Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine
 
1.Bombtrack
2.Killing In The Name
3.Take The Power Back
4.Settle For Nothing
5.Bullet In The Head
6.Know Your Enemy
7.Wake Up
8.Fistful Of Steel
9.Township Rebellion
10.Freedom
 
 
 
BOMBTRACK
 ===================
It's just another bombtrack
And suckas be thinkin' that they can fade this
'Cause I'm inclined to stoop down
Hand out some beat-downs
Cold runna train on punk ho's that
Think they run the game
But I learned to burn that bridge and delete
Those who complete at a level that's obsolete
Instead I warm my hands on the flames of the flag
As I recall out downfall
And the business that burned us all
See through the news and views that twist reality
Enough
I call the bluff
Manifest destiny
 
Landlords and power whores
On my people they took turns
Dispute the suits ignite
And then watch 'em burn
 
The thoughts of a militant mind
Hardline, hardline after, hardline
 
Landlords and power whores
On my people they took turns
Dispute the suits ignite
And then watch 'em burn
 
Chorus:
Burn, burn, yes ya gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes ya gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes ya gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes ya gonna burn
 
Another funky radical bombtrack
Started as a sketch in my notebook
But now dope hkooks make punks take another look
My thoughts ya hear and ya begin to lear
That ya card will get pulled if ya interiere
With the thoughts of a miliant mind
Hardline, hardline after hardline
 
Landlords and power whores
On my people they took turns
Dispute the suits ignite
And then watch 'em burn
 
 
 
 
 
     KILLING IN THE NAME
     ================================
     Killing in the name of!
 
 
     Some of those that work forces
     Are the same that burn crosses
     Some of those that work forces
     Are the same that burn crosses
     Some of those that work forces
     Are the same that burn crosses
     Some of those that work forces
     Are the same that burn crosses
 
 
     Killing in the name of
     Killing in the name of
 
 
     Now you do what they told ya
     Now you do what they told ya
     Now you do what they told ya
     Now you do what they told ya
     Now you do what they told ya
     Now you do what they told ya
     Now you do what they told ya
     Now you do what they told ya
     Now you do what they told ya
     Now you do what they told ya
     Now you do what they told ya
     Now you do what they told ya
 
 
     Those who died
     Are justified
     For having a badge
     Take your chosen right
     Justify
     Those that died
     For having a badge
     Take your chosen right
 
 
     Those who died
     Are justified
     For having a badge
     Take your chosen right
     Justify
     Those that died
     For having a badge
     Take your chosen right
 
 
     Some of those that work forces
     Are the same that burn crosses
     Some of those that work forces
     Are the same that burn crosses
     Some of those that work forces
     Are the same that burn crosses
     Some of those that work forces
     Are the same that burn crosses
 
 
     Killing in the name of
     Killing in the name of
 
 
     Now you do what they told ya
     Now you do what they told ya
     Now you do what they told ya
     Now you do what they told ya
     Now you do what they told ya [now you're under control]
     Now you do what they told ya [now you're under control]
     Now you do what they told ya [now you're under control]
     Now you do what they told ya [now you're under control]
     Now you do what they told ya [now you're under control]
     Now you do what they told ya [now you're under control]
     Now you do what they told ya [now you're under control]
     Now you do what they told ya [now you're under control]
 
 
     Those who died
     Are justified
     For having a badge
     Take your chosen right
     Justify
     Those that died
     For having a badge
     Take your chosen right
 
 
     Those who died
     Are justified
     For having a badge
     Take your chosen right
     Justify
     Those that died
     For having a badge
     Take your chosen right
 
 
     Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me
     Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me
     Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me
     Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me
     Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me
     Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me
     Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me
     Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me
     Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me
     Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me
     Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me
     Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me
     Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me
     Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me
     Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me
     Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me
 
 
     Mutha fucka'!!
 
 
 
 
 
     TAKE THE POWER BACK
     ===================
     In the right light, study becomes insight
     But the system that dissed us
     Teaches us to read and write
 
 
     So-called facts are fraud
     They want us to allege and pledge
     And bow down to their god
     Lost the culture, the culture lost
     Spun our minds and through time
     Ignorance has taken over
     We gotta take the power back
     Bam, here's the plan
     Mother fuck uncle sam
     Step back, I know who I am
     Raise up your, I'll drop the style and clear
     It's the beats and lyrics they fear
     The rage is relentless
     We need a movement with a quickless
     You are the witness of change
     And to counteract
 
 
     We gotta take the power back
 
 
     Chorus:
     We gotta take the power back
     We gotta take the power back
 
 
     The present curriculums
     I put my fist in em
     Eurocentric every last one of 'em
     See right through the red, white and
     Blue disguise
     With lecture, I puncture the
     Structure of lies
     Installed in our minds and attepting
     To hold us back
     We've got to take it back
     'Cause holes in out spirit are causin' tears and fears
     One-sided stories for years and years and years
     I'm ionferior? Who's inferior?
     Yea, we needa check the interior
     Of the system who cares about only one culture
     And that is why
     We gotta take the power back
 
 
     Chorus
 
 
     The teacher stands in front of the class
     But the lesson plan he can't recall
     The student's eyes don't perceive the lies
     Bouncing off every fucking wall
     His composure is well kept
     I guess he fears playing the fool
     The complacent students sit and listen to the
     Bullshit that he learned in school
 
 
     Europe ain't my rope to swing on
     Can't learn a thing from it
     Yet we hand from it
     Gotta get it, gotta get it together then
     Like the mother fuckin' weathermen
     To expose and close the doors on those who try
     To strangle and mangle the truth
     'Cause the circle of hatred continues unless we react
     We gotta take the power back
 
 
     Chorus
 
 
 
 
 
     SETTLE FOR NOTHING
     ==================
     A jail cell is freedom from the pain in my home
     Hatred passed on, passed on and passed on
     A world of violence rage
     But it's one that I can recognise
     Having never seen the color of my father's eyes
     Yes, I dwell in hell but it's a hell that I can grip
     I tried to grip my family
     But I slipped
     To escape from the pain an
     Existence mundane
     I gotta 9, a sign, a set and now I gotta name
 
 
     Read my writing on the wall
     No one's here to catch me when I fall
     But death is on my side
     Suicide
 
 
     A jail cell is freedom from the pain in my home
     Hatred passed on, passed on and passed on
     A world of violence rage
     But it's one that I can recognise
     Having never seen the color of my father's eyes
     Yes, I dwell in hell but it's a he that I can grip
     I tried to grip my family
     But I slipped
     To escape from the pain an existence mundane
     I gotta 9, a sign, a set and now I gotta name
 
 
     Read my writing on the wall
     No one's here to catch me when I fall
     Caught between my culture and the system
     Genocide
 
 
     Read my writing on the wall
     No one's here to catch me when I fall
     If ignorance is bliss
     Then knock the smile off my face
 
 
     If we don't take action now
     We settle for nothing later
     We'll settle for nothing now
     And we'll settle for nothing later
 
 
 
 
 
     BULLET IN THE HEAD
     ==================
     This time the bullet cold rocket ya
     A yellow ribbon instead of a swastika
     Nothin' proper about ya propaganda
     Fools follow rules when the set commands ya
     They said it was blue
     When the blood was red
     That's how you got a bullet blasted through ya head
 
 
     Blasted through ya head
     Blasted through ya head
 
 
     I give a shout out to the living dead
     Who stood and watched as the feds cold centralized
     So setence on the screen
     You was mesmerlized
     Cellular phone soundin' a death tone
     Corporations cold
     Turn ya to stone before ya realize
 
 
     They load the clip in omnicolor
     They pack the 9, they fire it at prime time
     Sleeping gas, every home was like alcatraz
     And mutha fuckas lost their minds
 
 
     Just victims of the in-house drive-by
     They say jump, you say how high
 
 
     They load the clip in omnicolor
     They pack the 9, they fire it at prime time
     Sleeping gas, every home was like alcatraz
     And mutha fuckas lost their minds
 
 
     No escape from the mass mind rape
     Play it again hack and then rewind the tape
     Play it again and again and again
     Until ya mind is locked in
     Beleivin' all the lies that they're tellin' yea
     Buying all the products that they're selling ya
     They say jump
     Ya say how high
     Ya brain dead
     Ya gotta fuckin' bullet in ya head
 
 
     Just victims of the in-house drive-by
     They say jump, you say how high
 
 
     Ya standin' in line
     Believin' the lies
     Ya bowin' down to the flag
     Ya gotta bullet in ya head
 
 
 
 
 
     KNOW YOUR ENEMY
     ===============
     Born with insight and a raised fist
     A witness to the slit wrist
     As we move into '92
     Still in a room without a view
     Ya got to know
     Ya got to know
     That when I say go, go, go
     Amp up and amplity
     Defy
     I'm a brother with a furious mind
     Action must be taken
     We don't need the key
     We'll break in
 
 
     Something must be done
     About vengeance, a badge, and a gun
     'Cause I'll rip the mike, rip the stage, rip the system
     I was born to rage against 'em
 
 
     Fist in ya face, in the place
     And I'll drop the style clearly
     Know your enemy
 
 
     Word is born
     Fight the war, fuck the norm
     Now I got no patience
     So sick of complacence
     With the defiance
     The mind of a revolutionary
     So clear the lane
     The finger to the land of chains
     What? The land of the free?
     Whoever told you that is your enemy
 
 
     Something must be done
     About vengeance, a badge, and a gun
     'Cause I'll rip the mike, rip the
     Stage, rip the system
     I was born to rage against 'em
 
 
     Now action must be taken
     We don't need any key
     We'll break in
 
 
     I've got no patience now
     So sick of complacence now
     I've got no patience now
     So sick of complacence now
     Sick of sick of sick of sick of sick of you
     Time has come to pay
 
 
     Yes I know my enemies
     They're the teachers who taught me to fight me
     Compromise, conformity, assimilation, submission
     Ignorance, hypocrisy, brutality, the elite
     All of which are american dreams
 
 
 
 
 
     WAKE UP
     =======
     Althought ya try to discredit
     Ya still never edit
     The needle, I'll thread it
     Radically, poetic
     Standin' with the fury that they had
     And like e-double, I'm mad
     Still knee-deep in the system's shit
     Hoover, he was a body remover
     I'll give ya a dose
     but it'll never come close
     To the rage built up inside of me
     Fist in the air, in the land of hypocrisy
 
 
     Movements come and movements go
     Leaders speak, movements cease
     When their heads are flown
     'Cause all these punks
     Got bullets in their heads
     Departments of police, the judges, the feds
     Networks at work, keepin' people calm
 
 
     You know they went after king
     When he spoke out on vietnam
     He turned the power to the have-nots
     And then came the shot
 
 
     Wit' poetry, my mind I flex
     Flip like, wilson, vocals never lackin', dat finesse
     Whadda I have to do to wake ya up
     To shake ya up, to break the structure up
     'Cause this blood still flows in the gutter
     I'm like takin' photos
     Mad boy kicks open the shutter
     Set the groove
     Then I stick and move like I was cassius
     Rep the stutter step
     Then bomb a left upon the facists
     Yea, the several federal men
     Who pulled schemes on the dream
     And put it to an end
 
 
     Ya betta beware
     Of retribution with mind war
     20/20 visions and murals with metaphors
 
 
     The networks at work, keepin' people calm
 
 
     Ya know they murdered x
     And tried to blame it on islam
     He turned the power to the have-nots
     And then came the shot
 
 
     What was the price on his head
 
 
 
 
 
     FISTFUL OF STEEL
     ================
     Silence
     Something about silence makes me sick
     'Cause silence can be violent
     Sorta like a slit wrist
 
 
     If the vibe was suicide
     Then you would push da button
     But if ya bowin' down
     Then let me do the cuttin'
 
 
     Some speak the sounds
     But speak in silent voices
     Like radio is silent
     Though it fills the air with noises
     Its transmissions bring, submission,
     As ya mold to the unreal
     Mad boy grips the microphone
     Wit' a fistful of steel
 
 
     Chorus:
     Fistful of steel
     Fistful of steel
     Fistful of steel
     Fistful of steel
 
 
     Yes, it's time to flow like the fluid in ya veins
     If ya will it, I will spill it
     And ya out just as quick as ya came
     Not a silence one
     But a defiant one
     Never a normal one
     'Cause I'm the bastard son
     With the visions of the move
     Vocals not to soothe
     But to ignite and put in flight
     My sense of militance
     Groovin', playin' this game called survival
     Status the elite, the enemy, the rival
     The silent, sheep, slippin', riffin', trippin'
     Give ya a glimpse of the reality I'm grippin'
     Steppin' into the jam and I'm slammin' like shaquile
     Mad boy grips the microphone
     Wit' a fistful of steel
 
 
     Chorus
 
 
     A 44 full of bullets
     Face full pale
     Eyes full of empty
     A stare full of nails
     The roulette ball rolls alone on the wheel
     A mind full of fire
     And a fistful of steel
 
 
     If the vibe was suicide
     Then you would push da button
     But if ya bowin' down
     Then let me do the cuttin'
 
 
 
 
 
     TOWNSHIP REBELLION
     ==================
     Rebel, rebel and yell
     Locked in a cell
     Yes, the structure's a cell
     Mad is the story I tell
     How long can we wait
     Come on, seein' what's at stake
     Action for reaction
     If your mind's in a somewhat complacent state
     Get a check-up
     This is a stick up
     Out freedom of your life
     I wish I could be peaceful
     But there can be no sequel
 
 
     Chorus:
     Now freedom must be fundamental
     In johannesburg so south central
     On the mic, 'cause someone should tell 'em
     To kick in the township rebellion
 
 
     Yes, so you thought ya could get with the hardlines
     That fill your mind
     The thoughts, battles fought
     And lessons taught
     And I'll display the fitness
     And flip like a gymnast
     Raise my fist and resist
     Asleep, though we stand in the midst
     Of the war
     Gotta get mine
     Gotta get mine
     Keepin' the mic warm against the norm
     'Cause what does it offer me
     I think often it's nothin' but a
     Coffin
 
 
     Gotta get wreck
     'Til out necks never swing on a rope
     From here to the cape of no hope
 
 
     Chorus
 
 
     Why stand
     On a silent platform
     Fight the war
     Fuck the norm
 
 
 
 
 
     FREEDOM
     =======
     Solo, I'm a soloist on a solo list
     All live, never on a floppy disk
     Inka, inka, bottle of ink
     Paintings of rebellion
     Drawn up by the thoughts I think
 
 
     It's set up like a deck of cards
     They're sending us to early graves
     For all the diamonds
     They'll use a pair of clubs to beat the spades
     With poetry I paint the pictures that hit
     More like the murals that fit
     Don't turn away
     Get in front of it
 
 
     Chorus:
     Brotha did ya forget ya name
     Did ya, lose it on the wall
     Playin' tic-tac-toe
 
 
     Yo, check the diagonal
     Three brothers gone
     Come on
     Doesn't that make it three in a row
     Anger is a gift
 
 
     Chorus
 
 
     Yo, check the diagonal
     Three million gone
     Come on
     'Cause ya know they're counting backwards to zero
 
 
     Enviroment
     The enviroment exceeding on the level
     Of our unconsciousness
     For example
     What does the billboard say
     Come and play, come and play
     Forget about the movement
     Anger is a gift
 
 
     Freedom, freedom, yea right
 
 


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