Rage Against the Machine - Wake Up

[00:37.85] Come on [00:40.30] [00:59.32] Come on, although you try to discredit [01:02.42] You'll still never edit [01:03.94] The needle, I'll thread it [01:05.68] Radically poetic [01:06.05] Standing with the fury that they had in '66 [01:10.08] And like E-Double, I'm mad [01:11.54] Still knee-deep in the system's shit [01:13.75] Hoover, he was a body remover [01:16.19] I'll give you a dose [01:17.39] But it will never come close [01:18.75] To the rage built up inside of me [01:21.54] Fist in the air, in the land of hypocricy [01:24.81] Movements come and movements go [01:27.03] Leaders speak, movements cease [01:28.66] When their heads are flown [01:30.45] 'Cause all these punks got bullets in their heads [01:33.15] Departments of police (what?) the judges (what?) the feds [01:36.00] Networks at work, keeping people calm [01:38.36] You know they went after King [01:39.80] When he spoke out on Vietnam [01:41.89] He turned the power to the have-nots [01:44.56] And then came the shot [01:47.92] [01:57.08] Yeah [01:59.46] [02:04.57] Yeah, back in this [02:07.33] [02:09.82] With poetry, my mind I flex [02:12.02] Flip like Wilson, vocals never lacking that finesse [02:15.57] Who I got to, who I got to do to wake you up? [02:18.26] To shake you up, to break the structure up [02:20.94] 'Cause blood still flows in the gutter [02:23.16] I'm like taking photos [02:24.81] Mad boy kicks open the shutter [02:26.76] Set the groove [02:27.68] Then stick and move like I was Cassius [02:29.56] Rep the stutter step and left a bomb upon the fascists [02:32.35] Yeah, the several federal man [02:34.73] Who pulled schemes on the dream [02:36.44] And put it to an end [02:37.80] You better beware [02:39.08] Of retribution with mind war [02:40.95] 20-20 visions and murals with metaphors [02:43.79] Networks at work keeping people calm [02:46.03] You know they murdered X [02:47.48] And tried to blame it on Islam [02:49.21] He turned the power to the have-nots [02:52.86] And then came the shot [02:56.26] [03:34.55] What was the price on his head? [03:37.73] [03:40.06] What was the price on his head? [03:45.72] I think I heard a shot [03:48.47] [03:51.25] I think I heard a shot [03:53.88] [03:57.03] I think I heard a shot [03:59.60] [04:02.52] I think I heard a shot [04:05.28] [04:14.54] I think I heard a shot [04:17.05] [04:24.50] I think I heard, I think I heard a shot [04:28.76] [04:38.20] (He may be a real contender for this position) [04:41.01] (Should he abandon his opposed obediance to the white-liberal doctrine of non-violence) [04:46.02] (And embrace black nationalism) [04:49.33] (Through counter-intelligence it should be possible to pinpoint potential trouble-makers and neutralize them) [04:55.79] (Through counter-intelligence it should be possible to pinpoint potential trouble-makers and neutralize them) [05:02.09] (And neutralize them, and neutralize them) [05:05.77] Wake up [05:08.75] Wake up [05:11.70] Wake up [05:14.43] Wake up [05:17.44] Wake up [05:20.26] Wake up [05:23.19] Wake up [05:25.78] Wake up [05:29.83] [05:52.40] How long? Not long, 'cause what you reap is what you sow [05:57.73]