Artist: Public Enemy
Album:  Fear Of A Black Planet
Song:   Revolutionary Generation
        - Shocklee - Sadler - Ridenhour -

        I get down to what it is
        And if it ain't funky (see ya)
        People askin' me what's goin' on
        With my mind
        (Huh) wait a minute

        It's just a matter of race
        Cause a black male's in their face
        Step back for the new jack swing
        On the platter scatter huh
        We got our own thing
        Just jam to let the rhyth run
        Day to day, America eats it's young
        And defeats our women
        There is a gap so wide we all can swim in
        Drown in (uh get down) an get it
        Got it goin' on wit it
        Sister (hey) soul sister
        We goin' be all right
        It takes a man to take a stand
        Understand it takes a
        Woman to make a stronger man
        (As we both get strong)
        They'll call me a crazy Asiatic
        While I'm singin' a song
        Oh my god, oh my lord

        I can't hold back
        But I get exact on a track
        It's an eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth
        Forget about me
        Just set my sister free
        R-e-s-p-e-c-t my siters, not my enemy
        (Cause we'll be stronger together)
        And make the suckers say
        (Damn) this generation

        They don't know what we got goin' is (sound)
        To turn it all around
        To my sisters I communicate
        With the bass and tone
        Thru speakers and the microphone
        Cause I'm tired of America dissin' my sisters
        (For example, like they dissed Tawana)
        And they try to say she's a liar
        My people don't believe it
        But even now they're getting higher
        Of the feeling inspiration
        We must know that in this nation
        Every single generation
        (They teach us how to dis our sisters)
        Stange as you say, I say revolution
        Need for change brings on revolution
        The great book just look see solution

        God chooses who and what for the bruisin'
        There's been no justice for none
        Of my sisters
        Just us been the ones that's been missin' her
        Now we got to protect
        We get together and damn this generation

        I said so to what it is
        Where it is
        She needs a li'l respect
        There it is
        I say she needs a lotta
        Brother from a mother like me has gotta
        Give it up
        Give it now
        And pass it all around
        To my soul (sister)

        They disrespected mama and treated her like dirt
        America took her, reshaped her, raped her
        Nope, it never made the paper
        Beat us, mated us
        Made us attack our woman in black
        So I said sophisticated B, don't be one
        Not to head the warning crack of dawn
        Or is it the dawn of crack?
        Stop the talk they say, but
        We talk and say whats right or wrong
        Some say we wasting time singin' a song
        But why is it that we're many different shades
        Black woman's privacy invaded years and years
        You cannot count my mama's tears
        It's not the past but the future's
        What she fears
        Strong we be strong
        The next generation
        It's what not who we are facin'
        The fingers pointed to us in our direction
        The blind state of mind needs correction
        Word to the mother we tighten connection
        To be a man you need no election
        This generation generates a new attitude
        Sister to you we should not be rude
        So we come together
        And make 'em all say
        Damn this generation