SPEak!

[Verse 1: Chuck D]

Old enough, bold enough

Man up, woman up

Think you had enough?

What you know about

Whatever you know about

Question is, uh, can you get it out?

Spoke!

Stay woke

Gun culture silenced

Stop the violence made all the brilliant silent

World ain’t gonna fix itself

World ain’t gonna change itself

Run your mouth

Don’t be dumb

But bump them gums

I know that the insecure be sure that their adversaries

End up shootin’ them guns

Dumb shit rises to the top

Ain’t got shit to say

Shut the words

Makin’ action stop

Diction avoids friction

Speak and aim

Ain’t playin’

Make it plain

Express yourself

Stand up to the game

Cause it’s stupid being afraid

Of the same egg you laid

Talk it over!

[Hook]

Speak! Your mind

Speak! It’s time

Speak! Your peace (Believe me when I speak it)

Speak! Be free

Speak! Your mind

Speak! It’s time

Speak! Your peace (Believe me when I speak it)

Speak! Be free

Speak! Your mind

Speak! It’s time

Speak! Your peace (Believe me when I speak it)

Speak! Be free

Speak! Your mind

Speak! It’s time

Speak! Speak! Speak! (Believe me when I speak it)

Woaaaah!

[Verse 2: Chuck D]

Dumb shit

Who can’t talk

Need a gun

Cause the brain

Can’t change the terrain

Trained by a government chain

Makin’ it rain in the club

That goes without sayin’ the devil don’t want change

You old enough to shave you old enough to save

Speak easy talkin’ somethin’

Say it loud

Malcolm, Garvey, Sonia Sanchez proud

Sister Souljah, Jesse, Al, Huey

Orator heard

Hip hop got the culture

Rap is the words

Having the blind

Loving some dumb aimed and directed death

And end up callin’ it def

Feds to protect black crime from the threat of community

Keeping truth from the youth, have them shootin’ me

And at each other, sister and brother

Lockin’ the rest up in them federal ovens

What y’all know about whatever you know about

Question is can you get it out?

Talk it over

[Hook]

Speak! Your mind

Speak! It’s time

Speak! Your peace (Believe me when I speak it)

Speak! Be free

Speak! Your mind

Speak! It’s time

Speak! Your peace (Believe me when I speak it)

Speak! Be free

Speak! Your mind

Speak! It’s time

Speak! Your peace (Believe me when I speak it)

Speak! Be free

Speak! Your mind

Speak! It’s time

Speak! Speak! Speak! (Believe me when I speak it)

Speak!

Believe me when I speak it

Believe me when I speak it

Believe me when I speak it

Believe me when I speak it

Believe me when I speak it

Believe me when I speak it