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Man Against Man
Buddy Greene
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There is a fiery cross but it's not the cross of Christ
And sometimes it smolders and sometimes it rages in the night
And whether you glimpse it or see it glaring, it's a horrible sight
'Cause it has absolutely nothing to do with light
And it's fueled by a sin as ancient as man
And in some places I swear it's caused a curse in the land
And it sends up a stench no holy God could ever stand
And it's man against man, black and it's white
And it's man against man, it's wrong and never right
Man against man, it's gentile and Jew
And when it's man against man, Lord
God, it's man against You
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It's been disguised as preference in our rhetoric and prose
And dressed up like something else
When underneath like a cancer it grows
And unchecked it breeds corruption beneath deceptive clothes
In a vain attempt to hide what only the truth will expose
And it's bred in our fathers and passed on to their sons
And the privileged deprived of the genius of the simpleton
It can raise its ugly head in nearly everyone
And it's man against man, it's black and it's white
And it's man against man, it's wrong and never right
Oh, man against man, it's gentile and Jew
And when it's man against man, Lord
God, it's man against You
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Well I've seen it in our churches and I've seen it in our schools
And it's thriving in our neighborhoods and our social party rules
In Mississippi, New York City, in Belfast or Sudan
Where the colors change but the politics are still man against man
But on a cross of crucifixion two thousand years ago
Blood was shed for the sins of every man, now I know
At the foot of that cross the ground is level and there's no
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There's no man against man, no black, no white
There's no man against man, it's wrong and never right
No man against man, neither gentile nor Jew
'Cause when it's man against man, Lord
God, it's man against
Man against man, it's black and it's white
It's man against man, it's wrong and never right
Oh, man against man, it's gentile and Jew
And when it's man against man, Lord
God, it's man against You
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Whoa, it's man against You
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