From the recording Mysterious Skin
Lyrics
DIFFERENT FOLK No one sits next to him on the bus He doesn’t get no love He doesn’t get no trust He never gets on when it’s time for school He knows them little fuckers can be so cruel He see’s thing in a different light Laws and logic wrong and right When he speaks to you he doesn’t look you in the eye He sometimes dresses like the cat has died Que la vido Different strokes and different folk What’s the law and what’s the pope? I’m trying to live and I’m trying to cope with the big bad world And the big bad wolf Ostracized and you fears subside You don’t want to look you want to hide The ugly things that make up life You and I together You and I forever You and I for worst or better You and I From the kids in the slums in the city of god To the welfare state and the single mothers All our life are being homogenised Don’t you dare dream or even fantasise Que la vido Different strokes and different folk He says what the law and what it the pope I’m trying to live and I’m trying to cope with the big bad world And the big bad wolf Ostracized and you fears subside You don’t want to look you want to hide The ugly things that make up life You and I together You and I forever You and I for worst or better You and I All the MPs that are living in the closest The vicars and the priests’ with their servant’s on their knees Living in a town with a social disease I’ve got to get out but you pull me back in You can do that but I won’t give in You and I together You and I forever You and I for worst or better You and I