[00:00.000] 作词 : Carlton Ridenhour/Eric Sadler/Keith Shocklee
[00:01.000] 作曲 : Carlton Ridenhour/Eric Sadler/Keith Shocklee
[00:03.68]I get down to what it is
[00:05.40]And if it ain't funky （see ya）
[00:08.01]People askin' me what's goin' on
[00:09.84]With my mind
[00:11.08]（Huh） wait a minute
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[00:21.04]It's just a matter of race
[00:21.33]Cause a black male's in their face
[00:22.97]Step back for the new jack swing
[00:25.11]On the platter scatter huh
[00:26.52]We got our own thing
[00:29.32]Just jam to let the rhythm run
[00:31.00]Day to day, America eats it's young
[00:33.27]And defeats our women
[00:34.79]There is a gap so wide we all can swim in
[00:37.12]Drown in （uh get down） an get it
[00:40.07]Got it goin' on wit it
[00:41.38]Sister （hey） soul sister
[00:44.36]We goin' be all right
[00:45.61]It takes a man to take a stand
[00:47.48]Understand it takes a
[00:48.47]Woman to make a stronger man
[00:50.14]（As we both get strong）
[00:51.46]They'll call me a crazy Asiatic
[00:52.90]While I'm singin' a song
[00:54.47]Oh my god, oh my lord
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[00:56.14]I can't hold back
[00:56.77]But I get exact on a track
[00:57.79]It's an eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth
[01:00.46]Forget about me
[01:01.38]Just set my sister free
[01:02.73]R-e-s-p-e-c-t my sisters, not my enemy
[01:06.28]（Cause we'll be stronger together）
[01:08.09]And make the suckers say
[01:08.91]（Damn） this generation
[01:10.83]
[01:19.64]They don't know what we got goin' is （sound）
[01:22.15]To turn it all around
[01:23.26]To my sisters I communicate
[01:24.72]With the bass and tone
[01:25.75]through speakers and the microphone
[01:27.44]Cause I'm tired of America dissin' my sisters
[01:29.86]（For example, like they dissed Tawana）
[01:32.01]And they try to say she's a liar
[01:33.87]My people don't believe it
[01:35.17]But even now they're getting higher
[01:36.27]Of the feeling inspiration
[01:38.10]We must know that in this nation
[01:40.46]Every single generation
[01:42.21]（They teach us how to dis our sisters）
[01:44.38]strange as you say, I say revolution
[01:46.55]Need for change brings on revolution
[01:48.82]The great book just look see solution
[01:51.11]God chooses who and what for the bruisin'
[01:53.12]There's been no justice for none
[01:54.81]Of my sisters
[01:55.21]Just us been the ones that's been missin' her
[01:57.45]Now we got to protect
[02:00.21]We get together and damn this generation
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[02:02.08]I said so to what it is
[02:03.14]Where it is
[02:03.63]She needs a lil' respect
[02:04.99]There it is
[02:05.70]I say she needs a lotta
[02:07.55]Brother from a mother like me has gotta
[02:09.63]Give it up
[02:10.46]Give it now
[02:11.48]And pass it all around
[02:13.03]To my soul （sister）
[02:14.51]
[03:04.63]They disrespected mama and treated her like dirt
[03:07.45]America took her, reshaped her, raped her
[03:10.88]Nope, it never made the paper
[03:12.67]Beat us, mated us
[03:14.13]Made us attack our woman in black
[03:16.37]So I said sophisticated B, don't be one
[03:19.01]Not to head the warning crack of dawn
[03:21.04]Or is it the dawn of crack?
[03:22.42]Stop the talk they say, but
[03:23.71]We talk and say what's right or wrong
[03:25.47]Some say we wasting time singin' a song
[03:27.34]But why is it that we're many different shades
[03:29.69]Black woman's privacy invaded years and years
[03:31.73]You cannot count my mama's tears
[03:33.83]It's not the past but the future's
[03:35.34]What she fears
[03:36.13]Strong we be strong
[03:37.48]The next generation
[03:38.68]It's what not who we are facin'
[03:40.03]The fingers pointed to us in our direction
[03:42.35]The blind state of mind needs correction
[03:44.32]Word to the mother we tighten connection
[03:46.46]To be a man you need no election
[03:48.38]This generation generates a new attitude
[03:50.68]Sister to you we should not be rude
[03:52.80]So we come together
[03:53.94]And make 'em all say
[03:55.56]Damn this generation
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