I can't do it, I can't do it
You gotta do it for yourself
Even though I'm your lover man
Are the mistress of your soul
Move toward the light, girl
For what you seek, you will find
Don't be afraid to use the power
That's inside you all along
That will try to do you wrong
On the day that you were born
Your mama cried and you were free
So why should you just sit back
and live a life of misery?
but don't you know it's rising time?
No more begging, bowing down,
you've got to let your freedom
Nobody, baby, it's plain to see
when the man makes you bleed?
You better get yourself together girl,
You're not living in the past girl,
you're not living in the past
You got to get inside yourself,
you got to search inside yourself
seek inside yourself girl
Feel the loving, feel the sweet loving
You gotta feel it in your soul