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Soul power! (Soul power!)
Soul power! (Soul power!)
Soul power! (Soul power!)
Soul power! (Soul power!)
Soul power! (Soul power!)
Soul power! (Soul power!)
Soul power! (Soul power!)
Soul power! (Soul power!)
Soul power! (Soul power!)
Gangsta, gangsta! EarthQuakers
And I'm your Ringo Starr, truth son
Gangsta Brazil! It's a vibration, it's instant, resonate
(I can't believe that it's...)
It's that curl in the afro, that twang on the guitar
That Ravi Shankar, twelve string on the sitar
That Coltrane saxophone blowing like a cigar
Malcolm by the window with his finger on the trigger
The chakras the doctors can't find with X-rays
The pain in your gut is passed down from ex-slaves
The black Buddha within, on the lotus
Sitting on the dock of the bay, getting red with Otis
That soul sonic bam father gold teeth ebonics
James Brown in the pocket, Mississippi gut bucket
Chi overflowing like rum
The vibration of your palm slapping against a goat skin drum
The soul in the folk song, the story in the tat
The old school drop top with bass in the back
It's my natural disposition, I was born like that
It's engraved in my soul like grooves in the wax
I got soul power!
We will shake (We will shake!) the very foundations...
Soul power, it's that real
(That it's real) Soul power, yeah
Rocking that soul power (That power)
Check it out, ayy, I want you to take a walk with me, yo
This that niggertown poem by Al Prentice Carter
The murder that made Martin a martyr
This is that break from the cycle that ended with Carmichael
Up in Lowndes County, Alabama cocking them hammers
It was the white rooster versus them black jungle cats
Made 'em lift up they sheets, take a peek under that
The stench of a rotten system, ill-gotten
And if you listen, you can hear survivors off in the distance
The undeniable spirit of the fire
The old reliable unseen force when you need it that takes you higher
It's the Rhodes keys in the church choir, it's the heat
It's the speakers, the turntables and wires, it's desire
It's the beautiful act that inspires crowds to riot
And non-believers left with they jaws dropped in silence
The difference between philosophical non-violence and black power
It's karma, we coming for ours
(That it's real)
This is the key to the city!
Soul power! (Soul power!)
We will shake (We will shake!) the very
Foundations (The very foundations!)
Of this unjust society (Of this unjust society!)
And put an end (And put an end!) to poverty (To poverty!)
As we walk together (As we walk together!)
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