Nina Simone's Cinnaman

I could cry power is the mission statement of the song. It's basically to cry power into the face of institutionalised power. Nina Simone recorded a version on her 1965 album, Pastel Blues. When I was a kid, discovering soul music and jazz music for the first time, I used to listen to that before class at like 14-15. Just fascinated that that's an eight or nine minute piece of music and that's one take. And then there is that literal Nina Simone crying of power.