Artist: Rage Against The Machine

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Take The Power Back

Spoken: 'Crank the music up'

Bring that shit in! Uggh!
Yeah, the movement's in motion with mass militant poetry
Now check this out...uggh!
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
Yo, we gotta take the power back!
Bam! Here's the plan
Motherfuck Uncle Sam
Step back, I know who I am
Raise up your ear, I'll drop the style and clear
It's the beats and the lyrics they fear
The rage is relentless
We need a movement with a quickness
You are the witness of change
And to counteract
We gotta take the power back

Yeah, we gotta take the power back
Come on, come on!
We gotta take the power back

The present curriculum
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 attempting
To hold us back
We've got to take it back
'Cause holes in our spirit causin' tears and fears
One-sided stories for years and years and years
I'm inferior? Who's inferior?
Yea, we need to check the interior
Of the system that cares about only one culture
And that is why
We gotta take the power back

Yeah, we gotta take the power back
Come on, come on!
We gotta take the power back

Hey yo check, we're gonna have to break it, break it, break it down
Awww shit!
Uggh!
And like this...uggh!
Come on, yeah! Bring it back the other way!
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
Bouning off every fucking wall
His composure is well kept
I guess he fears playing the fool
The complacent students sit and listen to some of that
Bullshit that he learned in school

Europe ain't my rope to swing on
Can't learn a thing from it
Yet we hang from it
Gotta get it, gotta get it together then
Like the motherfuckin' 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

Yeah, we gotta take the power back
Come on, come on!
We gotta take the power back

No more lies (8 times, building to a crescendo)
Uggh!
Yeah!
Take it back Joe
Take it back, a-take it back
A-take it back Joe, come on!
Take it back Joe
Take it back, a-take it back
A-take it back Joe, come on!
Uggh!
Yeah!

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2. Autologic
3. Beautiful World
4. Blacksteel: In the Hour Of Chaos
5. Bombtrack
6. Born As Ghosts
7. Born of a Broken Man
8. Bullet In The Head
9. Bullet in your head
10. Bulls On Parade
11. C.I.A. (Criminals in Action)
12. Calm Like A Bomb
13. Clear The Lane
14. Darkness
15. Darkness (of Greed)
16. Down On The Street
17. Down rodeo
18. Fistful Of Steel
19. Freedom
20. Fuck tha Police
21. Fuck The Police
22. Guerilla Radio
23. Hadda Be Playing On The Jukebox
24. Hey
25. How I Could Just Kill A Man
26. I’m Housin
27. In My Eyes
28. Kick Out The Jams
29. Killing In The Name
30. Know Your Enemy
31. Maria
32. Memory Of The Dead
33. Mic Check
34. Microphone Fiend
35. New Millenium Homes
36. No Shelter
37. People Of The Sun
38. Pistol Grip Pump
39. Renegades Of Funk
40. Revolver
41. Roll Right
42. Settle For Nothing
43. Sleep Now in the Fire
44. Snakecharmer
45. Take The Power Back
46. Testify
47. The Ghost Of Tom Joad
48. Tire Me
49. Township Rebellion
50. Vietnow
51. Voice of the Voiceless
52. Wake Up
53. War Within a Breath
54. Wind Below
55. Without A Face
56. Year Of Tha Boomerang
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