TakethePowerBack

Take the Power Back (Explicit) - Rage Against The Machine

Lyrics by：Zack de la Rocha

Composed by：Rage Against The Machine

Arranged by：Rage Against The Machine

Produced by：Rage Against The Machine/GGGarth

Crank the music up

Bring that shit in uh

Yeah the movement's in motion with massive militant poetry

Now check this out uh

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

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

Yeah we gotta take the power back

Come on come on

Yeah we gotta take the power back

Ayo check we're gonna have to break it

Break it break it down

Aw shit

Uh

And like this

Uh come on

Yeah bring it back the other way

Uh

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