Your Racist Friend - They Might Be Giants

If you have a racist friend Now is the time, now is the time for your friendship to end Be it your sister Be it your brother Be it your cousin or your, uncle or your lover If you have a racist friend Now is the time, now is the time for your friendship to end Be it your best friend Or any other Is it your husband or your father or your mother? Tell them to change their views Or change their friends Now is the time, now is the time, for your friendship to end So if you know a racist who thinks he is your friend Now is the time, now is the time for your friendship to end Call yourself my friend? Now is the time to make up your mind, don't try to pretend Be it your sister Be it your brother Be it your cousin or your uncle or your lover So if you are a racist Our friendship has got to end And if your friends are racists don't pretend to be my friend So if you have a racist friend Now is the time, now is the time for our friendship to end GOODBYE

It had been going so well And then I broke my eggshell And entered the world as a brontosaurus Brontosaurus, brontosaurus Here's my entire autobiography, I was Skinny at first, then I got thick, and then back to Being skinny again like a brontosaurus Like a brontosaurus Life was devoid of purpose And so I joined the circus Somehow, they found it easy to ignore us People found it easy to ignore this Brontosaurus, brontosaurus You want to leave an impression You want to express an emotion You crave some attention And for this transgression, you'll be repaid when You fall and you fail and sink into depression It was as dark as Get Out I went and stuck my neck out Wearing an expression of optimism Optimism and bad vision Do you think this tale has gone on for too long? Join the chorus, you can join the chorus Can't cut it as an artist Maybe I'm too sensitive Who would have believed skin could be so porous? Brontosaurus skin can be so porous Brontosaurus, brontosaurus