Rage Against The Machine - Wake Up Lyrics

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Come on 
Huh! 

Although ya try to discredit 
Y'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'll 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 gotta 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 I 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 
Y'betta beware 
Of retribution with mind war 
20/20 visions and murals with metaphors 

Networks at work, keepin' people calm 
Y'know they murdered X 
And tried to blame it on Islam 
He turned the power to the have-nots 
And then came the shot 

Uggh! 
What was the price on his head? 
What was the price on his heaad? 

I think I heard a shot (x5) 
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 intelligence it should be possible to pinpoint potential 
trouble-makers and neutralize them x2 
And neutralize them x6 
WAKE UP!! x8 

How long, not long 
Cause what you reap 
Is what you sow!

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lyrics corrected by Jonatan on 12-08-2005