Rage Against The Machine
Wake Up
Rage Against The Machine (1992)
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Radically poetic standing with the fury A --3-5!----5!----3--3---4--
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 you a dose but it will never come close
To the rage, built up inside of me
Fist in the air, in the land of hypocricy A --3-5!--
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 (what?) the judges (what?) the feds F5 contre-temps x 7 \
Networks at work, keeping 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 A --3-5!-- \
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With poetry my mind I flex
Flip like Wilson, vocals never lacking that finesse
Who I got to, who I got to do to wake you up?
To shake you up, to break the structure up D --------3-3/5!--5-5-6!--3-3-5----
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'Cause blood still flows in the gutter
I'm like taking photos, mad boy kicks open the shutter
Set the groove then stick and move like I was Cassius
Rep the stutter step and left a bomb upon the fascists A --3-5!--
Yeah, the several federal man
Who pulled schemes on the dream and put it to an end
You better beware of retribution with mind war
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Networks at work, keeping people calm
You know they murdered X and tried to blame it on Islam
He turned the power to the have-nots
And then came the shot A --3-5\-- \
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3-12: w/ D5 0 x 4.5 & Black Nationalism
He may be a brave contender for this position
But should he abandon his supposed obedience
To the White liberal doctrine of non-violence
And embrace Black Nationalism
Through counter-intelligence, it should be possible
To pinpoint potential troublemakers and neutralize them
Through counter-intelligence, it should be possible
To pinpoint potential troublemakers and neutralize them
And neutralize them
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How long? Not long, 'cause what you reap is what you sow
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