[ti:Take the Power Back (Explicit)] [ar:Rage Against The Machine] [al:Rage Against The Machine (Explicit)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.40]Take the Power Back (Explicit) - Rage Against The Machine [00:01.85]Lyrics by:Zack de la Rocha [00:02.86]Composed by:Rage Against The Machine [00:03.90]Arranged by:Rage Against The Machine [00:04.99]Produced by:Rage Against The Machine/GGGarth [00:14.16]Crank the music up [00:34.83]Bring that shit in uh [00:44.79]Yeah the movement's in motion with massive militant poetry [00:48.96]Now check this out uh [00:53.56]In the right light study becomes insight [00:55.70]But the system that dissed us teaches us to read and write [00:58.33]So-called facts are fraud [01:00.09]They want us to allege and pledge and bow down to their god [01:03.18]Lost the culture the culture lost [01:05.82]Spun our minds and through time ignorance has taken over [01:10.03]Yo we gotta take the power back [01:12.62]Bam here's the plan [01:14.09]Motherfuck Uncle Sam step back I know who I am [01:16.69]Raise up your ear I'll drop the style and clear [01:19.20]It's the beats and the lyrics they fear [01:21.88]The rage is relentless [01:23.79]We need a movement with a quickness [01:26.01]You are the witness of change and to counteract [01:28.85]We gotta take the power back [01:33.05]Yeah we gotta take the power back [01:38.06]Come on come on [01:42.68]We gotta take the power back [01:47.67]The present curriculum I put my fist in 'em [01:50.45]Eurocentric every last one of 'em [01:52.38]See right through the red white and blue disguise [01:54.58]With lecture I puncture the structure of lies [01:57.00]Installed in our minds and attempting to hold us back [02:00.07]We've got to take it back [02:01.47]Holes in our spirit causing tears and fears [02:03.90]One-sided stories for years and years and years [02:06.28]I'm inferior? [02:07.41]Who's inferior? [02:08.54]Yeah we need to check the interior [02:10.29]Of the system who cares about only one culture [02:12.64]And that is why we gotta take the power back [02:17.76]Yeah we gotta take the power back [02:22.84]Come on come on [02:26.90]Yeah we gotta take the power back [02:34.94]Ayo check we're gonna have to break it [02:36.40]Break it break it down [02:40.47]Aw shit [02:50.44]Uh [03:16.72]And like this [03:19.89]Uh come on [03:24.51]Yeah bring it back the other way [03:28.95]Uh [03:31.35]The teacher stands in front of the class [03:33.59]But the lesson plan he can't recall [03:36.16]The student's eyes don't perceive the lies [03:38.09]Bouncing off every fucking wall [03:40.68]His composure is well kept [03:42.43]I guess he fears playing the fool [03:45.17]The complacent students sit [03:46.85]And listen to that bullshit that he'd learned in school [03:49.50]Europe ain't my rope to swing on [03:52.05]Can't learn a thing from it yet we hang from it [03:54.33]Gotta get it gotta get it together then [03:56.59]Like the motherfuckin' weathermen [03:58.56]Expose and close the doors on those who try [04:00.73]To strangle and mangle the truth [04:02.71]'Cause the circle of hatred continues unless we react [04:06.14]We gotta take the power back [04:10.08]Yeah we gotta take the power back [04:15.12]Come on come on [04:19.11]Yeah we gotta take the power back [04:45.97]No more lies [04:48.32]No more lies [04:50.51]No more lies [04:52.88]No more lies [04:55.22]No more lies [04:57.56]No more lies [04:59.92]No more lies [05:02.26]No more lies [05:04.44]Uh [05:08.65]Yeah [05:13.16]Take it back y'all [05:14.10]Take it back a-take it back a-take it back y'all [05:16.33]Come on take it back y'all [05:18.50]Take it back a-take it back a-take it back y'all [05:20.72]Come on uh [05:26.41]Yeah