Revolutionary Generation - Public Enemy

People askin' me what’s goin' on my mind

Huh, (Hey!)

Wait a minute

«The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its woman…»

Just a matter of race

Cause a black male’s in their face

Step back for the new jack swing

On the platter, scatter, huh

(We got our own thing)

Yes, just jam, let the rhythm run (Boy!)

Day to day, America eats its young

And defeats our women

There is a gap so wide, we all can swim in

Drown in (Uh, get down!) and get it

Got it goin' on with it

Sister (hey) soul sister, we goin' be all right

It takes a man to take a stand

Understand it takes a woman to make a stronger man

(As we both get strong)

They’ll call me a crazy Asiatic while I’m singin' a song

(Oh, oh!) Oh my God, oh my lord, I can’t hold back

So I get exact on a track

It’s an eye for eye, tooth for tooth

Forget about me, just set my sister free (Sisters!)

My sister’s not my enemy

Cause we’ll be stronger together to make them all say

Damn!

(This generation!)

(I don’t know what this world’s coming to!)

They don’t know what we got goin' is (sound)

(See you!)To turn it all around

To my sisters I communicate with the bass and tone

Thru speakers and the microphone

Cause I’m tired of America dissin' my sisters

(For example, like they dissed Tawana)

And they try to say that she’s a liar

My people don’t believe it, but even now they’re getting higher

Off the feeling, inspiration

We must know that in this nation

Every single generation

(They teach us how to diss our sisters)

Strange as you say, I say «revolution»

Need for change brings a revolution

The great book, look see solution

God chooses what and who for the bruisin'

There’s been no justice for none of my sisters

Just us been the one that’s been missin' her

Now we got to protect

To get together and damn!

(This generation)

I said so to what it is

Where it is, she needs a lil' respect (There it is)

I would say she needs a lotta

Brother from a mother like me has gotta

Give it up (Give it now)

And pass it all around to my soul sister

They disrespected mama and treated her like dirt

America took her, reshaped her, raped her

No, it never made the paper

Beat us, mated us

Made us attack our woman in black

So I said «sophisticated B» (Don't be one!)

Not to heed the warning crack of dawn

Or is it the dawn of crack?

(Uh oh)

Stop the talk they say, but we talk and say whats right or wrong

Some say we wasting time singing a song

But why is it that we’re many different shades

Black woman’s privacy invaded years and years

You cannot count my mama’s tears

It’s not the past, the future’s what she fears

Strong, we be strong, the next generation

It’s what, not who, we’re facin'

The fingers pointed to us in our direction

The blind state of mind needs correction

Word to the mother, we tighten connection

To be a man, you need no election

This generation generates a new attitude (Yeah!)

Sister to you we should not be rude

So we come together

And make 'em all say 'damn'!

(This generation!)