1989 the number another summer (get down)
  Sound of the funky drummer
  Music hittin' your heart cause I know you got sould
  (Brothers and sisters hey)
  Listen if you're missin' y'all
  Swingin' while I'm singin'
  Givin' whatcha gettin'
  Knowin' what I know
  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 got to fight the powers that be
  Lemme hear you say
  Fight the power
    Chorus
    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 lets get down to business
  Mental self defensive fitness
  (Yo) bum rush the show
  You gotta go for what you know
  Make everybody see, in order to fight the powers that be
  Lemme hear you say...
  Fight the Power
    Chorus
    Elvis was a hero to most
  But he never meant ---- to me you see
  Straight up racist that sucker was
  Simple and plain
  Mother---- 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 400 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
  (Get it) lets get this party started right
  Right on, c'mon
  What we got to say
  Power to the people no delay
  To make everybody see
  In order to fight the powers that be
    (Fight the Power)