Take the Power Back - Live at 86th Street Music Hall, Vancouver, B.C. - April 1993

The classroom's the last room
 That get the truth, yeah
 The classroom's the last room
 That get the truth
 Bring that shit in
 Yeah, check this out y'all
 As I kick it like wicked style
 In the right light, study becomes insight
 But the system that dissed us
 Teaches us to read and write
 So called facts are fraud
 They want us to allege and pledge
 And bow down to their God
 Lost the culture, the culture lost
 Spun our minds and through time
 Ignorance has taken over
 Yo, we gotta take the power back
 Bam, here's the plan, motherfuck Uncle Sam
 Step back, I know who I am
 Raise your ear, I'll drop the style and clear
 It's the beats and the lyrics they fear
 The rage is relentless
 We need a movement with a quickness
 You are the witness of change
 And to counteract we gotta take the power back
 We gotta take the power back
 Come on, come on
 We gotta take the power back
 The present curriculum, I put my fist in 'em
 Eurocentric, every last one of 'em
 See right through the red, white and blue disguise
 With lecture I puncture the structure of lies
 Installed in our minds and attempting to hold us back
 We've got to take it back
 Holes in our spirit causin' tears and fears
 One sided stories for years and years and years
 I'm inferior? Who's inferior?
 Yeah, we need to check the interior of the system
 Who cares about only one culture
 And that is why we gotta take the power back
 We gotta take the power back
 Come on, come on
 We gotta take the power back
 We're gonna break shit down like this
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 Uh, and like this
 Come on
 The teacher stands in front of the class
 But the lesson plan he can't recall
 The student's eyes don't perceive the lies
 Bouncing off every fucking wall
 His composure is well kept
 I guess he fears playing the fool
 Complacent students sit and listen to that
 Bullshit that he'd learned in school
 Europe ain't my rope to swing on
 Can't learn a thing from it, yet I hang from it
 Gotta get it, gotta get it together then
 Like the motherfuckin' weathermen
 To expose and close the doors on those who try
 To strangle and mangle the truth
 'Cause the circle of hatred continues unless we react
 We gotta take the power back
 We gotta take the power back
 Come on, come on
 We gotta take the power back
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 No more lies, no more lies
 No more lies, no more lies
 No more lies, no more lies
 No more lies, no more lies, uh
 Yeah, take it back y'all, take it back
 Uh, take it back, uh, take it back y'all, come on
 Take it back y'all, take it back, uh, take it back
 Uh, take it back y'all, come on, uh, yeah