"Fight The Power" Lyrics – Public Enemy

“Fight The Power”


1989 the number another summer, get down

Sound of the funky drummer

Music hittin? your heart, ’cause I know you got soul

Brothers and sisters


Listen if you’re missin? why?all

Swingin? while I’m singin?

Givin? whatcha gettin?

Knowin? what I know and


While the black bands sweatin?

And the rhythm rhymes rollin?

Got to give us what we want

Gotta give us what we need


Our freedom of speech is freedom or death

We’ve got to fight the powers that be


Lemme hear you say

Fight the power

Lemme hear you say

Fight the power


Lemme hear you say

Fight the power

Lemme hear you say

Fight the power


Lemme hear you say

Fight the power

Lemme hear you say

Fight the power

We’ve got to fight the powers that be


As the rhythm designed to bounce

What counts is that the rhymes designed to fill your mind

Now that you’ve realized the prides arrived

We got to pump the stuff to make us tough


From the heart, it?s a start, a work of art

To revolutionize, make a change, nothin?s strange

People, people, we are the same

No, we’re not the same, ’cause we don’t know the game


What we need is awareness, we can’t get careless

You say what is this?

My beloved, let’s get down to business

Mental self defensive fitness


Yo, bum rush the show

You gotta go for what you know

To make everybody see

In order to fight the powers that be


Lemme hear you say

Fight the power

Lemme hear you

Fight the power


Lemme hear you say

Fight the power

Lemme hear you

Fight the power


Lemme hear you say

Fight the power

Lemme hear you

Fight the power


Lemme hear you say

Fight the power

We’ve got to fight the powers that be


Lemme hear you say

Fight the power

Lemme hear you

Lemme hear you say

Fight the power


Lemme hear you say

Fight the power

Lemme hear you say

Fight the power


Lemme hear you

Fight the power

Lemme hear you say

Fight the power

We’ve got to fight the powers that be


Elvis was a hero to most

But he never meant shit to me you see

Straight up racist that sucker was

Simple and plain


Mother fuck him and John Wayne

‘Cause I’m black and I’m proud

I’m ready and hyped plus I’m amped

Most of my heroes don’t appear on no stamps


Sample a look back you look and find

Nothing but rednecks for four hundred years if you check

Don’t worry be happy was a number one jam

Damn, if I say it you can slap me right here


Let’s get this party started right

Right on, c’mon, what we got to say

Power to the people, no delay

Make everybody see in order to fight the powers that be


Fight the power

Fight the power

Fight the power

Fight the power

We’ve got to fight the powers that be