Fight the Power - Barenaked Ladies

Get tough now

Come away for the S

The S one W

Brothers and sisters

Come away for the S

The S one W

On time cause he busta rhymes a hard rhymer

On time cause he busta rhymes a hard rhymer

It’s the flavor, it’s the flavor, it’s the flavor

Life saver

It’s the flavor, it’s the flavor, it’s the flavor

Life saver

Get back cause he whacks the tracks terminator

Get back cause he whacks the tracks terminator

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

Swingin' while I’m singin'

Givin' whatcha gettin'

Knowin' what I know

While the Black bands sweatin'

And 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

Lemme hear you say

Fight the power

Lemme hear you say

Fight the power

Lemme hear you say

Fight the power

Lemme hear you say

Fight the power

We’ve 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 lets get down to business

Mental self defensive fitness

(Yo) bum rush the show

You gotta go for what you know

Make everybody see, in order to fight the powers that be

Lemme hear you say…

Fight the Power

Lemme hear you say

Fight the power

Lemme hear you say

Fight the power

Lemme hear you say

Fight the power

Lemme hear you say

Fight the power

We’ve got to fight the powers that be

Elvis was a hero to most

Buddy Elvis was a hero to most

Buddy Ebsen was a hero to most

Buddy Rich was a hero to most

Buddy Hackett was a hero to most

Nutty Buddy was a hero to most

But he never meant shit to me you

See I’m straight up racist that sucker was

Simple and plain

____________ and John Wayne

Cause I’m Black and I’m proud

I’m ready and hyped plus I’m amped

Most of my heroes don’t appear on no stamps

Sample a look back you look and find

Nothing 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) lets get this party started right

Right on, c’mon

What we got to say

Power to the people no delay

To make everybody see

In order to fight the powers that be