Every kind of people

I truly hope that in time this blog might be visited on a regular basis by my students and former students and that somehow, despite their different tastes and personality traits, they all find something here that they can relate to. It is said that "Variety is the spice of life" and I agree, but I also believe that “whether yellow, black or white, each and every man is the same inside”, as the late singer Robert Palmer sang in his 1978 song “Every kinda people”(that’s slang for every kind of people). Yes, I know, it’s a thirty-year-old song, but the lyrics are so meaningful and still so up-to-date! If you don't want to watch the videoclip, at least scroll down to the bottom of the page, look for the song in the playlist and listen to it as you read its lyrics:

Said the fight to make ends meet
Keeps a man upon his feet
Holding down his job
Trying to show he can’t be bought

Ooh it takes every kinda people
To make what life's about, yeah
Every kinda people
To make the world go round

Someone's looking for a lead
In his duty to a king or to a creed
Protecting what he feels is right
Fights against wrong with his life

There's no profit in deceit
Honest men know that
Revenge does not taste sweet
Whether yellow, black or white
Each and every man's the same inside

It takes every kinda people
To make what life's about, yeah
It takes every kinda people
To make the world go round
Doo doo doo......

You know that love's the only goal
That could bring a peace to any soul
Hey and every man's the same
He wants the sunshine in his name

It takes every kinda people
To make what life's about, yeah
It takes every kinda people
To make the world go round
Mmmm, every kinda people
To make what life's about

Let me know your opinion about this song by posting a comment. Thanks in advance!