Artist: Five Fingers of Funk
Album:  Slap Me Five
Song:   Rise
                                      
                Speak upon an issue strain your brain tissue
   But you don't raise your voice 'cause you're afraid someone will diss
                                    you
          Words are needing saying so you'd better say them quick
            'Cause second lady Tipper's gonna zip a fucking lip
                                      
   And what are you going to do when Uncle Scam has got your tongue-tied
      I don't waste a word 'cause I know well that more than one died
     To get across the thought the point the words we take for granted
         But you live in the U.S. Tianamen Square's another planet
                                      
                  Injustice anywhere threatens my security
              'Cause I'm no shining example of a racial purity
             Mr. David Duke is not a fluke or threat or promise
         He's a mighty voting block to keep the real humans honest
                                      
            You've got to get up stand up be conscious every day
        Cast your vote in the ballots plus the dollars that you pay
        If St. Ids's supplies the sorrow then it's time to get wise
                Cast out the bottle open your eyes and rise
                                      
                                    Rise
                                      
         From the center of my being I'm seeing a growing movement
     In my youth I was seeking truth where as now a social improvement
                Generation X has got to flex on politicians
      When they're on a power mission and money makes their decisions
                                      
             Hypocrisy has got to be the root of this democracy
               It'd mean a lot to me to see a Mabon lobotomy
             All discrimination contradicts our father's nation
    Give us your sick and tired and hungry unless they're sick and tired
                                and Haitian
                                      
         Because we hate them foreigners and imports but then again
            We never seemed too fond of our own Native Americans
             Ethnic cleansing we say is something we're against
         But it's called domestic policy on this side of the fence
                                      
       We're willing to step in and get in and push Iraqis off of you
             It's just too bad they've got no oil out in Bosnia
     We're willing to make a move but it depends on who's attacking you
      'Cause damn we still have a lot of money tied up in South Africa
                                      
        I'd look in the paper but I can't see through all the smoke
             Everyone's complaining but not registered to vote
            It takes a lot of effort in the nineties to survive
             Give it up for revolution if you can't compromise
                                      
                                    Rise
                                      
               Come down all youth when me say open your eyes
                   Lick a shot if you know you must rise
               Come down all youth when me say open your eyes
             Give it up for revolution if you can't compromise
                                      
               Come down all youth when me say open your eyes
                   Lick a shot if you know you must rise
               Come down all youth when me say open your eyes