Public Enemy - Revolutionary Generation(1990)

[00:04.48] I get down to what it is
[00:05.67] And if it ain't funky (see ya)
[00:08.22] People askin' me what's goin' on
[00:10.02] With my mind
[00:10.87] (Huh) wait a minute
[00:14.66] It's just a matter of race
[00:22.24] Cause a black male's in their face
[00:23.36] Step back for the new jack swing
[00:25.71] On the platter scatter huh
[00:27.36] We got our own thing
[00:29.78] Just jam to let the rhyth run
[00:31.56] Day to day, America eats it's young
[00:33.75] And defeats our women
[00:35.33] There is a gap so wide we all can swim in
[00:37.64] Drown in (uh get down) an get it
[00:39.80] Got it goin' on wit it
[00:42.08] Sister (hey) soul sister
[00:45.04] We goin' be all right
[00:46.39] It takes a man to take a stand
[00:47.43] Understand it takes a
[00:48.58] Woman to make a stronger man
[00:50.21] (As we both get strong)
[00:51.36] They'll call me a crazy Asiatic
[00:53.05] While I'm singin' a song
[00:54.26] Oh my god, oh my lord
[00:55.82] I can't hold back
[00:56.85] But I get exact on a track
[00:57.93] It's an eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth
[00:59.82] Forget about me
[01:00.84] Just set my sister free
[01:02.50] R-e-s-p-e-c-t my siters, not my enemy
[01:07.21] (Cause we'll be stronger together)
[01:08.71] And make the suckers say
[01:09.32] (Damn) this generation
[01:11.53] They don't know what we got goin' is (sound)
[01:22.69] To turn it all around
[01:23.68] To my sisters I communicate
[01:25.17] With the bass and tone
[01:26.05] Thru speakers and the microphone
[01:27.90] Cause I'm tired of America dissin' my sisters
[01:29.93] (For example, like they dissed Tawana)
[01:32.14] And they try to say she's a liar
[01:34.16] My people don't believe it
[01:35.19] But even now they're getting higher
[01:36.98] Of the feeling inspiration
[01:38.40] We must know that in this nation
[01:40.49] Every single generation
[01:42.86] (They teach us how to dis our sisters)
[01:45.14] Stange as you say, I say revolution
[01:46.79] Need for change brings on revolution
[01:48.99] The great book just look see solution
[01:51.03] God chooses who and what for the bruisin'
[01:53.20] There's been no justice for none
[01:54.66] Of my sisters
[01:55.39] Just us been the ones that's been missin' her
[01:57.27] Now we got to protect
[01:58.89] We get together and damn this generation
[02:01.94] I said so to what it is
[02:03.70] Where it is
[02:04.61] She needs a li'l respect
[02:05.39] There it is
[02:06.11] I say she needs a lotta
[02:07.72] Brother from a mother like me has gotta
[02:09.50] Give it up
[02:10.63] Give it now
[02:11.55] And pass it all around
[02:13.61] To my soul (sister)
[03:05.32] They disrespected mama and treated her like dirt
[03:08.52] America took her, reshaped her, raped her
[03:11.25] Nope, it never made the paper
[03:12.92] Beat us, mated us
[03:14.46] Made us attack our woman in black
[03:16.70] So I said sophisticated B, don't be one
[03:19.29] Not to head the warning crack of dawn
[03:21.35] Or is it the dawn of crack?
[03:22.88] Stop the talk they say, but
[03:24.29] We talk and say whats right or wrong
[03:25.85] Some say we wasting time singin' a song
[03:27.64] But why is it that we're many different shades
[03:29.84] Black woman's privacy invaded years and years
[03:32.64] You cannot count my mama's tears
[03:33.94] It's not the past but the future's
[03:35.48] What she fears
[03:36.34] Strong we be strong
[03:37.51] The next generation
[03:39.07] It's what not who we are facin'
[03:40.12] The fingers pointed to us in our direction
[03:42.22] The blind state of mind needs correction
[03:43.94] Word to the mother we tighten connection
[03:46.46] To be a man you need no election
[03:48.67] This generation generates a new attitude
[03:50.79] Sister to you we should not be rude
[03:52.88] So we come together
[03:54.12] And make 'em all say
[03:54.92] Damn this generation
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