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This song is performed by Rage Against The Machine and appears on the album Rage Against The Machine (1992).
View the Gracenote version of these lyrics here.
This song is featured in the movie The Matrix (1999).
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Come on
Ugh

Although ya try to discredit,
Ya still never edit.
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 could 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 (the feds).
Networks at work, keepin' 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.

Yeah.
Yeah, back in this.

With poetry, my mind I flex,
Flip like Wilson, vocals never lackin' dat finesse.
Who I got ta, who 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.
Ya betta beware,
Of 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.

Ugh!
What was the price on his head?
What was the price on his head?

I think I heard a shot.
I think I heard a shot.
I think I heard a shot.
I think I heard a shot.

I think I heard a shot.
I think I heard, I think I heard a shot.

Black nationalism.
He may be a brave contender for this position,
Should he abandon his supposed obedience to the
white liberal doctrine of non-violence,
And embrace black nationalism.
Through counter intellence it should be possible to pinpoint potential
trouble-makers and neutralize them.
Through counter intellence it should be possible to pinpoint potential
trouble-makers and neutralize them.
And neutralize them.
And neutralize them.
And neutralize them.

WAKE UP.
WAKE UP.
WAKE UP.
WAKE UP.
WAKE UP.
WAKE UP.
WAKE UP.
WAKE UP.

Hey!
How long?
Not long.
Cause what you reap
Is what you sow!

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