Revolutionary Generation-Public Enemy

[ti:Revolutionary Generation] [ar:Public Enemy] [al:Fear Of A Black Planet] [00:03.68]I get down to what it is [00:05.40]And if it ain't funky (see ya) [00:08.01]People askin' me what's goin' on [00:09.84]With my mind [00:11.08](Huh) wait a minute [00:11.90] [00:21.04]It's just a matter of race [00:21.33]Cause a black male's in their face [00:22.97]Step back for the new jack swing [00:25.11]On the platter scatter huh [00:26.52]We got our own thing [00:29.32]Just jam to let the rhythm run [00:31.00]Day to day, America eats it's young [00:33.27]And defeats our women [00:34.79]There is a gap so wide we all can swim in [00:37.12]Drown in (uh get down) an get it [00:40.07]Got it goin' on wit it [00:41.38]Sister (hey) soul sister [00:44.36]We goin' be all right [00:45.61]It takes a man to take a stand [00:47.48]Understand it takes a [00:48.47]Woman to make a stronger man [00:50.14](As we both get strong) [00:51.46]They'll call me a crazy Asiatic [00:52.90]While I'm singin' a song [00:54.47]Oh my god, oh my lord [00:55.74] [00:56.14]I can't hold back [00:56.77]But I get exact on a track [00:57.79]It's an eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth [01:00.46]Forget about me [01:01.38]Just set my sister free [01:02.73]R-e-s-p-e-c-t my sisters, not my enemy [01:06.28](Cause we'll be stronger together) [01:08.09]And make the suckers say [01:08.91](Damn) this generation [01:10.83] [01:19.64]They don't know what we got goin' is (sound) [01:22.15]To turn it all around [01:23.26]To my sisters I communicate [01:24.72]With the bass and tone [01:25.75]Through speakers and the microphone [01:27.44]Cause I'm tired of America dissin' my sisters [01:29.86](For example, like they dissed Tawana) [01:32.01]And they try to say she's a liar [01:33.87]My people don't believe it [01:35.17]But even now they're getting higher [01:36.27]Of the feeling inspiration [01:38.10]We must know that in this nation [01:40.46]Every single generation [01:42.21](They teach us how to dis our sisters) [01:44.38]Strange as you say, I say revolution [01:46.55]Need for change brings on revolution [01:48.82]The great book just look see solution [01:51.11]God chooses who and what for the bruisin' [01:53.12]There's been no justice for none [01:54.81]Of my sisters [01:55.21]Just us been the ones that's been missin' her [01:57.45]Now we got to protect [02:00.21]We get together and damn this generation [02:01.91] [02:02.08]I said so to what it is [02:03.14]Where it is [02:03.63]She needs a lil' respect [02:04.99]There it is [02:05.70]I say she needs a lotta [02:07.55]Brother from a mother like me has gotta [02:09.63]Give it up [02:10.46]Give it now [02:11.48]And pass it all around [02:13.03]To my soul (sister) [02:14.51] [03:04.63]They disrespected mama and treated her like dirt [03:07.45]America took her, reshaped her, raped her [03:10.88]Nope, it never made the paper [03:12.67]Beat us, mated us [03:14.13]Made us attack our woman in black [03:16.37]So I said sophisticated B, don't be one [03:19.01]Not to head the warning crack of dawn [03:21.04]Or is it the dawn of crack? [03:22.42]Stop the talk they say, but [03:23.71]We talk and say what's right or wrong [03:25.47]Some say we wasting time singin' a song [03:27.34]But why is it that we're many different shades [03:29.69]Black woman's privacy invaded years and years [03:31.73]You cannot count my mama's tears [03:33.83]It's not the past but the future's [03:35.34]What she fears [03:36.13]Strong we be strong [03:37.48]The next generation [03:38.68]It's what not who we are facin' [03:40.03]The fingers pointed to us in our direction [03:42.35]The blind state of mind needs correction [03:44.32]Word to the mother we tighten connection [03:46.46]To be a man you need no election [03:48.38]This generation generates a new attitude [03:50.68]Sister to you we should not be rude [03:52.80]So we come together [03:53.94]And make 'em all say [03:55.56]Damn this generation [04:02.33]