Give me liberty or give me death    No truer words have ever been said    Well are you prepared for your very last breath?    Don't you dare start what you cannot finish    So when we face, face the adversary    No longer are we the minority       And when history repeats her hour    The pendulum will swing, swing into power    Though not in vain like our forefathers    Freedom, never had no room for cowards       For in the end, there will be equality    By any means necessary       The ballot or the bullet    The choice is up to you    The ballot or the bullet    Tell me what you gonna do    The sword or the pen    Can be held by the same hand       What's it gonna take to liberate?    An emancipation, a false proclamation?    All these token words that you legislate    Sound a little bit absurd. Hey! And a little too late       When a house is divided, it just will not stand    Once it's decided, a line drawn in the sand       Ah! The ballot or the bullet    The choice is up to you    The ballot or the bullet    Tell me what you gonna do    The sword or the pen    Can be held by the same hand       (Guitar Solo)       The ballot or the bullet    The choice is up to you    The ballot or the bullet    Tell me what you gonna do       The ballot or the bullet    The choice is up to you    The ballot or the bullet    Tell me what you gonna do    The sword or the pen can be    The sword or the pen can be    The sword or the pen can be    The sword or the pen can be    The sword or the pen can be    held, held by the same hand!