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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah |
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Let's go... |
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Fight the power |
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Fight the power |
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Fight the power |
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You gotta fight the power that be |
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Let me hear you say |
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Fight the power |
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Fight the power |
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Fight the power |
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You gotta fight the power |
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That be |
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1989 the number another summer (Get down) |
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Sound of the fucking drummer |
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Music hitting your heart cause I know you got soul (Brothers and sisters) |
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Listen if you're missing y'all |
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Swinging while I'm singing |
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Giving whatcha getting |
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Knowing what I know |
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While the Black bands sweating |
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And the rhythm rhymes rolling |
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Got to give us what we want |
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Gotta give us what we need |
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Our freedom of speech is freedom or death We got to fight the powers that be |
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Let me hear you say |
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Fight the power |
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Fight the power |
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Fight the power |
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You gotta fight the powers that be |
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Let me hear you say |
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Fight the power |
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Fight the power |
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Fight the power |
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You gotta fight the powers |
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That be |
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As the rhythm designed to bounce |
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What counts is that the rhymes |
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Designed to fill your mind |
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Now that you've realized the prides arrived |
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We got to pump the stuff to make us tough |
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from the heart |
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It's a start, a work of art |
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To revolutionize make a change nothing's strange |
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People, people we are the same |
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No we're not the same |
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'Cause we don't know the game |
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What we need is awareness, we can't get careless |
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You say what is this? |
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My beloved lets get down to business |
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Mental self defensive fitness |
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Bum rush the show |
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You gotta go for what you know |
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Make everybody see, in order to fight the powers that be |
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Let me hear you say |
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Fight the power |
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Fight the power |
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Fight the power |
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You gotta fight the powers that be |
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Let me hear you say |
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Fight the power |
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Fight the power |
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Fight the power |
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You gotta fight the powers |
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That be |
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Elvis was a hero to most |
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But he never meant shit to me you see |
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Straight up racist that sucker was |
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Simple and plain Motherfuck him and John Wayne |
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'Cause I'm Black and I'm proud |
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I'm ready and hyped plus I'm amped |
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Most of my heroes don't appear on no stamps |
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Sample a look back you look and find |
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Nothing but rednecks for 400 years if you check |
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Man fuck the police |
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Was a number one jam |
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(Yeah)What's the owner's saying they can bomb up right here |
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(Fucking)Let's get this party started right (Right on, come on) |
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What we got to say |
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Power to the people no delay |
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To make everybody see |
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In order to fight the powers that be |
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Let me hear you say |
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Fight the power |
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Fight the power |
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Fight the power |
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You gotta fight the powers that be |
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Let me hear you say |
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Fight the power |
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Fight the power |
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Fight the power |
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You gotta fight the powers |
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That be |
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Let me hear you say |
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Fight the power |
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Fight the power |
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Fight the power |
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You gotta fight the powers that be |
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Let me hear you say |
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Fight the power |
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Fight the power |
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Fight the power |
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You gotta fight the powers |
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That be |