Take The Power Back

[Intro]
D5
                   D5
Bring that shit in!  Uggh!

[Interlude]
Yeah,
the movement's in motion with mass militant poetry
Now check this out... uggh!

[Verse 1]
       D5
In the right light,
                C5
study becomes insight
               D5
But the system that dissed us
                   C5
Teaches us to read and write
         D5
So called  facts are fraud
          C5           D5
They want us to allege and pledge
And bow down to their God
                         C5
Lost the culture, the culture lost
D5                          C5    D5
  Spun our minds and through  time  Ignorance has taken
 C5
over
D5
Yo, we gotta take the power back!

[Verse 2]
D5                    C5
  Bam! Here's the plan
             D5
Motherfuck Uncle Sam
                        C5
Step back, I know who I am
     D5
Raise  up your ear,
                    C5
I'll drop the style and clear
D5
It's the beats and the lyrics they fear
                      C5
The rage is relentless
   D5                              C5
We need a movement with a quickness
       D5                                 C5
You are  the witness of change And to coun
teract
D5
  We gotta take the power back

[Chorus]
D5 D7(#9) D5 C5 C#5 D5
we gotta take the power back
D5 D7(#9) D5 C5 C#5 D5
Come on, come on!
D5 D7(#9) D5 C5 C#5 D5
We gotta take the power back

[Verse 3]
D5 D7(#9) D5 C5    D5
               The present curriculum
              C5
I put my fist in 'em
D5                            C5
Eurocentric every last one of 'em
         D5
See right  through the red,
                       C5
white and blue disguise
            D5
With lecture  I puncture the structure of lies
Installed in our minds and attempting
        C5
To hold us back
D5                         C5
  We've got to take it back
      D5                                   C5
Holes in our spirit causin' tears and fears
   D5
Onesided stories for years and years and years
                        C5
I'm inferior? Who's inferior?
D5                               C5
Yeah, we need to check the interior
         D5                                C5
Of the system that cares about only one culture
        D5
And that  is why
We gotta take the power back

[Chorus]
D5 D7(#9) D5 C5 C#5 D5
we gotta take the power back
D5 D7(#9) D5 C5 C#5 D5
Come on, come on!
D5 D7(#9) D5 C5 C#5 D5
We gotta take the power back
D5 D7(#9) D5 C5

[Interlude]
D5
Hey yo check, we're gonna have to break it,
break it,
break it down
     D5
Awww shit!

[Solo]
Uggh!

[Interlude]
D5 C#5 C5 F5 G5 C5 D5 C#5 C5 F5 G5 C5
D5 C#5 C5 F5 G5 C5 D5 C#5 C5      F5          G5    C5  D5
                            Bring it back the other way!
C#5 C5 F5 G5 C5 D5 C#5 C5 F5 G5
C5    D5
  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
The complacent students sit and listen to some of that
Bullshit that he learned in school

[Verse 4]
D5
Europe ain't my rope to swing on
Can't learn a thing from it
Yet we 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

[Chorus]
D5 D7(#9) D5 C5 C#5 D5
we gotta take the power back
D5 D7(#9) D5 C5 C#5 D5
Come on, come on!
D5 D7(#9) D5 C5 C#5 D5
We gotta take the power back
D5 D7(#9) D5 C5

[Bridge]
C F C F
C F C F
C
No more lies
F
No more lies
C
No more lies
F
No more lies
C
No more lies
F
No more lies
C
No more lies
F
No more lies

[Outro]
D5   C#5 C5 D5 C#5 C5
Uggh!
D5 C#5 C5 C#5
          Yeah!
D5 C#5 C5 D5 C#5 C5
D5 C#5 C5 C#5     D5   C#5  C5
          Take it back y'all
        D5     C#5     C5
Take it back, atake it back
         D5   C#5   C5
Atake it back y'all,  come on!
C#5     D5   C#5  C5
Take it back y'all
        D5     C#5     C5
Take it back, atake it back
         D5   C#5   C5
Atake it back y'all,  come on!
C#5
Uggh!
D5 C#5 C5 D5 C#5 C5
D5 C#5 C5 C#5
          Yeah!
D5 C#5 C5 D5 C#5 C5 D5 C#5 C5 C#5 D7(#9)