(featuring Xzibit) [Intro: Xzibit] (Jonathan Davis) Yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah Yeah, let's go (Fight the power Fight the power Fight the power You gotta fight the powers that be) Let me hear you say (Fight the power Fight the power Fight the power You gotta fight the powers that be) [Jonathan Davis] (Xzibit) {Both} 1989 the number another summer (Get down) Sound of the fucking drummer Music hitting your heart cause I know you got soul (Brothers and sisters) Listen if you're missing y'all Swinging while I'm singing Giving whatcha getting Knowing what I know While the whole bands sweating {And the rhythm rhymes rolling} Got to give us what we want (Ho) Gotta give us what we need (Yeah) Our freedom of speech is freedom our death We got to fight the powers that be [Chorus: Jonathan Davis] (Xzibit) (Let me hear you say) Fight the power Fight the power Fight the power You gotta fight the powers that be (Let me hear you say) Fight the power Fight the power Fight the power You gotta fight the powers that be [Xzibit] (Jonathan Davis) As the rhythm designed to bounce What counts is that the rhyme Designed to fill your mind Now that you've realized the prides arrived We got to pump the stuff to make us tough from the heart It's a start A work of art To revolutionize make a change nothing's strange People, people we are the same No we're not the same Cause we don't know the game What we need is awareness We can't get careless You say what is this? (What is this) My beloved lets get down to business Mental self defensive fitness Bum rush the show You gotta go for what you know, yeah And make everybody see In order to fight the powers that be [Chorus] [Jonathan Davis] Elvis was a hero to most But he never meant shit to me you see Straight up racist that sucker was Simple and plain [Xzibit] Motherfuck him and John Wayne Cause I'm black and I'm proud And I'm ready, I'm hyped plus I'm amped Most of my heroes don't appear on no stamps [Jonathan Davis] (Xzibit) Take a look back and you'll look and you'll find Rednecks for 400 years if you check (Man Fuck Tha Police) Was a number one jam (Yeah) But soon as I say it they can slap me right here, fuck it [Xzibit] (Jonathan Davis) {Both} Let's get this party started right (Right on, come on) What we got to say (Hey) Power to the people no delay (Yeah) And make everybody see In order to {fight the powers that be} [Chorus] x2