i ve been around a while i know wrong from right and since a long time ago things been always black and white just like you can t judge a book by the cover we all gotta be careful how we treat one another skin deep skin deep underneath we re all the same skin deep skin deep underneath we re all the same we re all of the same a man in louisiana he never called me by my name he said boy do this and boy do that but i never once complained i knew he had a good heart but he just didn t understand that i needed to be treated just like any other man skin deep skin deep underneath we re all the same skin deep skin deep underneath we re all the same we re all of the same i sat my little child down when he was old enough to know i said i fell in this big wide world you re gonna be all kinda froze i said son it all comes down to just one simple rule that you treat everybody just the way you want them to treat you yeah skin deep skin deep underneath we re all the same skin deep skin deep underneath we re all the same we re all of the same skin deep underneath we re all the same skin deep skin deep underneath we re all the same we re all of the same yeah