Fight the Power (Extended Version)

Yo, check this out, man

1989, the number, another summer (get down)

Sound of the funky drummer

Music hittin' your heart 'cause I know you got soul

(Brothers and sisters) hey

Listen if you're missin', y'all

Swinging while I'm singing

Giving what ya gettin'

Knowing what I know and

While the black band's sweatin'

And the rhythm rhyme rollin'

Gotta give us what we want

Gotta give us what we need (hey)

Our freedom of speech is freedom or death

We got to fight the powers that be

(Let me hear you say)

Fight the power

(Let me hear you)

Fight the power

(Let me hear you say)

Fight the power

(Let me hear you)

Fight the power

(Let me hear you say)

Fight the power

(Let me hear you)

Fight the power

(Let me hear you say)

Fight the power

We've got to fight the powers that be

As the rhythm's designed to bounce

What counts is that the rhyme's designed to fill your mind

Now that you realized the pride's arrived

We got to pump the stuff that make you tough

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

To revolutionize, make a change, nothin's strange

People, people, we are 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

Don't rush the show

You gotta go for what you know

To make everybody see

In order to fight the powers that be

(Let me hear you say)

Fight the power

(Let me hear you)

Fight the power

(Let me hear you say)

Fight the power

(Let me hear you)

Fight the power

(Let me hear you say)

Fight the power

(Let me hear you)

Fight the power

(Let me hear you say)

Fight the power

We've got to fight the powers that be

Fight the power

(Let me hear you)

(Let me hear you say)

Fight the power

(Let me hear you say)

Fight the power

(Let me hear you say)

Fight the power

(Let me hear you)

Fight the power

(Let me hear you say)

Fight the power

We've got to fight the powers that be

Elvis was a hero to most

But he, Elvis was a hero to most

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 f- him and John Wayne)

'Cause I'm black and I'm proud

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

Most of my heroes don't appear on no stamps

Sample a look back, you looked and find nothin' but rednecks

For 400 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

Power to the people, no delay

Make everybody see

In order to fight the powers that be

Fight the power

Fight the power

Fight the power

Fight the power

We've got to fight the powers that be

What we got to say

Fight the power

What we got to say

Fight the power

(Come on)

What we got to say

Fight the power

What we got to say

Fight the power

(Come on)

What we got to say

Fight the power

What we got to say

Fight the power

(Come on)

What we got to say

Fight the power

What we got to say

Fight the power

(Come on)

What we got to say

Fight the power

What we got to say

Fight the power

(Come on)

What we got to say

Fight the power

What we got to say

Fight the power

(Come on)