Artist: Rage Against The Machine

Submitted by Annie.

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Mic Check

I be walkin god like a dog
My narrative fearless
Word war returns to burn
Like Baldwin home from Paris, Uh
Like steel from a furnace
I was born landless
Yes its tha native son
Born of Zapatas guns
Stroll through the shanties
And tha cities remains
Same bodies buried hungry
But with different last names
The vultures robbin everything
Leave nothing but chains
Pick a point on the globe
Yes tha pictures tha same
Theres a bank, theres a church, a myth and a hearse
A mall and a loan, a child dead at birth
Theres a widow pig parrot
A rebel to tame
A whitehooded judge
A syringe and a vein
And the riot be the rhyme of the unheard

What ya say? What ya say? What ya say? What?
Calm like a bomb

This aint subliminal
Feel the critical mass approach horizon
Tha pulse of the condemned
Sound off Americas demise
Tha anti-myth rhythm rock shocker
Yes I spit fire
Hope lies in the smoldering rubble of empires
Yes back through tha shanties and tha cities remains
Same bodies buried hungry, uh-huh
With different last names, uh-huh
The vultures robbin everyone
Leave nothing but chains
Pick a point here at home
Yes the pictures tha same
Theres a field full of slaves
Some corn and some debt
Theres a ditch full of bodies
Tha check for the rent
Theres a tap, tha phone, tha silence of stone
The numb black screen
That be feelin like home
And the riot be the rhyme of the unheard

What ya say? What ya say? What ya say? What?

Calm like a bomb

Theres a mass without roofs
A prison to fill
Theres a countrys soul that reads post no bills
Theres a strike and a line of cops outside of tha mill
Theres a right to obey
And a right to kill

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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