Dead prez - Propaganda lyrics
[Dead prez - Propaganda lyrics]
"Let me now turn
To our program for the future"
"The economy right now
Is extremely supporting of the
President and his policies"
"FBI scientists have found chemical traces
Consistent with a bomb or a missile
On a piece of wreckage"
"police using clubs and tear
Gas against demonstrators"
"they called me a mother -
(bleeped out) -ing so-and-so and a
White fascist like they said
'you're getting some of your own medicine'"
Telling lies, to our vision
Telling lies, to our children
Telling lies, to our babies
Only truth, can take us away from here
You can't fool all the people all of the time
But, if you fool the right ones
Then the rest will fall behind
Tell me who's got control of
Your mind? Your world view?
Is it the news or the movie
You're taking your girl to?
Know what I'm saying 'cause Uncle
Sam got a plan
If you examine what they tellin'
Us then you will understand
What they plantin' in the seeds
Of the next generation
Feedin' our children miseducation
No one knows if there's UFOs
Or any life on Mars
Or what they doin' when they up in the stars
Because I don't believe a word
Of what the president said
He fillin' our head with lies
Got us hypnotized
When he be speakin' in code
Words about crime and poverty
Drugs, welfare, prisons, guns and robbery
It really means us
There's no excuse for the slander
But what's good for the goose
Is still good for the gander see
I don't believe Bob Marley died from cancer
31 years ago I would've been a Panther
They killed Huey 'cause they knew
He had the answer the views that you see in
The news is propaganda
Telling lies, to our vision
Telling lies, to our children
Telling lies, to our babies
Only truth, can take us away from here
I don't want no computer chip in my arm
I don't wanna die by a nuclear bomb
I say we all rush the pentagon
Pull out guns and grab the intercom
My first words'll be, "I believe
Man made God, outta ignorance and fear"
If God made man
Then why the hell would he put us here?
I thought he's s'posed to be the all-loving?
The same God who let Hitler put
The Jews in the ovens
We don't fall for the regular shit
They try to feed us
All this half-ass leadership
Flippin' position
They turn politician and shut the
Hell up and follow tradition
Boy, your TV screen is telling
Lies to your vision
Every channel got some brainwashed
Cop shit to watch
Running up in niggas' cribs claiming
That they heard shots
It's a plot, but busta
Can you tell me who's greedier?
Big corporations, the pigs or the media?
Sign of the times, terrorism on the rise
Commercial airplanes
Fallin' out the skies like flies
Make me wonder what secrets went
Down with Ron Brown
Who burnt the churches to the
Ground with no evidence found?
It's not coincidence
It's been too many steady incidents
It could've been the Klan who put
That bomb at the Olympics
But it prob'ly was the FBI, deep at the core
Cause if they make us all panic
Then they can start martial law
I don't believe Bob Marley died from cancer
31 years ago I would've been a Panther
They killed Huey 'cause they knew
He had the answer the views that you see in
The news is propaganda
I don't believe Bob Marley died from cancer
31 years ago I would've been a Panther
They killed Huey 'cause they knew
He had the answer the views that you see in
The news is propaganda
The police is telling lies fooling millions
What are they teaching our kids
In these school buildings?
Televised, enterprise making a killing
Controlling our lives, this ain't living
No, this ain't living
FBI, CIA aTF, KKK
IRS, TNT cBS, NBC
FBI, CIA aTF, KKK
IRS, TNT cBS, NBC
Telling lies, to our vision
Telling lies, to our children
Telling lies, to our babies
Only truth, can take us away from here
"Uh, we view each other with a great
Love and a great understanding and
That we try to expand this to
The general Black population, and also
People - oppressed people all
Over the world and
I think that we differ from some
Other groups simply because we
Understand the system better than
Most groups understand
The system and with this realization
We attempt to form a
Strong political base based
In the community with the only strength that
We have and that's the
Strength of a potentially
Destructive force if we don't get freedom"
To our program for the future"
"The economy right now
Is extremely supporting of the
President and his policies"
"FBI scientists have found chemical traces
Consistent with a bomb or a missile
On a piece of wreckage"
"police using clubs and tear
Gas against demonstrators"
"they called me a mother -
(bleeped out) -ing so-and-so and a
White fascist like they said
'you're getting some of your own medicine'"
Telling lies, to our vision
Telling lies, to our children
Telling lies, to our babies
Only truth, can take us away from here
You can't fool all the people all of the time
But, if you fool the right ones
Then the rest will fall behind
Tell me who's got control of
Your mind? Your world view?
Is it the news or the movie
You're taking your girl to?
Know what I'm saying 'cause Uncle
Sam got a plan
If you examine what they tellin'
Us then you will understand
What they plantin' in the seeds
Of the next generation
Feedin' our children miseducation
No one knows if there's UFOs
Or any life on Mars
Or what they doin' when they up in the stars
Because I don't believe a word
Of what the president said
He fillin' our head with lies
Got us hypnotized
When he be speakin' in code
Words about crime and poverty
Drugs, welfare, prisons, guns and robbery
It really means us
There's no excuse for the slander
But what's good for the goose
Is still good for the gander see
I don't believe Bob Marley died from cancer
31 years ago I would've been a Panther
They killed Huey 'cause they knew
He had the answer the views that you see in
The news is propaganda
Telling lies, to our vision
Telling lies, to our children
Telling lies, to our babies
Only truth, can take us away from here
I don't want no computer chip in my arm
I don't wanna die by a nuclear bomb
I say we all rush the pentagon
Pull out guns and grab the intercom
My first words'll be, "I believe
Man made God, outta ignorance and fear"
If God made man
Then why the hell would he put us here?
I thought he's s'posed to be the all-loving?
The same God who let Hitler put
The Jews in the ovens
We don't fall for the regular shit
They try to feed us
All this half-ass leadership
Flippin' position
They turn politician and shut the
Hell up and follow tradition
Boy, your TV screen is telling
Lies to your vision
Every channel got some brainwashed
Cop shit to watch
Running up in niggas' cribs claiming
That they heard shots
It's a plot, but busta
Can you tell me who's greedier?
Big corporations, the pigs or the media?
Sign of the times, terrorism on the rise
Commercial airplanes
Fallin' out the skies like flies
Make me wonder what secrets went
Down with Ron Brown
Who burnt the churches to the
Ground with no evidence found?
It's not coincidence
It's been too many steady incidents
It could've been the Klan who put
That bomb at the Olympics
But it prob'ly was the FBI, deep at the core
Cause if they make us all panic
Then they can start martial law
I don't believe Bob Marley died from cancer
31 years ago I would've been a Panther
They killed Huey 'cause they knew
He had the answer the views that you see in
The news is propaganda
I don't believe Bob Marley died from cancer
31 years ago I would've been a Panther
They killed Huey 'cause they knew
He had the answer the views that you see in
The news is propaganda
The police is telling lies fooling millions
What are they teaching our kids
In these school buildings?
Televised, enterprise making a killing
Controlling our lives, this ain't living
No, this ain't living
FBI, CIA aTF, KKK
IRS, TNT cBS, NBC
FBI, CIA aTF, KKK
IRS, TNT cBS, NBC
Telling lies, to our vision
Telling lies, to our children
Telling lies, to our babies
Only truth, can take us away from here
"Uh, we view each other with a great
Love and a great understanding and
That we try to expand this to
The general Black population, and also
People - oppressed people all
Over the world and
I think that we differ from some
Other groups simply because we
Understand the system better than
Most groups understand
The system and with this realization
We attempt to form a
Strong political base based
In the community with the only strength that
We have and that's the
Strength of a potentially
Destructive force if we don't get freedom"