| It’s a song about life, death, love, hate, wealth, poverty, racism…
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| Just a few things been running through my head…
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| Listen… We call on you… Listen… Now, we call on you…
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| Be strong… 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
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| 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… People’s power, People’s power… People’s… power
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| Detroit in '42… New York in '64…
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| Blinding by a hundred watts… The naked, black, white truth…
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| Destroy the establishment
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| 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… 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… Revolution…
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| Yeah, change, you know… 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… Submission…
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| …Moving on… The people’s power…
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| …Ghetto wack, lining my ears… My gift… Make music…
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| Change, change, change, it’s only a matter of time
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| Change, change, change, it’s only a matter of time
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| Change, change, change, it’s only a matter of time
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| Change, change, change, change… It’s only a matter of time
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| Freedom! |
| (Freedom!)… That’s all that life is…
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| The record ends and we must begin again… |