MKLVFKWR (Make Love Fuck War) Lyrics

[Intro: Flavor Flav & Chuck D]
Moby PE, Moby PE, Moby PE
Just gonna drop this on one of those Moby Beats
Moby PE, Moby PE, Moby PE
This is Chuck D, check it out
Moby PE, Moby PE, Moby PE
Here we go, come on!
Yeah

[Hook: Chuck D]
Put your hands in the air y'all
Alright y'all, COME ON!!
Put your hands in the air y'all
Alright now, COME ON!!
Put your hands in the air y'all
Alright y'all, COME ON!!
Put your hands in the air y'all
ALRIGHT NOW!!

[Hook: Chuck D]
Fingers in the air, like you really give a damn
Peace sign up, let me hear you say: YEAH!!
Power to The People, put your hands in the air
Peace sign high, like you really do care
Fingers in the air, like you really give a damn
Peace sign up, let me hear you say: YEAH!!
Power to The People, put your hands in the air
Peace sign high, like you really do care
COME ON!!
[Hook: Chuck D]
Put your hands in the air y'all
Alright y'all, COME ON!!
Put your hands in the air y'all
ALRIGHT NOW!!

[Verse One: Chuck D]
Rather be sitting just to get in it
Power to the people not the governments
Capitalists, communists and terrorists
Swear to God, I don't know the difference
Making new slaves out of the immigrants
Want to know where all the money went
Another trillion spent by the government
Here the bomb go, sent by the presidents
POWER TO THE PEOPLE, CAUSE THE PEOPLE WANT PEACE!!
POWER TO THE PEOPLE, CAUSE THE PEOPLE WANT PEACE!!
POWER TO THE PEOPLE, CAUSE THE PEOPLE WANT PEACE!!
POWER TO THE PEOPLE, CAUSE THE PEOPLE WANT PEACE!!
COME ON!!

[Hook: Chuck D]
Put your hands in the air y'all
Alright y'all, COME ON!!
Put your hands in the air y'all
ALRIGHT NOW!!
[Verse Two: Chuck D]
Tell the leaders, they got to feed us
Grand Theft Oil, gonna bleed us
New World Order, doesn't need us
Call for peace, better heed us
Dictators, Human Haters
Hand on the bomb, Mass Debators
Finger on the button, infiltrators
MAKE LOVE, FUCK WAR, PEACE WILL SAVE US!
Yeah, COME ON!!

[Hook: Chuck D]
Put your hands in the air y'all
Alright y'all, COME ON!!
Put your hands in the air y'all
Alright now, COME ON!!
Put your hands in the air y'all
Alright y'all, COME ON!!
Put your hands in the air y'all
ALRIGHT NOW!!
Break it now, break it now

[Hook: Flavor Flav]
Check one two..
We want everybody to put this sign up in the air
And at the count of three
Everybody tell me what this sign means: PEACE!!
COME ON!!
[Hook: Chuck D]
Put your hands in the air y'all
Alright y'all, COME ON!!
Put your hands in the air y'all
Alright now, COME ON!!
Put your hands in the air y'all
Alright y'all, COME ON!!
Put your hands in the air y'all
ALRIGHT NOW!! COME ON!!
Put your hands in the air y'all
Alright y'all, COME ON!!
Put your hands in the air y'all
Alright now, COME ON!!
Put your hands in the air y'all
Alright y'all, COME ON!!
Put your hands in the air y'all
ALRIGHT NOW!!
POWER TO THE PEOPLE, CAUSE THE PEOPLE WANT PEACE!!
POWER TO THE PEOPLE, CAUSE THE PEOPLE WANT PEACE!!
POWER TO THE PEOPLE, CAUSE THE PEOPLE WANT PEACE!!
POWER TO THE PEOPLE, CAUSE THE PEOPLE WANT PEACE!!

[Outro: Overvoice]
They are not really aware
That they know some shit is going on in this country somewhere
There is a lot of people don't know where is that..
The thinks that the black people doing it, shit!

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“MKLVFKWR"— aka "Make Love, Fuck War"— is a collaboration between Public Enemy and electronic musician Moby. Originally released as a standalone single in 2004, Public Enemy made it the fifth track on their 2005 album New Whirl Odor.

Originally recorded for a compilation tie-in with the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, when the anti-war sentiments of the track became known, it was cut loose and released as a single. Of the track’s origin, Moby said:

[The producers of the Olympics album] approached me and asked if I’d like to do something with Public Enemy. Back when I used to DJ in the mid- to late-Eighties, I played Public Enemy all the time. I’ve been a fan of theirs since forever, so of course I said yes.

Moby created the music for “Make Love F*ck War,” while PE’s Chuck D and Flavor Flav wrote the lyrics, inspired by the political turmoil of the past year. Moby attempted an Old Skool beat to complement the duo’s lyrics. “I was trying to go for that late-Eighties Bomb Squad production sound,” he says. “A few of my friends said, ‘Wow it sounds really dated.’ [Laughs] I said, ‘Well yeah, that’s the point.’ I didn’t want to make some kind of Neptunes-ish, slick R&B track with Chuck D on it. I wanted to make something that sounded like a building falling down.”

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July 2, 2004
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