Lift Your Fist-Guru

[00:01.50]Yeah guru huh the roots yeah ome on y'all uh lift your fist [00:10.99]Uhh yeah lift your fist ome on [00:12.70](Uhh)To all my people just lift your fist [00:15.11]Seem like it ain't no peace no justice [00:17.66]How you want it the bullet or the microchip [00:20.16]Either way you got to lift your fist we get it down like this [00:23.21]To all my people ball up your first [00:25.21]Seem like it ain't no peace no justice [00:27.72]How you want it the bullet or the microchip [00:30.25]Either way you got to lift your fist [00:32.68]We livin life close to the edge don't push [00:35.48]But this ain't eighty three and it's not the cold crush [00:38.01]It's kids on the street strapped huffin that kush [00:40.56]They eyein the next cat livin all plush [00:43.21]I guess frustration make a brother do what he must [00:45.41]What's the combination that can make a human erupt [00:47.90]Team leaders gettin mutinied up who couldn't read [00:50.61]The signs thinkin the day and times is [00:53.14]Indeed we blast refuse to kiss a** [00:55.45]Quick fast ready to mash cause of a bugged out past [00:58.14]Swallow the pain follow the mental terrain [01:00.40]It takes a hell of a man nowadays to maintain [01:03.01]Garments bloodstained face bruised and battered [01:05.68]Our eyes reflect the agony of dreams that were shattered [01:08.18]And they love it when we wild out and kill our own [01:10.07]But the greater responsibility yes is still our own [01:13.68]To all my people just lift your fist [01:15.63]Seem like it ain't no peace no justice [01:18.20]How you want it the bullet or the microchip [01:20.73]Either way you got to lift your fist we get it down like this [01:23.77]To all my people ball up your first [01:25.70]Seem like it ain't no peace no justice [01:28.29]How you want it the bullet or the microchip [01:30.84]Either way you got to lift your fist [01:33.53]Uhh worldwide famine ghetto people demand [01:35.82]That somebody do somethin soon and let's examine [01:38.57]The facts behind the violent attacks [01:41.00]Behind the daily gunplay the coc*ine and the crack [01:43.65]Thug season what's the reason for the treason [01:45.89]Everybody's gotta eat some gotta resort to thievin [01:48.78]Take money money make money money money [01:51.42]To all my people just lift your fist [01:53.38]Seem like it ain't no peace no justice [01:56.01]How you want it the bullet or the microchip [01:58.59]Either way you got to lift your fist we get it down like this [02:01.58]To all my people ball up your first [02:03.53]Seem like it ain't no peace no justice [02:06.13]How you want it the bullet or the microchip [02:08.67]Either way you got to lift your fist [02:11.30]Yo from the time they eyes open til the clock strike death [02:13.76]Brothers is stressed walkin around holdin they chest [02:16.16]They got the government surveyin they steps and can't breathe [02:18.86]They dynamitin them projects to smithereens [02:21.17]Money comin but them days too few and far between [02:23.86]You tryin to taste just what the world's offering ya'mean [02:26.56]I seen enough to make a grown man scream [02:28.76]Brothers thirsty and hongry to get that thing [02:31.32]Too many tears of pain too many years of struggle [02:33.94]Too many drops of blood too many problems to juggle [02:36.35]Too few jobs available too few schools equipped [02:38.97]Too few role models just gangsters and pimps [02:41.68]Will you succumb will your heart grow numb [02:43.76]Or will you save the world and use your mind like a gun [02:46.44]I'm the one I turn a stick up kid to a soldier [02:49.28]Me and The Roots word up we takin over [02:51.43]To all my people just lift your fist [02:53.90]Seem like it ain't no peace no justice [02:56.54]How you want it the bullet or the microchip [02:59.13]Either way you got to lift your fist we get it down like this [03:02.13]To all my people ball up your first [03:04.21]Seem like it ain't no peace no justice [03:06.60]How you want it the bullet or the microchip [03:09.76]Eh eh eh eh eh eh eh [03:12.27]To all my people just lift your fist [03:14.20]Seem like it ain't no peace no justice [03:16.70]How you want it the bullet or the microchip [03:19.35]Either way you got to lift your fist we get it down like this [03:22.35]To all my people ball up your first [03:24.38]Seem like it ain't no peace no justice [03:27.93]Eh eh eh eh eh eh eh [03:30.28]