&gt; it&#x27;s difficult to comprehend any of them when taken literally.<p>&quot;The same crime has a higher price to pay, The judge and jury swear it&#x27;s not in the face.&quot;<p>&quot;Every February washed away&quot;<p>&quot;The bell curve blames the baby&#x27;s DNA, But test scores are how much the parents made&quot;<p>Not exactly metaphorical. I have no doubt there are people who don&#x27;t get it. But there are also a million explanations, not only all around the web but also in the comments section itself. But people keep covering up the explanations by asking what the song is about, which I&#x27;m sure occasionally happens purely innocently, but in aggregate it&#x27;s hard to see as anything but a deliberate attempt to silence black people.<p>Especially once you compare the comments on this song to the comments on, say, Stairway to Heaven, whose lyrics are 10x as &#x27;metaphorical&#x27;.<p>I would say that he perhaps predicts your comment in the song itself:<p>&quot;Only in the past is what they say [...] Say it publicly, and you&#x27;re insane&quot;