Lift Your Fist-Guru

[00:00.000] Guru: [00:01.265] Yeah.. Guru, huh, The Roots [00:06.201] Yeah, c'mon y'all uh, lift your fist [00:09.689] Uhh, yeah, lift your fist c'mon [00:12.116] (Uhh) [00:12.756] Black Thought: [00:12.882] To all my people, just lift your fist [00:14.769] Seem like it ain't no peace, no justice [00:17.267] How you want it, the bullet or the microchip? [00:19.765] Either way you got to lift your fist [00:21.711] We get it down like this [00:22.879] To all my people, ball up your first [00:24.739] Seem like it ain't no peace, no justice [00:27.275] How you want it, the bullet or the microchip? [00:29.879] Either way you got to lift your fist [00:31.871] Yo, c'mon [00:32.849] We livin life close to the edge, don't push [00:35.045] But this ain't eighty-three and it's not the Cold Crush [00:37.592] It's kids on the street strapped, huffin that kush [00:40.231] They eyein the next cat, livin all plush [00:42.550] I guess frustration make a brother do what he must [00:45.028] What's the combination that can make a human erupt [00:47.474] Team leaders gettin mutinied up, who couldn't read [00:50.218] The signs, thinkin the day and times is... [00:53.000] Guru: [00:53.035] Indeed, we blast, refuse to kiss ass [00:55.203] Quick fast, ready to mash cause of a bugged out past [00:57.633] Swallow the pain, follow the mental terrain [01:00.102] It takes a hell of a man, nowadays to maintain [01:02.754] Garments bloodstained, face bruised and battered [01:05.548] Our eyes reflect the agony, of dreams that were shattered [01:07.800] And they love it, when we wild out and kill our own [01:10.373] But the greater responsibility, yes, is still our own [01:12.842] Black Thought: [01:13.319] So all my people, just lift your fist [01:15.272] Seem like it ain't no peace, no justice [01:17.823] How you want it, the bullet or the microchip? [01:20.296] Either way you got to lift your fist [01:22.295] We get it down like this [01:23.406] To all my people, ball up your first [01:25.313] Seem like it ain't no peace, no justice [01:27.831] How you want it, the bullet or the microchip? [01:30.342] Either way you got to lift your fist [01:32.321] Guru: [01:32.784] Uhh, worldwide famine, ghetto people demand [01:35.452] That somebody do somethin soon, and let's examine [01:38.187] The facts, behind the violent attacks [01:40.472] Behind the daily gunplay the ******* and the crack [01:42.900] Thug season - what's the reason for the treason? [01:45.566] Everybody's gotta eat, some gotta resort to thievin [01:48.198] Take money money make money money money [01:50.735] Black Thought: [01:51.192] To all my people, just lift your fist [01:53.086] Seem like it ain't no peace, no justice [01:55.742] How you want it, the bullet or the microchip? [01:58.184] Either way you got to lift your fist [02:00.195] We get it down like this [02:01.372] To all my people, ball up your first [02:03.040] Seem like it ain't no peace, no justice [02:05.662] How you want it, the bullet or the microchip? [02:08.161] Either way you got to lift your fist [02:10.379] Yo - from the time they eyes open til the clock strike death [02:13.349] Brothers is stressed, walkin 'round holdin they chest [02:15.840] They got the government surveyin they steps and can't breathe [02:18.486] They dynamitin them projects to smithereens [02:20.990] Money comin but them days too few and far between [02:23.395] You tryin to taste just what the world's offering, ya'mean? [02:26.563] I seen enough to make a grown man scream [02:28.517] Brothers thirsty and hongry to get that thing [02:30.838] Guru: [02:30.867] Too many tears of pain, too many years of struggle [02:33.342] Too many drops of blood, too many problems to juggle [02:35.879] Too few jobs available, too few schools equipped [02:38.595] Too few role models; just gangsters and pimps [02:41.132] Will you succumb, will your heart grow numb [02:43.500] Or will you save the world, and use your mind like a gun? [02:46.019] I'm the one - I turn a stick-up kid to a soldier [02:48.838] Me and The Roots, word up, we takin over [02:51.224] Black Thought: [02:51.487] To all my people, just lift your fist [02:53.609] Seem like it ain't no peace, no justice [02:56.111] How you want it, the bullet or the microchip? [02:58.610] Either way you got to lift your fist [03:00.589] We get it down like this [03:01.762] To all my people, ball up your first [03:03.716] Word up it ain't no peace, no justice [03:06.101] How you want it, the bullet or the microchip? [03:11.683] To all my people, just lift your fist [03:13.840] How you want it, there's no peace, no justice [03:16.354] From the bullet or even from the microchip? [03:18.747] Either way you got to lift your fist [03:20.852] We get it down like this [03:21.977] Lift your first [03:23.862] Come on my people yo it ain't no peace, no justice [03:26.492] Dig it, uh, uh