[Chorus One 2X: KRS-One]

First thing we must do is make up our - MIND

Then we must go and really clear our - MIND

Erase the doubt and the fear from our - MIND

Share our - MIND, speak our - MIND



[KRS-One]

Stand up brother, stand up sister

I told y'all before, love is gonna get'cha

Lovin that money, lovin that liquor

Lovin that sex without respect you gets no bigger

I ain't got time to chill, only got time to build

You find that in those with skills

This a real MC, of the highest degree

With no video, my show they dyin to see

Not whether I'm buyin 'em three

When you watch television just keep sayin they lyin to me

Cause they are - how long you gonna stay at the bar?

I'm not desperate for money, maybe you are, but listen



[Chorus Two 2X: KRS-One]

First thing we gon' do is make up our - MIND

Then we gon' go, and we gon' clear our - MIND

Erase the doubt and the fear from our - MIND

Share our - MIND, speak our - MIND



[KRS-One]

Don't you think it's time we thought about the future?

Whether our children they gonna be winners or losers?

Don't you think it's time to advance the rhyme we spit?

Whether you know it or not, you deep in politics

All inside of it, in fact YOU the issue

Don't let this government diss you!

They really do not want you to vote

They really do not want you to hope

They really want you sniffin they coke

You look around yo we missin the boat

I coulda wrote about ANYTHING to get on, but this what I wrote

And what I'm writin, is guaranteed to enlighten

Like Dr. Cornel West, Michael Eric Dyson

This is how we do it today, enough of the crime talk

KRS got somethin new to say

Rise up, and put aside childish things

Thi