Give More Power to the People [NOW !!]

By Chi-lites (Eugene Record)

For God's sake,

you got to give more power to the people

Verse 1:

There's some people up there hoggin' everything

Tellin' lies,

givin' alibis about the people's money and things

And if they gonna throw it away,

might as well give some to me

Yeah they seen and heard it,

but never had misery

There are some people who are starvin' to death

Never knew but only hate us [?],

and they never had happiness

Oh, oh, oh, if you don't have enough to eat,

how can you think of love

You don't have the time to care

so it's crime you're guilty of, oh yeah

Chorus:

For God's sake,

you got to give more power to the people

For God's sake,

why don't you give more power to the people

Verse 2:

Cut this jive

and see who's got the power to kill the most

When they run out of power,

the world's gonna be ghost

They know we're not satisfied,

so we begin to holler

Makin' us promise and throwin' few more dollars

There's no price for happiness,

there's no price for love

Up goes the price of livin',

and you're right back where you was

So whatever you got,

just be glad you got it

Now we're gonna get on up

and get some more of it

[repeat chorus]

Got to have it...

more power!