Unity (Pt. 1 - The Third Coming) Lyrics
Everybody over here! (We all need respect!)
All the people of the world (All hoping for peace!)
Everybody think!
Peace! Unity! Love! And having fun!
Peace! Unity! Love! And having fun!
Peace! Unity! Love! And having fun!
Peace! Unity! Love! And having fun!
Uhhh! Arghhhh!
Fever, fever (Give it to me!)
'Bout today (Woooh!)
We need to check ourself
Correct our self
We need to pray (Yeah!)
Say it again
People, people, here's the story
'Bout today (Woooh!) (Teach them!)
We need to check our self
Get 'em now brothers
We need to pray (Wooh!)
Tell 'em now!
One confused nation
Massive demonstration
Hunger, poverty, killing, revenge
Is this the world we want to be in?
Anti-God, anti-life
Anti-religion, anti-what's-right
Anti-you and anti-me
Are we really facing reality?
Oooh-ooh-ha-haaaaa!
Ooh-ooh-ha-ha-ha!
World leaders, give it up
Gotta turn me loose! (Turn him loose)
Peace, harmony!
Young children, look-at here!
We got to choose (Got to choose)
Worries of today
Give it up, turn it loose
Punk rock, new wave
Peace, harmony!
Give it up!
We got to do it
Good God!
Peace! Unity! Love! And having fun!
Peace! Unity! Love! And having fun!
Peace! Unity! Love! And having fun!
Peace! Unity! Love! And having fun!
(What we want!) Love power!
(We got to have it!) Unity power!
(What we need!) Funk power!
(We got to have it!) Fun power!
(What we want!) Peace and unity!
(We got to have it!) No drugs!
(What we want!) No crime!
(We got to have it!) Don't do no time!
(What we need!) Knowledge wisdom
(We got to have it!) A whole lotta understanding
[?] Fun power!
(Bring 'em back to the fold!) Education
(What we want!) Love and peace
(Give it to 'em, give it to 'em!) Unity!
(What we need!) Funk power!
(Love your brother!) Owww!
That's bad, man. That is bad man, bad
I feel like I never done a record before
That's bad, brother, that is bad
Believe me, believe me, believe me that's bad
Believe me
About
“Unity” contains several references to Brown’s earlier recordings. The song’s a cappella opening paraphrases the beginning of his 1970 songs “Get Up, Get Into It and Get Involved”,“Soul Power” and an instrumental passage in the middle of part 1 is borrowed from his 1969 hit “Give It Up or Turnit a Loose”.
A videotape was shot of the vocal recordings of the song in Studio A at Unique Recording Studios, NYC. The tape was given to Fred Seibert and Alan Goodman of Fred/Alan Inc. to make into an inexpensive music video. The team worked with their in-house producer/director Tom Pomposello and creative director Marcy Brafman and Peter Caesar to create the video.
The video entered rotation on MTV in mid-October 1984.
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- 3.Unity (Part 3: Nuclear Wildstyle) (Missing Lyrics)
- 4.Unity (Part 4: Can You See It) (Missing Lyrics)
- 5.Unity (Part 5: The Light) (Missing Lyrics)
- 6.Unity (Part 6: World War 3) (Missing Lyrics)
