Distinguished guests Brothers and sisters Ladies and gentlemen Friends and enemies White, black, brown, red, yellow It doesn't make any difference what color you are The only thing power respects is power They take one little word out of what you say Ignore all the rest And then begin to magnify it all over the world To make you look like what you actually aren't Much of what I say might sound like it's stiring up trouble But it's the truth With the truth We don't care who likes it or not As long as we know it's the truth No, either this or that, this or that If you're wrong, you're wrong And if you're right, you're right There is no skullduggery No flim-flam No compromise No sell out No controlled show You can't deny that You may not like my saying it But you can't deny it If you're afraid to tell the truth Why you don't even deserve freedom You can't say you're not going to have an explosion And you leave the condition And as long as those ingredients..
