Rage Against The Machine
Take The Power Back

Y. Tim. K.
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Intro
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Verse1
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Pre—Verse
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Interlude
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Break
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Verse3
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Bridge
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Have Fun


                                       Lyrics

                             Bring that shit in! Uggh!

                  Yeah, the movement's in motion with mass militant poetry
                             Now check this out...uggh!

                       In the right light, study becomes insight
                           But the system that dissed us
                           Teaches us to read and right

                             So called facts are fraud
                          They want us to allege and pledge
                             And bow down to their God
                          Lost the culture, the culture lost
                           Spun our minds and through time
                               Ignorance has taken over
                           Yo, we gotta take the power back!
                                 Bam! Here's the plan
                                 Motherfuck Uncle Sam
                              Step back, I know who I am
                    Raise up your ear, I'll drop the style and clear
                        It's the beats and the lyrics they fear
                                The rage is relentless
                          We need a movement with a quickness
                             You are the witness of change
                                   And to counteract
                              We gotta take the power back

                           Yeah, we gotta take the power back
                                   Come on, come on!
                              We gotta take the power back

                                The present curriculum
                                 I put my fist in 'em
                            Eurocentric every last one of 'em
                     See right through the red, white and blue disguise
                        With lecture I puncture the structure of lies
                           Installed in our minds and attempting
                                    To hold us back
                               We've got to take it back
                       Holes in our spirit causin' tears and fears
                     One—sided stories for years and years and years
                               I'm inferior? Who's inferior?
                            Yeah, we need to check the interior
                     Of the system that cares about only one culture
                                    And that is why
                              We gotta take the power back

                            Yeah, we gotta take the power back
                                   Come on, come on!
                               We gotta take the power back

                   Hey yo check, we're gonna have to break it, break it,
                                      break it down
                                        Awww shit!

                                            Uggh!

                                    And like this...uggh!

                           Come on, yeah! Bring it back the other way!

                          The teacher stands in front of the class
                             But the lesson plan he can't recall
                         The student's eyes don't perceive the lies
                               Bouning off every fucking wall
                                 His composure is well kept
                              I guess he fears playing the fool
                  The complacent students sit and listen to some of that
                              Bullshit that he learned in school

                                 Europe ain't my rope to swing on
                                    Can't learn a thing from it
                                         Yet we hang from it
                            Gotta get it, gotta get it together then
                                Like the motherfuckin' weathermen
                         To expose and close the doors on those who try
                              To strangle and mangle the truth
                      'Cause the circle of hatred continues unless we react
                                 We gotta take the power back

                             Yeah, we gotta take the power back
                                      Come on, come on!
                                 We gotta take the power back

                                         No more lies
                                         No more lies
                                         No more lies
                                         No more lies
                                         No more lies
                                         No more lies
                                         No more lies
                                         No more lies

                                             Uggh!

                                             Yeah!

                                      Take it back y'all
                                  Take it back, a—take it back
                                 A—take it back y'all, come on!
                                      Take it back y'all
                                  Take it back, a—take it back
                                 A—take it back y'all, come on!

                                              Uggh!

                                              Yeah!