Daddy Is White - Suzanne Vega

I am an average white girl who comes from Upper Manhattan

And I am totally white, but I was raised half Latin

This caused me some problems among my friends and my foes

Cause when you look into my face, it’s clear what everybody else knows:

My daddy is white

So I must be white too

When you look into the mirror, what

Comes looking back at you?

If your daddy is white

You must be white too

When you look into the mirror

What comes looking back at you?

I feel it in the city when I take a walk uptown

I feel the tension in the air, I feel it ticking all around

I feel it filling up the sidewalk, in the spaces in between

Between my face and your face in public places where we get seen

My daddy is white

So I must be white too

When you look into the mirror, what

Comes looking back at you?

If your daddy is white

You must be white too

When you look into the mirror

What comes looking back at you?

He called her baby.

She called him boy, and then it started

They were strangers at the bar, and they both ended broken hearted

And it was a conversation, but it ended as a fight

And I can tell you it’s because he was black, and she was white