Rage Against The Machine Wake up Lyrics

COME ON!
Although you try to discredit
You still never read it
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 s___
Hoover, he was a body remover
I'll give you a dose but it can 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, the judges, 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

With poetry, my mind I flex
Flip like Wilson, vocals never lackin' that finesse
Whadda I got to, whadda 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 takin' 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
Yea, the several federal men
Who pulled schemes on the dream and put it to an end
You better beware of retribution with mind war
20/20 visions and murals with metaphors
Networks at work, keepin' people calm
You know they murdered X and tried to blame it on Islam
He turned the power to the have-nots
And then came the shot

What was the price on his head? x2

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

(through counter intelligence it should be possible to pin point potential troublemakers and neutralize them)

(through counter intelligence it should be possible to pin point potential troublemakers and neutralize them
and neutralize them)

Wake up! (x8)

How long? Not long, cause what you reap is what you sow!