"Power to the People" (1971)

Lyrics:

[Intro]

Power to the people

Power to the people

Power to the people

Power to the people

Power to the people

Power to the people

Power to the people

Power to the people, right on

[Verse 1]

Say you want a revolution

We better get on right away

Well you get on your feet

And into the street

[Chorus]

Singing power to the people

Power to the people

Power to the people

Power to the people, right on

[Verse 2]

A million workers working for nothing

You better give them what they really own

We got to put you down

When we come into town

[Chorus]

Singing power to the people

Power to the people

Power to the people

Power to the people, right on

[Verse 3]

I got to ask you comrades and brothers

How do you treat you own woman back home

She got to be herself

So she can free herself

[Chorus][x3]

Singing power to the people

Power to the people

Power to the people

Power to the people, right on

Now, now, now, now

[Outro]

Power to the people

Power to the people

Power to the people

Power to the people, right on

Lennon doesn't bother mincing words in this song, getting straight to the point with his message: everyone deserves their own rights, no if's and's or but's about it. He speaks of protests, rights of laborers and gender equality, demanding that everyone be given their own freedoms to be themselves and be equal with their fellow people. He ushers a powerful call to action as well as a command to those in control of the power with this song: give us back the lives we all deserve.