The person being spoken to in this song is racist. This whole song is about racism, and why the colour of your skin shouldn’t matter when ultimately no one gets to choose.
You're undecided
You ride a fence but that fence divides
No side is still a side
A look in your eyes says I hold myself above you
You can't see through my skin
Hey, don't think that I ain't counting all the things you do
I'll hold a floodlamp to you and burn you in your awful truth
Born without a choice of race
Held to blame and put in place
See through skin and look at all that lies within
I know that this can't cure it but if it bends and ear then hear it
You, watch what you do
You've gotta unlearn it
It's a sickness that keeps returning
You need open heart
Enough of your joking
You're gonna wind up choking
Some words still can kill
Hey, what kind of friend would understand a joke
Could stand a joke so cruel?
Hey, color's just another number tattooed with a blunt old tool
Seethruskin was written by Blake Schwarzenbach & Chris Bauermeister & Adam Pfahler.
Seethruskin was produced by Jawbreaker & Richard Andrews.