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Revolutionary Generation

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Revolutionary Generation

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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

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