Dead Prez - Propaganda Lyrics
Intro: (news snippets)Let me now turn, to our program for the future...The economy right now, is extremely supportive of the president and hisPoliciesFbi scientists have found chemical traces, consistent with a bomb or aMissle, on a piece of wreckage...Police using clubs and tear gas against demonstrators...They called me a mother -(bleeped out)-ing so-and-so...and a whiteFacist...like they said, youre getting some of your own medicine...Singing:Telling lies, to our childrenTelling lies, to our childrenTelling lies, to our babiesOnly truth, can take us...Verse 1:You cant fool all the people all of the timeBut if you fool the right ones, then the rest will fall behindTell me whos got control of your mind? your world view?Is it the news or the movie youre taking your girl to? (uh)Know what Im sayin cause uncle sam got a planIf you examine what they tellin us then you will understandWhat they plantin in the seeds of the next generationFeeding our children miseducationNo one knows if theres ufos or any life on marsOr what they do when they up in the starsBecause I dont believe a word of what the president saidHe filling our head with lies got us hypnotisedWhen he be speaking in cold words about crime and povertyDrugs, welfare, prisons, guns and robberyIt really means us, theres no excuse for the slanderBut whats good for the goose, is still good for the ganderSee...Chorus:I dont believe bob marley died from cancer31 years ago I woulda been a pantherThey killed huey cause they knew he had the answerThe views that you see in the news is propagandaSinging:Telling lies, to our childrenTelling lies, to our childrenTelling lies, to our babiesOnly truth, can take us...Verse 2:I dont want no computer chip in my armI dont wanna die by a nuclear bombI say we all rush the pentagon, pull out gunsAnd grab the intercom, my first words will be I believeMan made god, outta ignorance and fearIf God made man, then why the hell would he put us here?I thought hes supposed to be the all lovingThe same God who let hitler put the jews in the ovenWe dont fall for the regular shit, they try to feed usAll this half-ass leadership, flippin positionThey turn politcian and shut the hell up and follow traditionFor your tv screen, is telling lies to your visionEvery channel got some brainwashed cop shit to watchRunning up in niggas cribs claiming that they heard shotsIts a plot, but busta can you tell me whos greedier?Big corporations, the pigs or the media?Sign of the times, terrorism on the riseCommercial airplanes, falling out the sky like fliesMake me wonder what secrets went down with bob brown (? )Who burnt churches to the ground with no evidence found?Its not coincidence, its been too many studied incidentsIt coulda been the klan who put that bomb at the olympicsBut it probably was the fbi, deep at the callCuz if they make us all panic then they can start martial lawChorus:I dont believe bob marley died from cancer31 years ago I woulda been a pantherThey killed huey cause they knew he had the answerThe views that you see in the news is propagandaI dont believe bob marley died from cancer31 years ago I woulda been a pantherThey killed huey cause they knew he had the answerThe views that you see in the news is mutha*****in propagandaSinging:Police is telling lies fooling millionsWhat are they teaching our kids in these school buildings?Televised, enterprised in all the killingControlling our lives, this aint livingNo this aint livingChant:Fbi, ciaAtf, kkkIrs, tntCbs, nbcFbi, ciaAtf, kkkIrs, tntCbs, nbcSinging:Telling lies, to our childrenTelling lies, to our childrenTelling lies, to our babiesOnly truth, can take us...News snippet:Uh, we view each other uh, with uh, a great love and a great understandingAnd that weTry to expand this to the general, uh, black population and also people,Oppressed people all over the world, and, I think that uh, we differ fromUhmm... uh, some other groups simply because we understand the system betterThan uh, most uh, groups understand the system, and uh, with thisRealisation, uh, we attempt to form a strong political base based in theCommunity with the only strength that we have and thats the strength of uh,A potentially destructive force if we dont get freedom.
