Public Enemy - Revolutionary Generation Lyrics
Shocklee - sadler - ridenhourI get down to what it isAnd if it aint funky (see ya)People askin me whats goin onWith my mind(huh) wait a minuteIts just a matter of raceCause a black males in their faceStep back for the new jack swingOn the platter scatter huhWe got our own thingJust jam to let the rhyth runDay to day, america eats its youngAnd defeats our womenThere is a gap so wide we all can swim inDrown in (uh get down) an get itGot it goin on wit itSister (hey) soul sisterWe goin be all rightIt takes a man to take a standUnderstand it takes aWoman to make a stronger man(as we both get strong)Theyll call me a crazy asiaticWhile Im singin a songOh my god, oh my lordI cant hold backBut I get exact on a trackIts an eye for an eye, tooth for a toothForget about meJust set my sister freeR-e-s-p-e-c-t my siters, not my enemy(cause well be stronger together)And make the suckers say(damn) this generationThey dont know what we got goin is (sound)To turn it all aroundTo my sisters I communicateWith the bass and toneThru speakers and the microphoneCause Im tired of america dissin my sisters(for example, like they dissed tawana)And they try to say shes a liarMy people dont believe itBut even now theyre getting higherOf the feeling inspirationWe must know that in this nationEvery single generation(they teach us how to dis our sisters)Stange as you say, I say revolutionNeed for change brings on revolutionThe great book just look see solutionGod chooses who and what for the bruisinTheres been no justice for noneOf my sistersJust us been the ones thats been missin herNow we got to protectWe get together and damn this generationI said so to what it isWhere it isShe needs a lil respectThere it isI say she needs a lottaBrother from a mother like me has gottaGive it upGive it nowAnd pass it all aroundTo my soul (sister)They disrespected mama and treated her like dirtAmerica took her, reshaped her, raped herNope, it never made the paperBeat us, mated usMade us attack our woman in blackSo I said sophisticated b, dont be oneNot to head the warning crack of dawnOr is it the dawn of crack?Stop the talk they say, butWe talk and say whats right or wrongSome say we wasting time singin a songBut why is it that were many different shadesBlack womans privacy invaded years and yearsYou cannot count my mamas tearsIts not the past but the futuresWhat she fearsStrong we be strongThe next generationIts what not who we are facinThe fingers pointed to us in our directionThe blind state of mind needs correctionWord to the mother we tighten connectionTo be a man you need no electionThis generation generates a new attitudeSister to you we should not be rudeSo we come togetherAnd make em all sayDamn this generation
