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)