Rage Against The Machine - Take The Power Back Lyrics
Spoken: crank the music upBring that shit in! uggh!Yeah, the movements in motion with mass militant poetryNow check this out...uggh!In the right light, study becomes insightBut the system that dissed usTeaches us to read and writeSo called facts are fraudThey want us to allege and pledgeAnd bow down to their godLost the culture, the culture lostSpun our minds and through timeIgnorance has taken overYo, we gotta take the power back!Bam! heres the planMother***** uncle samStep back, I know who I amRaise up your ear, Ill drop the style and clearIts the beats and the lyrics they fearThe rage is relentlessWe need a movement with a quicknessYou are the witness of changeAnd to counteractWe gotta take the power backYeah, we gotta take the power backCome on, come on!We gotta take the power backThe present curriculumI put my fist in emEurocentric every last one of emSee right through the red, white and blue disguiseWith lecture I puncture the structure of liesInstalled in our minds and attemptingTo hold us backWeve got to take it backcause holes in our spirit causin tears and fearsOne-sided stories for years and years and yearsIm inferior? whos inferior?Yea, we need to check the interiorOf the system that cares about only one cultureAnd that is whyWe gotta take the power backYeah, we gotta take the power backCome on, come on!We gotta take the power backHey yo check, were gonna have to break it, break it, break it downAwww shit!Uggh!And like this...uggh!Come on, yeah! bring it back the other way!The teacher stands in front of the classBut the lesson plan he cant recallThe students eyes dont perceive the liesBouning off every *****ing wallHis composure is well keptI guess he fears playing the foolThe complacent students sit and listen to some of thatBullshit that he learned in schoolEurope aint my rope to swing onCant learn a thing from itYet we hang from itGotta get it, gotta get it together thenLike the mother*****in weathermenTo expose and close the doors on those who tryTo strangle and mangle the truthcause the circle of hatred continues unless we reactWe gotta take the power backYeah, we gotta take the power backCome on, come on!We gotta take the power backNo more lies (8 times, building to a crescendo)Uggh!Yeah!Take it back joeTake it back, a-take it backA-take it back joe, come on!Take it back joeTake it back, a-take it backA-take it back joe, come on!Uggh!Yeah!
