James Brown - Mind Power Lyrics

You know
We're dealing with
A very critical and crucial times
Most, crucial and critical time that I've ever witnessed
Being as young as I am
You know
We all don't want to say nothing else, so we say "as young as we are"
Now I want to talk about
The pronunciation
And the realization
Now the educators
They call it
E.S.P.
Positive thinking, right?
Some of the people across the other side of the pond call it
Vibes
Vibrations
Astrology and all those different things you understand

But I call it, what it is and what it is
What it is and what it is

Lookie here
Now you see
A brother
You take in the ghetto you find a whole lot of crime
I can understand
Hey
I know what it means
Being nine years old before I got my first pair of underwear out of a store
You know
Putting on a half
A half pressed suit
From the pawn shop
With tennis shoes
Trying to be hip
See I know where it's coming from
Like the fellow say, "having catfish head stew"
And then like the catfish went in there with his head and come out very quick and didn't leave nothing else!
Now, there's one thing that the educators and the politicians and the establishment
Gotta remember
Now, brothers need jobs

If you don't work
You can't eat
If you don't work
You can't eat
Get hip to yourself, good God, my brother, and get it from the street
If you don't work
You can't eat
Sis
If you don't work, Lord
You can't eat

So you've got to have mind power to deal with starvation
And that's what we're dealing with
You see we can't
Go back to the biblical stories
"2 loaves of bread"
Or "2 little fishes, 5 loaves of bread"
"2 little fishes" yeah
"5 loaves of bread"
Now lookie here
There's too many brothers that go by that
Now I want you brothers to dig where we coming from
Set your mind
Right here
Dig the JBE experience
I dug this from a young man out of New York
He said the GBE
The GBE
Now we want to take it to the JBE
The JB experience

Now friend
Brother, brother
Lay it on me
Lay it

Mind Power

Mind Power
Mind
Mind Power
What it is, what it is
What it is, what it is
It is what it is
It is what it is
It is what it is
That's what it is
It is
What it is
That's what it is

You know
Dealing with Harlem
South Side of Chicago
The Bay area
Watts
Five Point, Buttermilk Bottom in Atlanta
Diane Street in Augusta
West Broad in Savannah
U Street in Washington
Going over to Baltimore
South Street in Philly
Boston
I know

Somebody needs to help us
Give us
Just give us a chance
Somebody
Brothers across the nation
You got to get yourself together
Unified
We need information
Brothers across the nation
Pass on that right-on
Information
Brothers across the nation

That love power
Funky robot
That mind power
JB experience
JBE
Now back to
And meanwhile back to the ranch
Let's talk about the things what
That we deal with each and every day
Now horns
Now horns
Lets tell everybody

What it is, is what it is
What it is, is what it is
What it is, is what it is
What it is, is what it is
What it is
You can't change it
What it is, is what it is
Don't try to change it
What it is, is what it is
Deal with it
What it is, is what it is
Don't fool yourself
What it is, is what it is
Look in the mirror
What it is, is what it is
You'll find
What it is, is what it is
You can't fool yourself
What it is, is what it is
Gotta deal with it
What it is, is what it is
What it is
What it is, is what it is
What it is
What it is, is what it is
Tell 'em man
What it is, is what it is
Deal with it
What it is, is what it is
What it
What it is, is what it is
Wait a minute

A lookie here
I believe we should go back to the top
I wanna go back to the beginning
'Cause I like to hear ol' Morgan play them funky sticks over there
Now we'll build it up a bit and we'll tell 'em

What it is, is what it is
What it is, is what it is
What it is, is what it is
What it is, is what it is
Give me some horns
What it is, is what it is
What it is, is what it is

What it is
Give me a taste Jimmy
Give me taste
Hit me
I wanna go way back there
To the top
Way back there
Right now