Fight The Power

Yet, our best trained, best educated, best equipped

Best prepared troops refuse to fight

Matter of fact, it's safe to say that they would rather switch

Than fight

1989

'89 the number, another summer

Get down

Sound of the funky drummer

Music hitting your heart 'cause I know you got soul

Brothers and sisters

Hey

Listen if you're missing, y'all

Swinging while I'm singing, giving whatcha getting

Hey

Knowing what I knowing while the black band's sweating

And the rhythm rhyme

Rolling

Gotta give us what we want (Uh)

Gotta give us what we need (Hey)

Our freedom of speech is freedom of death

We got to fight the powers that be (Lemme hear you say)

Fight the power

Fight the power (Lemme hear you say)

Fight the power

Fight the power (Lemme hear you say)

Fight the power

Fight the power (Lemme hear you say)

Fight the power

We got to fight the powers that be

As the rhythm's designed to bounce

What counts is that the rhymes designed to fill your mind

Now that you realize the pride's arrived

We got to pump the stuff to make you tough

From the heart, it's a start, a work of art

To revolutionize, make a change, nothing's strange

People, people

We all the same

No, we're not the same 'cause we don't know the game

What we need is awareness, we can't get careless

You say, what is this?

My beloved, let's get down to business

Mental self-defensive fitness

Bum rush the show

You got to go for what you know

To make everybody

See

In order to

Fight the powers that be

Fight the power

Fight the power (Lemme hear you say)

Fight the power

Fight the power (Lemme hear you say)

Fight the power

Fight the power (Lemme hear you say)

Fight the power

We gotta fight the powers that be

Fight the power (Lemme hear you say)

Fight the power

Fight the power (Lemme hear you say)

Fight the power

Fight the power (Lemme hear you say)

Fight the power

We gotta fight the powers that be

Elvis was a hero to most, but he, Elvis was a hero to most (Yeah)

Elvis was a hero to most, but he never meant **** to me

As he's straight out racist, the sucker was simple and plain

Mother **** him and John Wayne

'Cause I'm black and I'm proud

I'm ready, I'm hyped, plus I'm amped

Most of my heroes don't appear on no stamp

Sample a look back, you look and find nothing

But rednecks for four hundred years, if you check

Don't Worry, Be Happy

Was a number one

Jam

Damn, if I say it, you can slap me

Right here

Get it

Let's get this party started right

Right on

Come on

What we got to say? (Yeah)

Power to the people

No delay

Make everybody see in order to

Fight the powers that be

Fight the power (Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, y'all)

Fight the power (Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, y'all)

Fight the power (Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, y'all)

Fight the power (Yes, yes)

We gotta fight the powers that be

What we got to say? (Yeah)

Fight the power

What we got to say? (Yeah)

Fight the power

Come on

What we got to say? (Yeah)

Fight the power

What we got to say? (Yeah)

Fight the power

Come on

Yo, check this out, man

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