Fight the Power, Pts. 1 & 2 (Part 1 & 2) - The Isley Brothers

[00:01.54]Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
[00:08.25]Let's go...
[00:09.22]Fight the power
[00:10.76]Fight the power
[00:13.40]Fight the power
[00:15.39]You gotta fight the power that be
[00:17.61]Let me hear you say
[00:18.54]Fight the power
[00:19.46]Fight the power
[00:22.36]Fight the power
[00:24.26]You gotta fight the power
[00:25.86]That be
[00:27.92]1**9 the number another summer (Get down)
[00:31.25]Sound of the f*****g drummer
[00:32.58]Music hitting your heart cause I know you got soul (Brothers and sisters)
[00:36.61]Listen if you're missing y'all
[00:37.99]Swinging while I'm singing
[00:39.85]Giving whatcha getting
[00:41.00]Knowing what I know
[00:42.13]While the Black bands sweating
[00:43.86]And the rhythm rhymes rolling
[00:45.80]Got to give us what we want
[00:47.03]Gotta give us what we need
[00:49.31]Our freedom of speech is freedom or death We got to fight the powers that be
[00:53.56]Let me hear you say
[00:54.58]Fight the power
[00:56.04]Fight the power
[00:58.41]Fight the power
[01:00.54]You gotta fight the powers that be
[01:02.19]Let me hear you say
[01:03.83]Fight the power
[01:05.36]Fight the power
[01:07.65]Fight the power
[01:10.14]You gotta fight the powers
[01:11.39]That be
[01:13.02]As the rhythm designed to bounce
[01:14.78]What counts is that the rhymes
[01:16.04]Designed to fill your mind
[01:17.36]Now that you've realized the prides arrived
[01:18.64]We got to pump the stuff to make us tough
[01:21.30]from the heart
[01:21.94]It's a start, a work of art
[01:23.40]To revolutionize make a change nothing's strange
[01:26.12]People, people we are the same
[01:27.93]No we're not the same
[01:30.19]'Cause we don't know the game
[01:31.70]What we need is awareness, we can't get careless
[01:34.90]You say what is this?
[01:36.68]My beloved lets get down to business
[01:38.70]Mental self defensive fitness
[01:40.61]Bum rush the show
[01:42.15]You gotta go for what you know
[01:44.10]Make everybody see, in order to fight the powers that be
[01:48.33]Let me hear you say
[01:48.72]Fight the power
[01:50.23]Fight the power
[01:52.64]Fight the power
[01:54.73]You gotta fight the powers that be
[01:57.10]Let me hear you say
[01:57.92]Fight the power
[01:59.44]Fight the power
[02:01.64]Fight the power
[02:03.84]You gotta fight the powers
[02:05.40]That be
[02:06.64]Elvis was a hero to most
[02:09.04]But he never meant s*it to me you see
[02:11.42]Straight up racist that sucker was
[02:13.22]Simple and plain ********** him and John Wayne
[02:14.64]'Cause I'm Black and I'm proud
[02:16.21]I'm ready and hyped plus I'm amped
[02:17.98]Most of my heroes don't appear on no stamps
[02:20.29]Sample a look back you look and find
[02:22.53]Nothing but rednecks for 400 years if you check
[02:24.67]Man **** the police
[02:26.47]Was a number one jam
[02:27.97](Yeah)What's the owner's saying they can bomb up right here
[02:30.68](F*****g)Let's get this party started right (Right on, come on)
[02:34.17]What we got to say
[02:36.07]Power to the people no delay
[02:38.50]To make everybody see
[02:40.12]In order to fight the powers that be
[02:42.96]Let me hear you say
[02:43.61]Fight the power
[02:45.53]Fight the power
[02:47.71]Fight the power
[02:49.84]You gotta fight the powers that be
[02:52.06]Let me hear you say
[02:52.80]Fight the power
[02:54.29]Fight the power
[02:56.48]Fight the power
[02:58.71]You gotta fight the powers
[03:00.12]That be
[03:00.94]Let me hear you say
[03:01.85]Fight the power
[03:03.40]Fight the power
[03:06.10]Fight the power
[03:07.75]You gotta fight the powers that be
[03:09.87]Let me hear you say
[03:10.74]Fight the power
[03:12.18]Fight the power
[03:16.92]You gotta fight the powers
[03:18.10]That be