Rage Against The Machine - Take the Power Back (Live) lyrics

Crank the music up Bring that sh** in Huh Yeah, the movement's in motion With ma** militant poetry Now check this out Uh In the right light, study becomes insight But the system that dissed us teaches us to read and write So-called facts are fraud They want you to allege and pledge and Bow down into 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, motherf** 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 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, you need to check the interior Of the system who cares about only one culture And that is why we gotta take the power back 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 sh** Uh And like this, uh Come on, yeah Bring it back the other way Uh The teacher stands in front of the cla** But the lesson plan he can't recall The students' eyes don't perceive the lies Bouncing off every f**ing wall His composure is well kept I guess he fears playing the fool The complacent students sit and listen to that bullsh** That he'd 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 motherf**ing 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 Yeah, 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 Uh Yeah Take it back y'all Take it back, take it back, take it back y'all, c'mon Take it back y'all Take it back, take it back, take it back y'all, c'mon Uh Yeah