Why? - The Specials

Why did you try to hurt me?

I got to know, know, know

Did you really want to kill me?

Tell me why, tell me why, tell me why

Why do we have to fight?

Why must we fight?

I have to defend myself

From attack last night

I know I am black

You know you are white

I’m proud of my black skin

And you are proud of your white, so

Why did you try to hurt me?

Tell me why, tell me why, tell me why

Did you really want to kill me?

Tell me why, tell me why, tell me why

We don’t need no British Movement

Nor the Ku Klux Klan

Nor the National Front

It makes me an angry man

I just want to live in peace

Why can’t you be the same?

Why should I live in fear?

This fussing and fighting’s insane

With a Nazi salute and a steel capped boot

A Nazi salute and a steel capped boot

You follow like sheep inna wolf clothes

You follow like sheep inna wolf clothes

We chase you out the dance hall, we chase you through the door

We chase you out the dance hall, we chase you through the door

Cos' we can’t take no more of this at all

Cos' we can’t take no more of this at all

With a Nazi salute and a steel capped boot

Tell me why, tell me why, tell me why

You follow like sheep inna wolf clothes

Tell me why, tell me why, tell me why

You’re too scared to make a speech during the light

Without a thousand police protecting your rights

To threaten and abuse, incite or fight

But who will protect me from you in the night?

Why did you try to hurt me?

Tell me why, tell me why, tell me why

Did you really want to kill me

Tell me why, tell me why, tell me why

With a Nazi salute and a steel capped boot

Tell me why, tell me why, tell me why

You follow like sheep inna wolf clothes

Tell me why, tell me why, tell me why