Artist: Rage Against The Machine

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Wake Up

Come on!
Uggh!
Come on, although ya try to discredit
Ya still never edit
The needle, I'll thread it
Radically poetic
Standin' with the fury that they had in '66
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

Yeah!

Yeah, back in this...
Wit' poetry, my mind I flex
Flip like Wilson, vocals never lackin' dat finesse
Whadda I got to, whadda I got to do to wake ya up
To shake ya up, to break the structure up
'Cause blood still flows in the gutter
I'm like takin' photos
Mad boy kicks open the shutter
Set the groove
Then stick and move like I was Cassius
Rep the stutter step
Then bomb a left upon the fascists
Yea, the several federal men
Who pulled schemes on the dream
And put it to an end

Ya better beware
Of retribution with mind war
20/20 visions and murals with metaphors

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

Uggh!
What was the price on his head?
What was the price on his head!

I think I heard a shot (5 times)
I think I heard, I think I heard a shot

Background: 'Black nationalism'
'He may be a real contender for this position should he
abandon his supposed obediance to white liberal doctrine
of non-violence...and embrace black nationalism'
'Through counter-intelligence it should be possible to
pinpoint potential trouble-makers...'
'And neutralise them'

Wake up! Wake up! Wake up! Wake up!
Wake up! Wake up! Wake up! Wake up!

Spoken: "How long? Not long, 'cause
what you reap is what you sow."

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Other Songs by this Artist

1. Ashes In The Fall
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
57. Zapata’s Blood