Intro:
(Take the power back to us… Take the power back to us… Take the power back to us…)
Hook I:
We gotta take the power back to us We gotta take the power back to us We gonna take the power back to us
Take the world by storm and take the power back to us Ha!
Scratches (Nas, Lord Finesse, Nipsey Hussle, Mac Miller): (If I can’t get it done, I got soldiers with me to cover!)
(But nowadays, shit is different!) (Pass the power to your people!)
(This a work of art, I ain’t talkin’ Mona Lisa)
I.
Power to the people, we the generation
Who will live long enough to undergo the revolution Down to all the sworn enemies of press freedom Killer cops, dictators, you will get yo ass beaten
If it ain't for the best interest of all the people Then it ain't less evil than the laws of the medieval In this reign of terror, an uprising is upheaval
To the land where murder's legal and existence is illegal
They say there's light and you gotta keep the fight But there's a lotta infighting as to what is right While we linin' up at midnight to register and vote
For these public servants posin as progenitors of hope We gotta see past the smoke
We all hafta hold our breaths 'til the air is cleared lest we choke I defeated bronchitis, tuberculosis, pneumonia
I won't stop, even if the air I'm breathing is ammonia I told ya!
Hook I:
We gotta take the power back to us We gotta take the power back to us We gonna take the power back to us
Take the world by storm and take the power back to us Ha!
Scratches (Nas, Lord Finesse, Nipsey Hussle, Mac Miller): (If I can’t get it done, I got soldiers with me to cover!)
(But nowadays, shit is different!) (Pass the power to your people!)
(This a work of art, I ain’t talkin’ Mona Lisa)
II (Kensa):
Hindi pa rin tayo nauubusan ng pag-asa
Kahit na sunod-sunod na malas ang natatanggap sa pagbalasa Tang ina, ngunit 'di ibig sabihin
Na ang buhay ay hindi unti-unting nauubusan ng ibig sabihin
Anong ibig sabihin kung ang galit ay hindi nawawala tuwing gigising? Sasabihin namin ang ibig namin sabihin
Kasi nasa pagkaunawaan ang himig ng pag-ibig
Para sa mga kaibigan dating musikerong Humiwalay na ng landas, binitawan ang pangarap Napilitan sa walang kabuhay-buhay na hanapbuhay
Alang-alang sa mahal sa buhay kasi mahal mabuhay:
Itutuloy lang namin ang pagtataas ng kamao Mga alaala n'yong iniwan, dala-dala ko
Higit pa 'to sa kamatayan Managutan man ako ng hininga, Ipagpatuloy nyong lumaban!
Interlude (Malcolm X):
We’re nonviolent with people who are nonviolent with us
But we are not nonviolent with anyone who is violent with us And what you and I have to let the man know is
We are peaceful people, we are loving people We love everybody who loves us
But we don’t love anybody who doesn’t love us.
Hook II:
We gotta take the power back to us
Take the world by storm, there's no fire that can stop us We gotta take the power back to us
Take the world by storm, there's no fire that can stop us We gotta take the power back to us
Take the world by storm, there's no fire that can stop us We gotta take the power back to us
Take the power back to us
Outro:
All is fair
In love and war Or so it seems…
There's a middle ground
Where all of us would unite and agree Hopes and dreams.
We gotta take... the power back... to enact our hopes and dreams
Hopes and dreams Hopes and dreams Hopes and dreams
