[Verse 1]
What do you give power to?
Seen the love of the money devour who
can hold enough of it where they'll never be held accountable/
I see the power in time, I know what an hour do
I'm putting time and money in words and buy a vowel too/
the crown I'm lifting up with the crowd in position
the power given to words is only found in the listener/
as young boys we learned of how they condition you
told to hold your emotions and live it proud as a prisoner/
sounding similar, feeling the weight of history
where the people in power would raise and engrave it into me/
I find freedom in breaking the cycle/
and the struggle's either keeping you grateful or spiteful/
and some found it in God and faith in the Bible
while others counter the odds by raising a rifle/
it's different ways of survival and whatever side leads
is the one that you feed/
so ask yourself

[Chorus]
How much do you need? How much do you want?
Using it to lead? Or using it to flaunt?
A symbol of your greed, how much is enough
knowing all that you concede, you'll never get to touch/
so ask would you
Live for it? Vie for it?
Kill for it? Die for it?
Vote for it? Hope for it?
Fight for it, or fighting against it?

[Verse 2]
Walk inside of Sal's Famous playing Public Enemy
with a fresh pack of batteries and thumping energy/
watching Raheem, symbolism in the finger rings
though it took a minute to figure and get the swing of things/
seen the power to love and hate are in my hands
either grow a garden or turn your heart in dry land/
so when the powerless need a route to get out of it
decide if I am one to stand by them or by-stand/
divide man by religion and race
politicians equate power and fear
to separate ours and theirs
instill borders/
because warfare is big business, they fill orders
build walls and feel cornered/
my shield torn as I would try to protect
against the outside, but the inner side, I neglect/
but conquer your mind, and conquer the world
from one thought, see it unlock and watch it unfurl/

[Chorus]

[Outro]
Pulitzer Prize winning author of "The Power Broker," Robert A. Caro, is widely considered one of the world's foremost experts on the subject of power. According to Caro, "we're taught Lord Acton's Axiom, all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's always true anymore. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals. When you have enough power to do what you always wanted to do, then you see what the guy always wanted to do."