brothers and sisters let me share with you some news as i sit on my plush couch watching the news there has been a rude awakening that i have marched until my feet have bled and i have rioted until they called the feds what s left my conscience said what s left my conscience said as i look out my window i see the little ones playing amongst each other with their waterguns in pure poverty generations of good people in cycles of poverty it bothers me so i ask myself i say are you doing as much as you can for the struggle am i doing as much as i can for the struggle then why do i cry when my people are in trouble my ancestors slapped me in the face and said harriet tubman told me to get on up marcus garvey said the negro you get on up my brother malcolm x need i name more it ain t like we never seen blood before come on let s talk revolution now all my people say all my brothers say all my sisters say all my people say hey all my people say all my people say i see blood on one malcolm as one shot em i see tears cause now it seems that we forgot him i seen years of people searching for solutions restitution excuses no more no more confusion come on come on let s talk right let s talk right talk up talk up but don t talk up all night there s got to be action if you want satisfaction if not for yourself for the young ones the u n the u s we can t allow you to tell us a kid in the ghetto is not as important as a kid in bosnia i ain t with it just forget it you can t even debate if you don t understand our situation you don t want us to go get a gun now do you you don t like to see people running around now yet and still you wanna live like 9 oh 2 1 oh while we scream out freedom five grandmothers ago they erased it we must acquire a taste for something we ve never tasted so people let us wet our palates it s either the bullet or the ballot come now revolution now all my people say all my brothers say all my sisters say hey all my people say let s talk about a revolution all my people say all my people say let s talk about a revolution hey now see i understand what my people have said they tell me to fight fight for the ancestors who are dead for harriet tubman move organization david walker the black panthers kwame nkrumah marcus garvey jane pittman revolution 1