Various Artists Fight the Power lyrics

1989, the number, another summer
Get down, sound of the funky drummer
Music hittin' your heart
'Cause I know you got soul
Brothers an' sisters

Listen if you're missin' y'all
Swingin' while I'm singin'
Givin' whatcha gettin'
Knowin' what I knowin'
While the black bands sweatin'
An' the rhythm rhymes rollin'

Got to give us what we want
Gotta give us what we need
Our freedom of speech is freedom or death
We got to fight the powers that be

Fight the power, fight the power
Fight the power, fight the power
Fight the power, fight the power
Fight the power
We got to fight the powers that be

As the rhythm designed to bounce
What counts is that the rhymes
Designed to fill your mind
Now that you've realized the prides arrived
We got to pump the stuff to make us 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

Bum rush the show
You gotta go for what you know
Make everybody see

In order to fight the powers that be

Fight the power, fight the power
Fight the power, fight the power
Fight the power, fight the power
Fight the power
We got to fight the powers that be

Fight the power, fight the power
Fight the power, fight the power
Fight the power, fight the power
Fight the power
We got to fight the powers that be

Elvis was a hero to most
But he never meant shit to me, you see
Straight up racist, that sucker was
Simple an' plain
Motherfuck him an' John Wayne

'Cause I'm black an' I'm proud
I'm ready an' hyped, plus I'm amped
Most of my heroes don't appear on no stamps
Sample a look back, you look an' 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, c'mon

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 got to fight the powers that be