If you haven't heard Brad Paisley and LL Cool J's new collaboration---"Accidental Racist" then you're one of the lucky ones. If you still want to read the lyrics then keep reading.

How Paisley and LL Cool J thought they could fix the nation's longtime racial issues is beyond me. I suppose Jay-Z and Bob Dylan were busy.

"Accidental Racist" opens up with Paisley in a Starbucks being "served" by a black employee. In the song Paisley is wearing a shirt with the Confederate flag that ultimately offends the black employee.

The song goes on to compare a do-rag (contrary to popular belief do-rags are not race specific) to a Southern flag (the most visible symbol of white supremacy).

In LL Cool J's verse, the rapper sings, ""If you don't judge my gold chains, I'll forget the iron chains." Really?

Maybe this is LL Cool J's metaphysical attempt at satire. He is touring with Public Enemy this summer. Wonder what Chuck D thinks of "Accidental Racist."

Anyways here are the lyrics, as promised.

"Accidental Racist"

Paisley's verse:

To the man that waited on me at the Starbucks down on Main,
I hope you understand?
When I put on that t-shirt, the only thing I meant to say is I'm a Skynyrd fan?
The red flag on my chest somehow is like the elephant in the corner of the south?
And I just walked him right in the room?
Just a proud rebel son with an 'ol can of worms?
Lookin' like I got a lot to learn but from my point of view

I'm just a white man comin' to you from the southland?
Tryin' to understand what it's like not to be?
I'm proud of where I'm from but not everything we've done?
And it ain't like you and me can re-write history?
Our generation didn't start this nation?
We're still pickin' up the pieces, walkin' on eggshells, fightin' over yesterday?
And caught between southern pride and southern blame

They called it Reconstruction, fixed the buildings, dried some tears?
We're still siftin' through the rubble after a hundred-fifty years?
I try to put myself in your shoes and that's a good place to begin?
But it ain't like I can walk a mile in someone else's skin

'Cause I'm a white man livin' in the southland?
Just like you I'm more than what you see?
I'm proud of where I'm from but not everything we've done?
And it ain't like you and me can re-write history?
Our generation didn't start this nation?
And we're still paying for the mistakes?
That a bunch of folks made long before we came?
And caught between southern pride and southern blame

LL Cool J's verse:

White Man, I wish you understood?
What the world is really like when you're livin' in the hood?
Just because my pants are saggin' doesn't mean I'm up to no good?
You should try to get to know me, I really wish you would?
Now my chains are gold but I'm still misunderstood?
I wasn't there when Sherman's March turned the south into firewood?
I want you to get paid but be a slave I never could?
Feel like a new fangled Django, dodgin' invisible white hoods?
So when I see that white cowboy hat, I'm thinkin' it's not all good?
I guess we're both guilty of judgin' the cover not the book?
I'd love to buy you a beer, conversate and clear the air?
But I see that red flag and I think you wish I wasn't here