Average Joes (and Janes).

Why can’t the world be colour-blind?
(Just like you and I)
Because only then, can we set our differences aside
And not lie,
Because we ain’t wise
Even though we’d like to think so
Because we’re just average Joes (and Janes)

And why can’t the world be an endless sea?
With loads and loads of possibilities
And maybe then, we won’t feel this absurdity
Because we will be free, free, free
From this injustice! Freedom eternally
Oh why can’t we see (free, free, free)?
Even though we’d like to think so
Because we’re just average Joes (and Janes).

And oh why can’t we hear that black bird sing?
“Let freedom ring, let freedom ring”
Were the old words of Martin Luther King (Jr.)
Oh why can’t we hear them sing?
Because only then would we be right and not wrong (or left)
Because only then, can we set our differences aside
And not lie,
Because we ain’t wise
Even though we’d like to think so
Because we’re just average Joes (and Janes).