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Artist: Rage Against The Machine
Canonical path: /rage-against-the-machine/take-the-power-back
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Take The Power Back
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Take The Power Back
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Bring that shit in, ugh
The movement's in motion with massive militant poetry
Now check this out, ugh
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 into their God
Lost the culture, the culture lost
Spun our minds and through time
Ignorance has taken over
We gotta take the power back
Bam, here's the plan
Mother fuck 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 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
We gotta take the power back
C'mon! C'mon!
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 are causing tears and fears
One-sided stories for years and years and years
I'm inferior? Who's inferior?
Yeah, you needa check the interior
Of the system who cares about only one culture
And that is why we gotta take the power back
We gotta take the power back
C'mon! C'mon!
We gotta take the power back
Aiyyo check, we're gonna have to break it, break it, break it down
Aw, shit!
And like this!
Ugh!
C'mon!
Yeah!
Bring it back the other way!
Ugh!
The teacher stands in front of the class
But the lesson plan he can't recall
The students eyes don't perceive the lies
Bouncing off every fucking wall
His compusure is well kept
I guess he fears playing the fool
The complacent students sit
And listen to the bullshit that he 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 motherfucking weathermen
To 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
We gotta take the power back
C'mon! C'mon!
We gotta take the power back
No more lies
No more lies
No more lies
No more lies
No more lies
No more lies
No more lies
No more lies
Ugh!
Yeah!
Take it back y'all!
Take it back, a-take it back
A-take it back y'all! C'mon!
Take it back y'all!
Take it back, a-take it back
A-take it back y'all! C'mon!
Ugh!
Yeah!
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