Man Against Man - Buddy Greene

There’s a fiery cross but it’s not the cross of Christ

And sometimes it smolders and sometimes it rages in the night

And whether you glimpse it or see it glaring it’s a horrible sight

Cause it has absolutely nothing to do with light

And it’s fueled by a sin as ancient as man

And in some places I swear it’s caused a curse in the land

It sends up a stench no holy God could ever stand

And it’s man against man, it’s black and it’s white

It’s man against man, it’s wrong and never right

It’s man against man, it’s Gentile and Jew

And when it’s man against man

Lord God, it’s man against You

It’s been disguised as preference in our rhetoric and prose

Dressed up like something else when underneath like a cancer it grows

And unchecked it breeds corruption beneath deceptive clothes

In a vain attempt to hide what only the truth will expose

It’s bred in our fathers and passed on to their sons

In the priveleged, deprived or the genius, or the simpleton

It can raise it’s ugly head in nearly everyone

And it’s man against man, it’s black and it’s white

It’s man against man, it’s wrong and never right

It’s man against man, it’s Gentile and Jew

And when it’s man against man

Lord God, it’s man against You

I’ve seen it in our churches and I’ve seen it in our schools

And it’s thriving in our neighborhoods and our social party rules

In Mississippi, New York City, in Capetown or Iran

Oh, the colors change but the politics are still man against man

But on a cross of crucifixion 2000 years ago

Blood was shed for the sins of every man and now I know

At the foot of that cross the ground is level and there’s no

Man against man, no black, no white

There’s no man against man

It’s wrong and never right

No man against man, neither Gentile or Jew

Cause when it’s man against man

Lord God, it’s man against You

God it’s man against You