We will lie in wood and drawers Built to keep us from the floor And dare not move, till curtain's call Then, we would stand, in crooked lines Hands behind, our blackened spines And dare not speak, till we were told In silence, we would fold Oh, the whitewash, burned our eyes The whitewash, kept us alive And the whitewash, may fade But I will never forget All I wanted was life But instead, got life inside And they shaved off, all of my hair Like Samson, left powerless and bare Oh, the whitewash, burned our eyes The whitewash, kept us ali-ive And the whitewash, may fade But I will never forget No I can never forget Oh, the whitewash, took my sun The whitewash, cover me up And the whitewash, may fade in time But I Can never forget Oh, the whitewash The whitewash The whitewash