Rage Against the Machine - Take the Power Back (Live at 86th Street Music Hall, Vancouver, B.C. - April 1993)(2012)

[00:49.67] The classroom's the last room
[00:51.26] That get the truth, yeah
[00:58.57] The classroom's the last room
[01:00.06] That get the truth
[01:05.82] Bring that shit in
[01:15.91] Yeah, check this out y'all
[01:20.86] As I kick it like wicked style
[01:24.84] In the right light, study becomes insight
[01:27.08] But the system that dissed us
[01:28.35] Teaches us to read and write
[01:29.69] So called facts are fraud
[01:31.22] They want us to allege and pledge
[01:32.68] And bow down to their God
[01:34.33] Lost the culture, the culture lost
[01:36.88] Spun our minds and through time
[01:39.25] Ignorance has taken over
[01:41.33] Yo, we gotta take the power back
[01:43.87] Bam, here's the plan, motherfuck Uncle Sam
[01:46.47] Step back, I know who I am
[01:47.85] Raise your ear, I'll drop the style and clear
[01:50.46] It's the beats and the lyrics they fear
[01:52.56] The rage is relentless
[01:54.55] We need a movement with a quickness
[01:56.76] You are the witness of change
[01:58.32] And to counteract we gotta take the power back
[02:04.29] We gotta take the power back
[02:08.53] Come on, come on
[02:13.05] We gotta take the power back
[02:17.74] The present curriculum, I put my fist in 'em
[02:20.68] Eurocentric, every last one of 'em
[02:22.93] See right through the red, white and blue disguise
[02:25.02] With lecture I puncture the structure of lies
[02:27.45] Installed in our minds and attempting to hold us back
[02:30.40] We've got to take it back
[02:32.08] Holes in our spirit causin' tears and fears
[02:34.27] One sided stories for years and years and years
[02:36.63] I'm inferior? Who's inferior?
[02:39.03] Yeah, we need to check the interior of the system
[02:41.32] Who cares about only one culture
[02:43.11] And that is why we gotta take the power back
[02:48.39] We gotta take the power back
[02:52.71] Come on, come on
[02:57.23] We gotta take the power back
[03:07.67] We're gonna break shit down like this
[03:10.20]
[03:45.65] Uh, and like this
[03:50.62] Come on
[04:00.22] The teacher stands in front of the class
[04:02.08] But the lesson plan he can't recall
[04:04.39] The student's eyes don't perceive the lies
[04:06.30] Bouncing off every fucking wall
[04:08.83] His composure is well kept
[04:10.56] I guess he fears playing the fool
[04:13.26] Complacent students sit and listen to that
[04:15.49] Bullshit that he'd learned in school
[04:17.62] Europe ain't my rope to swing on
[04:20.08] Can't learn a thing from it, yet I hang from it
[04:22.38] Gotta get it, gotta get it together then
[04:24.46] Like the motherfuckin' weathermen
[04:26.34] To expose and close the doors on those who try
[04:28.53] To strangle and mangle the truth
[04:30.24] 'Cause the circle of hatred continues unless we react
[04:33.78] We gotta take the power back
[04:38.15] We gotta take the power back
[04:42.49] Come on, come on
[04:46.89] We gotta take the power back
[04:51.53]
[05:13.63] No more lies, no more lies
[05:18.96] No more lies, no more lies
[05:23.70] No more lies, no more lies
[05:28.97] No more lies, no more lies, uh
[05:33.68] Yeah, take it back y'all, take it back
[05:43.61] Uh, take it back, uh, take it back y'all, come on
[05:46.37] Take it back y'all, take it back, uh, take it back
[05:48.50] Uh, take it back y'all, come on, uh, yeah
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