Public Enemy - The Long and Whining Road lyrics

That's right, Public Enemy number one (One)
Twenty years

It's been a long and whining road
Even though time keeps a changin'
I'ma bring it all back home
I been told I spit lyrics with politics
Why wouldn't I?
It says Negro on my birth certificate
Born in 1960 in a nation throughout
I've been a spokesperson for a generation
Within the same old fear of a Black planet
Twenty years of blood, sweat
No tears for fanatics
So damn it, if times is hard, time is God
Understand it never took time for granted
It's alright, Ma, as a child of the sixties
Along the watchtower
I can't bet they're going to miss me
I'm only bleedin' every grain in me
Fans, if it's not for you, there'd be no PE


From the Nashville Skyline
To the homeboys and girls of South Country
In this world gone wrong
Here's another love song

(One, one, one) "Num-number one
Number-number one"
(One, one, one) "Honest-honestly I
Need to stop hating, number one" Come on
(One, one, one) No tears
"Num-number one, number-number one"
"Honest-honestly I need to stop hating
Number one" "Hoo hah!"

We came a long way, baby
You know what's amazing? They're surprised
We told these new guys
Flavor's always been crazy
Hit London '87 like it was an invasion
Toured the world for three years
A hell with a vacation
Vocation of vocalization
Especially with the impact
Of "It Takes a Nation of
Millions to Hold Us Back"
You bet there's blood on
Them Bomb Squad tracks
"Black Steel, " "Baseheads, " "Party
For Your Right to Fight, "
"Prophets of Rage, " "Bring the Noise
" and "Don't Believe the Hype, "
"Can't Do Nuttin' For You Man"
"911 is a Joke" twenty years
We got here by actin' like common folk
Tourin' the world like a Rolling Stone
Then the nineties came (yeah)
Then we welcomed y'all to the Terrordome
Some threw it away
Instead we had somethin' to say
Cause the streets still ended up
By havin' no names
Since "Rebel Without a Pause
" the beats were never the same
And by 1998, we still had game, we rocked on
(Rockin' on, rockin' on)

(One, one, one) "Num-number one
Number-number one"
(One, one, one) "Honest-honestly I
Need to stop hating, number one"
(One, one, one)
"Num-number one, number-number one"
"Honest-honestly I need to stop hating
Number one" "Hoo hah!"

Only a pawn in the game
Chastised for naming names
What was said and who said it
Anti nothing so forget it
Tears of rage left a friend
Blowing in the wind
But time is God, been back for ten years
And black again
Some of them same cats helped
Usher in gangsta rap
Damn, our interviews were better than
A lot of them acts
Praised the gangsta just because it sold
(Power)
While consciousness went from platinum and
It shrunk down to gold
Seen the nation reduce fight the
Power to gin and juice
Some people gave it up and
They turned it loose (Bring the noise)
They rocked on (Come on)

(One, one, one) "Num-number one
Number-number one"
(One, one, one) "Honest-honestly I
Need to stop hating, number one"
(One, one, one)
"Num-number one, number-number one"
"Honest-honestly I need to stop hating
Number one" "Hoo hah!"

Beethoven, Bach, and Brahms
I want some James Brown
Even Bruce, Brian, Bono, Beck, yeah
Chuck Berry prince, Stevie, Sly, Smokey
Johnny Cash in my Chevy
Heard some call me Uncle Tom
- now that's Petty i'm a songwriter, fool
I condense sense from right and wrong
I'm livin' in the key of protest songs
From basement tapes
Beyond them dollars and cents
Changing of the guards spent
Now where the hell the majors went?
Most of their time out of mind
Hating my mess-age rhymes
"Can't Truss It, " "Shut 'em Down
" call it what you want it
They made a day fit for a king
By the time we got to Arizona
Tomorrow's a long time, got God on our side
Over bass and drum beats
Hear the good rhymes ride
There's a poison goin' on
There's a shelter from the storm
Hard rain's gonna fall
Still the people rock on we rock on
(Blood, sweat, no tears, Public Enemy)

(One, one, one) "Num-number one
Number-number one"
(One, one, one) "Honest-honestly I
Need to stop hating, number one"
(One, one, one)
"Num-number one, number-number one"
"Honest-honestly I need to stop hating
Number one" "Hoo hah!"
(One, one, one) "Num-number one
Number-number one"
(One, one, one) "Honest-honestly I
Need to stop hating, number one"
(One, one, one)
"Num-number one, number-number one"
"Honest-honestly I need to stop hating
Number one" "Hoo hah!"