Rage Against the Machine - Wake Up lyrics

Come on ugh
Come on

Although ya try to discredit
Ya still never read it
The needle, I'll thread it, radically poetic
Standin' with the fury that they had in '66
And like E-Double "I'm Mad"
Still knee deep in the system's shit
Hoover, he was a body remover
I'll give you a dose but
It can never come close
To the rage built up inside of me
Fist in the air in the land of hypocrisy
Movements come and movements go
Leaders speak
Movements cease when their heads are flown
'Cause all these punks got
Bullets in their heads departments of police
(What) the judges (What) , the feds
Networks at work, keeping people calm
You know they went after King when
He spoke out on Vietnam
He turned the power to the have nots
And then came the shot

Yeah yeah, back in this

With poetry my mind I flex
"Flip" like Wilson
Vocals never lackin' that finesse
What do I got to
What do I got to do to wake you up?
To shake you up, to break the structure up?
'Cause blood still flows in the gutter
I'm like taking photos
Mad boy kicks open the shutter
Set the groove
Then stick and move like I was Cassius
Rep the "Stutter Step" then bomb
A left upon the fascists
Yeah, several federal men
Who pulled schemes on the dream and
Put it to an end
You better beware the retribution
With mind war 20
20 visions and murals with metaphors
Networks at work, keepin' people calm
Ya know they murdered X and tried
To blame it on Islam
He turned the power to the have nots
And then came the shot

What was the price on his head?
What was the price on his head!?
I think I heard a shot
I think I heard a shot
I think I heard a shot
I think I heard a shot
I think I heard a shot
I think I heard, I think I heard a shot

Black Nationalism

But should he abandon
His supposed 'obedience'
To the 'White liberal
Doctrine' of non-violence
And embrace Black Nationalism
Through counter-intelligence
It should be possible
To pinpoint potential troublemakers
And neutralize them
Through counter-intelligence
It should be possible
To pinpoint potential troublemakers
And neutralize them
And neutralize them, and neutralize them
And neutralize them, and neutralize them
And neutralize them

Wake up! Wake up!
Wake up! Wake up!
Wake up! Wake up!
Wake up! Wake up!

How long? Not long
'Cause what you reap is what you sow