Immortal Technique - The 4th Branch lyrics
[Immortal Technique - The 4th Branch lyrics]
The new age is upon us
And yet the past refuses to
Rest in it's shallow grave
For those who hide behind the false
Image of the son of man
Shall stand before God
(God, God, God, God, God, God, God)
It has begun, the beginning of the end
Yeah yeah yeah, yeah
The voice of racism preaching
The gospel is devilish
A fake church called the
Prophet Muhammad a terrorist
Forgetting God is not religion
But a spiritual bond
And Jesus is the most quoted
Prophet in the Qu'ran
They bombed innocent people
Tryna murder Saddam
When you gave him those chemical weapons
To go to war with Iran
This is the information that they
Hold back from Peter Jennings
'Cause Condoleeza Rice is just a
New age Sally Hemings
I break it down with critical
Language and spiritual anguish
The Judas I hang with
The guilt of betraying Christ
You murdered him, stole his religion
And painted him white
Translated in psychologically
Tainted philosophy
Conservative political right-wing ideology
Glued together sloppily
The blasphemy of a nation
Got my back to the wall
'cause I'm facin' assassination
Guantanamo Bay, federal incarceration
How could this be the land of the free
Home of the brave indigenous holocaust
And the home of the slaves?
Corporate America dancin' offbeat
To the rhythm you really think this country
Never sponsored terrorism?
Human rights violations, we continue the saga
El Savador and the Contras in Nicaragua
And on top of that
You still want to take me to prison
Just 'cause I won't trade
Humanity for patriotism
It's like MKUltra, controllin' your brain
Suggestive thinkin’
Causin’ your perspective to change
They want to rearrange the whole point
Of view of the ghetto
The fourth branch of the government
Want us to settle
A bandanna full of glittering generality
Fightin' for freedom and fightin' terror
But what's reality?
Read about the history of the
Place that we live in
And stop letting corporate news tell
Lies to your children
Flow like the blood of Abraham through
The Jews and the Arabs
Broken apart like a woman's heart
Abused in a marriage the brink of holy war
Bottled up like a miscarriage
Embedded correspondents don't tell the
Source of the tension
And they refuse to even
Mention European intervention
Or the massacres in Jenin
The innocent screams
US manufactured missiles and M16s
Weapon contracts and corrupted
American dreams
Media censorship blockin’ out
The video screens
A continent of oil kingdoms
Bought for a bargain
Democracy is just a word when
The people are starvin'
The average citizen made to be
Blind to the reason
A desert full of genocide where
The bodies are freezin'
And the world doesn't believe that
You fightin' for freedom
'Cause you fucked the Middle East and
Gave birth to a demon
It's open season with the
CIA buggin' my crib
Trapped in a ghetto region
Like a Palestinian kid
Where nobody gives a fuck whether
You die or you live
I'm tryna give the truth and I
Know the price is my life
But when I'm gone they'll sing
A song about Immortal Technique
Who beheaded the president and
The princes and sheiks
You don't give a fuck about us
I can see through your facade
Like a fallen angel standing in
The presence of God
Bitch niggas scared of the truth when
It looks at you hard
It's like MKUltra, controllin' your brain
Suggestive thinkin’
Causin’ your perspective to change
They want to rearrange the whole point
Of view of the ghetto
The fourth branch of the government
Want us to settle
A bandanna full of glittering generality
Fightin' for freedom and fightin' terror
But what's reality?
Martial law is coming soon to
The hood to kill you
While you hangin’ your flag
Out your project window
Yeah the fourth branch of the
Government AKA the media
Seems to now have a retirement
Plan for ex-military officials
As if their opinion was at all unbiased
A machine shouldn't speak for men
So shut the fuck up, you mindless drone
And you know it's serious
When these same media outfit's
Are spending millions
Of dollars on a PR campaign
To try to convince you
They're fair and balanced
When they're some of the most
Ignorant and racist people
Giving that type of mentality a safe haven
We act like we share in the
Spoils of war that they do we die in wars
We don't get the contracts to
Make money off 'em afterwards
We don't get weapons contracts, nigga
We don't get cheap labor for our companies
Nigga we are cheap labor, nigga
Turn off the news and read, nigga read
Read read
And yet the past refuses to
Rest in it's shallow grave
For those who hide behind the false
Image of the son of man
Shall stand before God
(God, God, God, God, God, God, God)
It has begun, the beginning of the end
Yeah yeah yeah, yeah
The voice of racism preaching
The gospel is devilish
A fake church called the
Prophet Muhammad a terrorist
Forgetting God is not religion
But a spiritual bond
And Jesus is the most quoted
Prophet in the Qu'ran
They bombed innocent people
Tryna murder Saddam
When you gave him those chemical weapons
To go to war with Iran
This is the information that they
Hold back from Peter Jennings
'Cause Condoleeza Rice is just a
New age Sally Hemings
I break it down with critical
Language and spiritual anguish
The Judas I hang with
The guilt of betraying Christ
You murdered him, stole his religion
And painted him white
Translated in psychologically
Tainted philosophy
Conservative political right-wing ideology
Glued together sloppily
The blasphemy of a nation
Got my back to the wall
'cause I'm facin' assassination
Guantanamo Bay, federal incarceration
How could this be the land of the free
Home of the brave indigenous holocaust
And the home of the slaves?
Corporate America dancin' offbeat
To the rhythm you really think this country
Never sponsored terrorism?
Human rights violations, we continue the saga
El Savador and the Contras in Nicaragua
And on top of that
You still want to take me to prison
Just 'cause I won't trade
Humanity for patriotism
It's like MKUltra, controllin' your brain
Suggestive thinkin’
Causin’ your perspective to change
They want to rearrange the whole point
Of view of the ghetto
The fourth branch of the government
Want us to settle
A bandanna full of glittering generality
Fightin' for freedom and fightin' terror
But what's reality?
Read about the history of the
Place that we live in
And stop letting corporate news tell
Lies to your children
Flow like the blood of Abraham through
The Jews and the Arabs
Broken apart like a woman's heart
Abused in a marriage the brink of holy war
Bottled up like a miscarriage
Embedded correspondents don't tell the
Source of the tension
And they refuse to even
Mention European intervention
Or the massacres in Jenin
The innocent screams
US manufactured missiles and M16s
Weapon contracts and corrupted
American dreams
Media censorship blockin’ out
The video screens
A continent of oil kingdoms
Bought for a bargain
Democracy is just a word when
The people are starvin'
The average citizen made to be
Blind to the reason
A desert full of genocide where
The bodies are freezin'
And the world doesn't believe that
You fightin' for freedom
'Cause you fucked the Middle East and
Gave birth to a demon
It's open season with the
CIA buggin' my crib
Trapped in a ghetto region
Like a Palestinian kid
Where nobody gives a fuck whether
You die or you live
I'm tryna give the truth and I
Know the price is my life
But when I'm gone they'll sing
A song about Immortal Technique
Who beheaded the president and
The princes and sheiks
You don't give a fuck about us
I can see through your facade
Like a fallen angel standing in
The presence of God
Bitch niggas scared of the truth when
It looks at you hard
It's like MKUltra, controllin' your brain
Suggestive thinkin’
Causin’ your perspective to change
They want to rearrange the whole point
Of view of the ghetto
The fourth branch of the government
Want us to settle
A bandanna full of glittering generality
Fightin' for freedom and fightin' terror
But what's reality?
Martial law is coming soon to
The hood to kill you
While you hangin’ your flag
Out your project window
Yeah the fourth branch of the
Government AKA the media
Seems to now have a retirement
Plan for ex-military officials
As if their opinion was at all unbiased
A machine shouldn't speak for men
So shut the fuck up, you mindless drone
And you know it's serious
When these same media outfit's
Are spending millions
Of dollars on a PR campaign
To try to convince you
They're fair and balanced
When they're some of the most
Ignorant and racist people
Giving that type of mentality a safe haven
We act like we share in the
Spoils of war that they do we die in wars
We don't get the contracts to
Make money off 'em afterwards
We don't get weapons contracts, nigga
We don't get cheap labor for our companies
Nigga we are cheap labor, nigga
Turn off the news and read, nigga read
Read read