The Power Of Equality lyrics

I've got a soul

That cannot sleep

At night when something

Just ain't right

Blood red

But without sight

Exploding egos

In the night

Mix like sticks

Of dynamite

Red black or white

This is my fight

Come on courage

Let's be heard

Turn feelings

Into words

American equality

Has always been sour

An attitude

I would like to devour

My name is peace

This is my hour

Can I get

Just a little bit of power

The power of equality

Is not yet what it ought to be (ought to be)

It fills me up like a hollow tree (hollow tree)

The power of equality

Right or wrong

My song is strong

You don't like it

Get along

Say what I want

Do what I can

Death to the message

Of the Ku Klux Klan

I don't buy supremacy

Media chief

You menace me

The people you say

'Cause all the crime

Wake up motherfucker

And smell the slime

Blackest anger

Whitest fear

Can you hear me

Am I clear

My name is peace

This is my hour

Can I get

Just a little bit of power

The power of equality

Is not yet what it ought to be (ought to be)

It fills me up like a hollow tree (hollow tree)

The power of equality

I've got tapes

I've got CD's

I've got my public enemy

My lilly white ass

Is tickled pink

When I listen to the music

That makes me think

Not another

Motherfuckin' politician

Doin' nothin' but something

For his own ambition

Never touch

The sound we make

Soul sacred love

Vows that we take

To create straight

What is true

Yo he's with me

And what I do

My name is peace

This is my hour

Can I get

Just a little bit of power

The power of equality

Is not yet what it ought to be (ought to be)

It fills me up like a hollow tree (hollow tree)

The power of equality

Madder than a motherfucker

Lick my finger

Can't forget

'Cause the memory lingers

Count 'em off quick

Little piccadilly sickness

Take me to the hick

Eat my thickness

I've got a welt

From the bible belt

Dealing with the hand

That I've been dealt

Sitting in the grip

Of a killing fist

Giving up blood

Just to exist

Rub me wrong

And I get pissed

No I cannot

Get to this

People in pain

I do not dig it

Change of brain

For Mr Bigot

Little brother do you hear me

Have a heart oh come get near me

Misery is not my friend

But I'll break before I bend

What I see is insanity

What ever happened to humanity

What ever happened to humanity

What ever happened to humanity

• Artist:Red Hot Chili Peppers
• Album:Blood Sugar Sex Magik (1991)