The Power Of Equality -- Red Hot Chili Peppers

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

(**)

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

(**)

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

This song is an attack on racism and inequality. It is in the style of the rap band Public Enemy,
 who are mentioned in the third verse: "I got tapes, I got CDs I got my Public Enemy."
                                                                                                                              (songfacts.com)