name were John or other than John?

What if your eyes were blue or other than blue?
What if your hair were black or other than black?
Would you change the color to disguise,
Feelings or likes you may carry inside?
What if your hair were black or other than black?

What if your name for God was other than God?
What if my name for God was other than God?
Would you hurt me just to prove you're right?
Would you kill my kind for holy rights?
What if my name for God was other than God?

What if your skin were gray or other than gray?
What if my skin were green or other than green?
Would I be a threat to all your kind?
Would we find peace in being color blind?
What if your skin were gray or other than gray?

What if a high-rise were home or other than home?
What if the streets were home or other than home?
Would you feel the need to Balkanize?
Would your notions get to galvanize?
What if the streets were home or other than home?

What if your eyes were blue?
What if your skin were gray?
What if we had no God to pray to today?
What if the streets were home?
What if your lies were true to me?
And happy times too blue to see?
Would you still be a friend to me?
What if your name were John . . . or other than John?