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It's a song about life, death, love, hate, wealth, poverty, racism... |
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just a few things been runnin' through my head... |
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Listen... |
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We call on you... |
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Listen... |
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Now, we call on you... |
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Be strong... |
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Hear us now!... |
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When you speak of overthrowing those conditions, |
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I think this is what frightens people from the freedom of... |
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The average American, when you simply say the word overthrow, may see this as something very, very bad... |
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I know you're not responsible for his feelings, |
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But, when you say these things, are you threatening someone? |
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Right now... |
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People's power |
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People's power |
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People's... power |
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Detroit in '42... |
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New York in '64... |
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Blinding by a hundred watts... |
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The naked, black, white truth... |
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Destroy the establishment, tear down the face of stupidity and corruption |
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And put up in it's place, an edifice of truth... |
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Unite in struggle for people's power... |
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Unite, unite, unite, truth... |
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Unite in struggle for people's power... |
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We are a part of those concerned with gangs... |
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Meanwhile, uptown, the dj a player... |
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Everybody's so concerned about heroin and marijuana and all that, |
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Until they forget the most dangerousest narcotic that exist's, |
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And that's the narcotic that's injected into the minds of infants... |
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It's called social narcotics... |
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So, you know as well as I do that things are changing... |
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Yeah, change, you know... |
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Meanwhile, uptown, the dj a player... |
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Revolution... |
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Yeah, change, you know... |
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My gift... Make music... |
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So I say you youngster's gotta get a job |
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Work to change the system... |
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Definacy... Equal, justice... |
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...Submission... |
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...Moving on... |
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...The people's power... |
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...Ghetto wack, lining my ears... |
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...My gift... Make music... |
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Change, change, change |
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It's only a matter of time |
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Change, change, change |
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It's only a matter of time |
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Change, change, change |
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It's only a matter of time |
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Change, change, change, change, change, change |
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It's only a matter of time |
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Freedom! (Freedom!)... |
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That's all that life is... |
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The record ends and we must begin again... |
