Rage Against The Machine Wake Up lyrics

Come on

Come on, although ya try to discredit
Ya still never read it, the needle, I'll thread it
Radically poetic standin' with the fury that they had in '66
And like a 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 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

Never give up, 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
Whadda I got to, whadda I got to do to wake ya up
To shake ya 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


Yeah, the several federal men
Who pulled schemes on the dream and put it to an end
Ya better beware of retribution with mind war
Twenty twenty 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 knots
And then came the shot

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

He may be a real contender for this position should he
Abandon his supposed obediance to 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
Through counter intelligence 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

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