Rage Against the Machine

1992 Released

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1

Bombtrack

04 : 03

2

Killing in the Name

05 : 13

3

Take the Power Back

05 : 35

4

Settle for Nothing

04 : 47

5

Bullet in the Head

05 : 07

6

Know Your Enemy

04 : 54

7

Wake Up

06 : 04

8

Fistful of Steel

05 : 31

9

Township Rebellion

05 : 24

10

Freedom

06 : 06

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Track Lyrics

Bombtrack Lyrics

[Intro]

Uh

Ayo, it's just another bombtrack, uh

Ayo, it's just another bombtrack, yeah

It goes a one, two, three

Yeah, and it's just another bombtrack

[Verse 1]

And suckers be thinkin' that they can fake this

But I'ma drop it at a higher level

'Cause I'm inclined to stoop down, hand out some beatdowns

Could run a train on punk fools that think they run the game

But I learned to burn that bridge and delete

Those who compete at a level that's obsolete

Instead, I warm my hands upon the flames of the flag

To recall the downfall and the businesses that burnt us all

See through the news and the views that twist reality

Enough, I call the bluff, fuck Manifest Destiny

Landlords and power whores, on my people, they took turns

Dispute the suits, I ignite and then watch 'em burn

[Pre-Chorus]

With the thoughts from a militant mind

Hardline, hardline after hardline

Landlords and power whores, on my people, they took turns

Dispute the suits, I ignite and then watch 'em burn

[Chorus]

Burn, burn, yes, you're gonna burn

Burn, burn, yes, you're gonna burn (Yes, you're gonna)

Burn, burn, yes, you're gonna burn

[Verse 2]

It goes a one, two, three, another funky, radical bombtrack

Started as a sketch in my notebook

And now dope hooks make punks take another look

My thoughts ya hear and ya begin to fear (Fear)

That ya card will get pulled if ya interfere ('Fere)

[Pre-Chorus]

With the thoughts from a militant, militant mind

Hardline, hardline after hardline

Landlords and power whores, on my people, they took turns

Dispute the suits, I ignite and then watch 'em burn

[Chorus]

Burn, burn, yes, you're gonna burn

Burn, burn, yes, you're gonna burn (Yes, you're gonna)

Burn, burn, yes, you're gonna burn

[Instrumental Break]

Rah!

Uh!

Hey, yo, it's just another bombtrack, yeah, uh

Check it out

[Chorus]

Burn, burn, yes, you're gonna burn

Burn, burn, yes, you're gonna burn (Yes, you're gonna)

Burn, burn, yes, you're gonna burn

Burn, burn, yes, you're gonna burn (Yes, you're gonna)

Burn, burn, yes, you're gonna burn

Burn

Take the Power Back Lyrics

[Intro]

(Crank the music up)

Bring that shit in, uh!

Yeah, the movement's in motion with massive militant poetry

Now check this out, uh!

[Verse 1]

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

[Chorus]

Yeah, we gotta take the power back

Come on, come on!

Yeah, we gotta take the power back

[Verse 2]

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

Holes in our spirit causing tears and fears

One-sided stories for years and years and years

I'm inferior? Who's inferior?

Yeah, we need to check the interior

Of the system who cares about only one culture

And that, is why we gotta take the power back

[Chorus]

Yeah, we gotta take the power back

Come on, come on!

Yeah, we gotta take the power back

[Bridge]

Ayo check, we're gonna have to break it

Break it, break it down

Aw shit

[Instrumental Break]

Uh!

And like this

Uh! Come on

Yeah, bring it back the other way

Uh!

[Verse 3]

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 that bullshit that he'd 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)

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]

Yeah, we gotta take the power back

Come on, come on!

Yeah, we gotta take the power back

[Bridge]

No more lies

Uh!

Yeah!

[Outro]

Take it back, y'all

Take it back, a-take it back, a-take it back, y'all

Come on, take it back, y'all

Take it back, a-take it back, a-take it back, y'all

Come on, uh!

Yeah!

Wake Up Lyrics

[Intro]

Come on

Uh

Come on

[Verse 1]

Although ya try to discredit, ya still never read it

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 you a dose but it can 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, (What!) the judges (What!), the feds

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

[Interlude]

Yeah

Yeah, back in this

[Verse 2]

With poetry my mind I flex

"Flip" like Wilson, vocals never lackin' that finesse

What do I got to, what do I got to do to wake you up?

To shake you up, to break the structure up?

'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" then bomb a left upon the fascists

Yeah, several federal men

Who pulled schemes on the dream and put it to an end

You better beware the 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

[Instrumental Break]

[Bridge]

Uh!

What was the price on his head?

What was the price on his head!?

I think I heard a shot

I think I heard, I think I heard a shot

[Bridge]

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, and neutralize them

And neutralize them

[Refrain]

Wake up!

[Guitar Solo]

Yeah!

[Outro]

How long? Not long!

'Cause what you reap is what you sow

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