For God's sake Gotta give more power to the people For God's sake Give more power to the people There's some people up there Hoggin' everything Tellin' lies and givin' alibis About the people's money and things And if they gonna throw it away You might as well give some to me Yeah, they seen and heard it But they never had a misery There's some people who are Starvin' to death Never knew but they only hate us They never had happiness If you don't have enough to eat How can you think of love? You don't have the time to care It's crime, you're guilty of For God's sake You gotta give more power to the people For God's sake Give more power to the people Cut this jive And see who's got the power When they're runnin' out of it The world's gonna be a ghost They know we're not satisfied So we begin to holler Makin' us a promise so they're Throwin' a 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 For God's sake Gotta give more power to the people For God's sake Gotta give more power to the people For God's sake You gotta give more Hey, tell 'em what you think about it For God's sake Don't leave it too late For God's sake Gotta give more power to the people For God's sake Aren't you listenin' to your people now? Listen up It's getting tired It's getting tired, yeah For God's sake Give more power to the people Please Come on now Open up your ears Give more power to the people For God's sake For God's sake You really are? Give me now Oh, give more power to the people Give it!