The Yoke (G.U.O.T.R.) - Alexander O'Neal

If you seek with open eyes and mind

Anything you’re looking for you’ll find

I’m just out here searching for respect

Keep reaching for the top I’ll be the best

Get the yoke off my back

Gonna use my intellect to get the yoke off my back

Gotta get the yoke off my back, give myself a chance

Get the yoke off my back

Gotta get up on the rhythm, get up

I gotta get up on the rhythm

Get this yoke off my back

Gotta get up on the rhythm, get up

I gotta get up on the rhythm

Get this yoke off my back

It’s not whips and chains that make a slave

It’s the power of the rhythm in the brain

Can’t live everyday locked in a trance

Gotta break this bondage to have a chance

Don’t like oppression, don’t like rejection

I like perfection, a clear perception

Gotta get this yoke off my back

Gonna give myself a chance

To get this yoke off my back

Gotta get this yoke off my back, gonna use my intellect

To get this yoke off my back

I gotta get up on the rhythm, get up

I gotta get up on the rhythm, get this yoke off my back

I gotta get up on the rhythm, get up

I gotta get up on the rhythm, get this yoke off my back

I gotta get up on the rhythm get up

I gotta get up on the rhythm, get this yoke off my back

I gotta get up on the rhythm, get up

T gotta get up on the rhythm, get this yoke off my back

I feel a lot better when the yoke is off my back

Get up on the rhythm

The only key to freedom

Mental state of being, all seeing

You’ve been holding me back for too long

The time is now, to sing my song

How long will the years of oppression

Stop progression that is the question

I refuse to lose or be used by the yoke

No joke

Now tell me do you see what I see

Who says we’re free, in this society

Things have changed but I still feel chained down

It’s all the same, rearranged, my skin’s still brown

Tight as a rope now cut me some slack

What is this thing that’s been placed on my back

Why does the yoke want to leave me for dead

Think for a second, it’s all in your head

Gotta get up on the rhythm, get up

I gotta get up on the rhythm

Get this yoke off my back

Gotta get up on the rhythm, get up

I gotta get up on the rhythm

Get this yoke off my back

Gotta get up on the rhythm, get up

I gotta get up on the rhythm

Get this yoke off my back

Gotta get up on the rhythm, get up

I gotta get up on the rhythm

Get this yoke off my back

If you want me to pull ya, I’m not a mule

I’m not a beast of burden

I’m not your average tool

And if you ever need to know, what’s goin' on

Let me open up your eyes before the view is gone