I don't wanna say the wrong thing
I don't wanna be the wrong thing
Where do I belong when the skin don't feel like home?
Tell me when it's safe to be me

Mulatto, mutt, mixed, half-breed
I've heard it all, but which hat fits?
Where do I go to find the ones like this?
They say love is a drug, can I get that fix?
Is it safe to come out after years of tryna pick a side? I'm livin' with doubt
Hard to be an unknown tryna live here with clout
Saw the world fall apart over race in the South

We are denied not only civil rights, but even human rights

Mama raised me with pride
Not saved 'cause of my race, but, which one is mine
'Cause I thought I was adopted till the day I was nine
And that's when I felt like an outsider for the very first time
Folks call me everything but a child of the king
No bubble for my pencil on they S-A-T's
Is he black? Is he a thug? Is he white? Is he rich?
Is he Asian? Is he smart? Is he, what? Oh, he mixed

I don't wanna say the wrong thing (I don't)
I don't wanna be the wrong thing
Where do I belong when the skin don't feel like home?
Tell me when it's safe to be me

If no one can identify me, can they identify with me?
It feels like the truth's a lie when they say that they get me
Ethnically ambiguous, where am I indigenous?
Exotic or hideous, does anyone consider this?
Never ceases to amaze me how people just keep forgettin'
They're not the only ones created in God's image
Unfortunate torture for the kids like me
This oppression still rampant in the land of the free

I don't wanna say the wrong thing, no
I don't wanna be the wrong thing
Where do I belong when the skin don't feel like home?
Tell me when it's safe to be me

Let me be
Don't care what I look like, care what you want me to be
Tryna tell me who I am, but nobody really knows me
I can't breathe
Breakin' all these chains and I'm finally free, oh

I don't wanna say the wrong thing, no
I don't wanna be the wrong thing
Where do I belong when the skin don't feel like home?
Tell me when it's safe to be me
Tell me when it's safe to be me