[Man's voice]
   The end...justifies the means
   Two-two-two wrongs...make, a right
   I-I should come first, in this nation
  
   [Q]
   You gotta readjust the means
   I'll tell you what I mean
   Sometimes you gotta work it out
   Sometimes you gotta figure it out
  
   You gotta readjust the means
   I'll tell you what I mean
   Sometimes you gotta work it out
   Sometimes you gotta figure it out
   Yeah, yeah...yeah
  
   [Afu-Ra]
   I have so many questions, guessin' what life's about
   Usin' seven of my nine lives, figurin' out
   I'm goin' through it day to day
   Or should I say: maze to maze?
   I know that jewels light the way, listen
   There's too many shades of grey, tryin' to stay, right
   Peripheral vision, is seekin' out my sunlight
   I know that love is love, and hate is hate
   Twenty-seven years of tribulation marking my case
   Yeah, I guess I'm stressing my case
   There's only one thing I'm promised in life
   That's my fate
   Born to set the pace while I'm racin' the race
   I know it's hard work, that's why I'm holdin' the ace
   As I look to jump, up on that righteous path
   I got angels on one shoulder, demons on the other half
   A mirror face to face, surveying my landscape
   All the while I be singing this space
  
   [Q]
   You gotta readjust the means
   I'll tell you what I mean
   Sometimes you gotta work it out
   Sometimes you gotta figure it out
  
   You gotta readjust the means
   I'll tell you what I mean
   Sometimes you gotta work it out
   Sometimes you gotta figure it out
   Yeah, yeah...yeah
  
   [Afu-Ra]
   As we haze through the haze of enslavement
   While the sweat's beatin millions of feet pound on the pavement
   I know it's nine to five, or five to nine
   Forget about the thoughts that I'm wastin' my time
   Just use the tutelage, of your legendary fore-fathers
   Cos right now, we now the struggle is ours
   It's not too complicated, just combinations of pulling our resources
   Of our sisters and our brothers
   Who be a alike, that's a little insight
   The strength be coming in numbers it's like dynamite
   No riddle right, spit it right, about some real life
   And are we really rich, at peace and settled?
   When everyday homeless people peddle for nickels
   While Easy Mo Bee strikin' a chord
   Of this hip-hop oracle, desires for life
   And what? You know what I'm coming to
   It's just my point of view
  
   [Q]
   You gotta readjust the means
   I'll tell you what I mean
   Sometimes you gotta work it out
   Sometimes you gotta figure it out
  
   You gotta readjust the means
   I'll tell you what I mean
   Sometimes you gotta work it out
   Sometimes you gotta figure it out
   Yeah, yeah...yeah yeah yeah (reverbs)
  
   [Afu-Ra]
   And as we realise life, and what?
   We gotta suck it in
   And are we droppin' some knowledge, or are we frontin' an'?
   Your course in life, no matter how you rub it in
   There's so many roads, either you strugglin' or bubblin'
  
   [Q]
   You gotta readjust the means
   I'll tell you what I mean
   Sometimes you gotta work it out
   Sometimes you gotta figure it out
  
   You gotta readjust the means
   I'll tell you what I mean
   Sometimes you gotta work it out
   Sometimes you gotta figure it out
  
   You gotta readjust the means
   I'll tell you what I mean
   Sometimes you gotta work it out
   Sometimes you gotta figure it out
  
   You gotta readjust the means
   Tell me what I mean
   Sometimes you gotta work it out
   Sometimes you gotta figure it out
   Oh yeah, yeah, yeah
   Oh oh