Spoken: 'Crank the music up' Bring that shit in! Uggh! Yeah, the movement's in motion with mass militant poetry Now check this out...uggh! In the right light, study becomes insight But the system that dissed us Teaches us to read and right So called facts are fraud They want us to allege and pledge And bow down to their God Lost the culture, the culture lost Spun our minds and through time Ignorance has taken over Yo, we gotta take the power back! Bam! Here's the plan Motherfuck Uncle Sam Step back, I know who I am Raise up your ear, I'll drop the style and clear It's the beats and the lyrics they fear The rage is relentless We need a movement with a quickness You are the witness of change And to counteract We gotta take the power back Yeah, we gotta take the power back Come on, come on! We gotta take the power back The present curriculum I put my fist in 'em Eurocentric every last one of 'em See right through the red, white and blue disguise With lecture I puncture the structure of lies Installed in our minds and attempting To hold us back We've got to take it back 'Cause holes in our spirit causin' tears and fears One-sided stories for years and years and years I'm inferior? Who's inferior? Yea, we need to check the interior Of the system that cares about only one culture And that is why We gotta take the power back Yeah, we gotta take the power back Come on, come on! We gotta take the power back Hey yo check, we're gonna have to break it, break it, break it down Awww shit! Uggh! And like this...uggh! Come on, yeah! Bring it back the other way! The teacher stands in front of the class But the lesson plan he can't recall The student's eyes don't perceive the lies Bouning off every fucking wall His composure is well kept I guess he fears playing the fool The complacent students sit and listen to some of that Bullshit that he learned in school Europe ain't my rope to swing on Can't learn a thing from it Yet we hang from it Gotta get it, gotta get it together then Like the motherfuckin' weathermen To expose and close the doors on those who try To strangle and mangle the truth 'Cause the circle of hatred continues unless we react We gotta take the power back Yeah, we gotta take the power back Come on, come on! We gotta take the power back No more lies (8 times, building to a crescendo) Uggh! Yeah! Take it back Joe Take it back, a-take it back A-take it back Joe, come on! Take it back Joe Take it back, a-take it back A-take it back Joe, come on! Uggh! Yeah!
By: R.Allen Canterbury (acanterb@vt.edu)
This is a cool song. Sounds like it's got some funk-slap stuff going on.
I've debated people on whether it's just sharp plectrum picking or actual
slap play. I prefer the slap play myself. As I have this song written, the
low E is tuned down 1 step to a "D". It sounds better to me, and also the
next-to-last little riff (the one repeated 16 times) works nicely using 3
octaves of "D" as it sounds on the record.
The main slap riff is kinda hard to pin down w/ the bass drum in the
background, so I don't know if he's slap-muting or if it's the drum. Play it
however you like. The little tail on the main slap riff varies every time
he repeats the whole set (set = 3 main riffs, 1 tail riff). I put down one
possible tail, but you should vary it each time for fun. If ANYONE has all
of the different tails tabbed out, POST THEM! I'd like to know.
"Dropped D" Tuning (D,A,D,G)
intro T T T T T T T T T T T T P T T T P T T (x4)
G:------|------------------------------|------------------------------------|
D:-Rest-|------------------------------|*--------------5----------5--------*|
A:------|------------------------------|*--------3h5-X-----3h5-5-----------*|
D:------|-0-0--R--0-0--R--0-0--R--0-0--|-R--0-0----------X-----------0-0----|
Fig 1. Fig 2.
T T T T P T T T P (x3) T T T T P T T T
G:-----|-----------------------------|------------------------6H8--|
D:--r--|*-------------5----------5--*|-------------5------3H5------|
A:-----|*-------3h5-X-----3h5-5-----*|-------3h5-X----3H5----------|
D:-----|---0-0----------X------------|--0-0------------------------|
(x5) Fig 3. (x3) ring____
G:--------------|----------|---------------------------|--------------------|
D:*--Fig-1-(x3)-|-Fig-2---*|*-------------------------*|--------------------|
A:*-------------|-simile--*|*-----5-----3--4--5-------*|-----5-----3--------|
D:--------------|----------|---0-----0-----------0-0---|--0-----0-----------|
Fig 4.
T T T T T T T T (x2)
G:-------------------------------------|--------------|----------|
D:-------------------------------------|*-Fig-1-(x3)--|--Fig-2--*|
A:-------------------------------------|*-------------|-simile--*|
D:--0-0---R---0-0---R--0-0---R---0-0---|--------------|----------|
ring____ (x5)
G:------------|-------------------|-------------|---------|
D:-Fig-3-(x3)-|-------------------|*-Fig-1-(x3)-|-Fig-2--*|
A:------------|----5-----3--------|*------------|-Simile-*|
D:------------|-0-----0-----------|-------------|---------|
(x8) (x2)
G:----------------------|-----------|---------------|---------|-------------|
D:*--------------------*|-Fig-4-(x2)|*--Fig-1--(x3)-|-Fig-2--*|--Fig-3-(x3)-|
A:*--5--4--3-----------*|-----------|*--------------|-simile-*|-------------|
D:------------0--3--5---|-----------|---------------|---------|-------------|
(x16)
G:--------------|------------7---|
D:--------------|*--------------*|
A:----5-----3---|*-----5--------*|
D:-0-----0------|---0-----0------|
(x8)
G:--------------------------------------------|
D:*------------------------------------------*|
A:*-5-4-3-XX-5-4-3-XX-5-4-3------------------*|
D:--------------------------0(0)-3h5-3h5-3h5--|
Tab by Christopher Preston (PRIMUS8@AOL.COM) Intro: |---------| x times |---------| |---------| |-0-0-----| |------------------------|---------| x times |-------5\--X------------|---------| |-5-7-X---7---5-7-X-5----|---------| |------------------------|-0-0-----| Ending: |------------| |------------| |-5-4-3--X-X-| |------------|