Get down, get down
Get down, get down
Get down, get down
Get down, get down
Lift every voice and sing
Yeah, but we gon' lift every fist and swing
So save the Negro spiritual
It's 1992 and niggaz need a miracle
And no more song and dance
Like we shall overcome, and ain't got a chance
Y'all stuck on 'I have a dream'
Need to put the picket sign down and get on the team
Stand up and do somethin'
(Get down, get down)
Stop beggin' for a meal, 'cause everything is real
Nigga look at yourself, you in hell
Claimin' welfare, or should I say fare-well
Mr. Christian, you was too spooky
Now Bush wanna slave, and Russia wanna nuke me
And the most you can tell me is love thy enemy?
Stay off the Hennessey
Pops I want freedom, so hand me the nine
(Get down, get down)
You can pray for yours, but I'ma go get mine
Now how long has it been?
For a hundred and thirty-seven years, but neva again
Neva neva, neva again
Neva neva, neva again
Neva neva, neva again, neva again
Neva neva, neva again
God bless America but for what?
How 'bout God damn America, the slut, yeah
Now I can name that tune
'Cause the land of the free is sellin' Negroes at noon
But how soon we forget
Mention the holocaust, niggaz have a fit
Sorry it's real but I'm fresh out of tears
'Cause lynch that nigga's still ringin' in my ears
I want freedom, justice, equality, Islam
(Get down, get down)
So it's hard to keep calm
When I'm accused of bein' racist for lovin' my people first
Now they wanna put me in a hearse
But black people never made white slaves
And we was too lovin' to put Jews in a oven
But the pilgrims wasn't so friendly then
And by the way, I never ate a Indian
So who's the real savage?
(Get down, get down)
Six feet tall on the average
Mark the number of the goddamn beast
To the East my brother to the East say neva again
Neva neva, neva again
Neva neva, neva again
Neva neva, neva again
Neva neva, neva again, neva again
Neva neva, neva again
Neva neva, neva again
Neva neva, neva again
Neva neva, neva again, neva again
Oh, say can y'all see?
It's the home of the slave, land of the never free
America me, the so called Negro
With another verse, so here we go
As long as y'all been givin' me hell
(Get down, get down)
No wonder there's a crack in the Liberty Bell
To tell on America the beautiful
The bitch need a face lift, for this race myth
And now for you to pull a caper, kidnap rape her
The penalty is death
'Cause we ain't forgave or forgot
Blacks bein' murdered, tortured and shot
Six hundred million, one eighty sevens
It's bringin' wrath down from the heavens
So let my people go Pharoahe, the arrow
Is point at your dome, and if we don't make it home
Cancel Christmas
Like E P M D we got some unfinished business
From way back, payback for your sin
(Get down, get down)
So paleskin', tell a friend, neva again
Neva neva, neva again
(Get down, get down)
Neva neva, neva again
(Get down, get down)
(Get down, get down)
Neva neva, neva again, neva again
(Get down, get down)
Neva neva, neva again
(Get down, get down)
Neva neva, neva again
(Get down, get down)
Neva neva, neva again
(Get down, get down)
Neva neva, neva again, neva again
(Get down, get down)
Neva neva, neva again
(Get down, get down)
Neva neva, neva again, neva again
(Get down, get down)
Neva neva, neva again, neva again
(Get down, get down)
Neva neva, neva again, neva again
(Get down, get down)