Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Wake Up, artist - Rage Against The Machine. Date of issue: 02.11.1992
Record label: Sony
Song language: English
Wake Up |
| Come on! |
| Uggh! |
| Come on, although ya try to discredit |
| Ya still never edit |
| 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 ya a dose |
| But it'll 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, the judges, the feds |
| Networks at work, keepin' 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... |
| Wit' poetry, my mind I flex |
| Flip like Wilson, vocals never lackin' dat finesse |
| Whadda I got to, whadda I got to do to wake ya up |
| To shake ya up, to break the structure up |
| 'Cause blood still flows in the gutter |
| I'm like takin' 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 |
| Yea, the several federal men |
| Who pulled schemes on the dream |
| And put it to an end |
| Ya better beware |
| Of 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 |
| Uggh! |
| 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 |
| 'He may be a real contender for this position should he |
| abandon his supposed obediance to white liberal doctrine |
| of non-violence...and embrace black nationalism' |
| 'Through counter-intelligence it should be possible to |
| pinpoint potential trouble-makers...And neutralize them, |
| neutralize them, 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 |