Wake Up

Song Wake Up
Artist Rage Against the Machine
Album The Matrix: Music From The Motion Picture

Lyrics

[00:02.02] WAKE UP
[00:29.90] Come on!
[00:43.06]
[00:44.08] Uggh!
[00:46.24]
[00:59.56] Come on, although ya try to discredit
[01:02.40] Ya still never edit
[01:03.90] The needle, I'll thread it
[01:05.39] Radically poetic
[01:06.83] Standin' with the fury that they had in '66
[01:10.12] And like E-Double I'm mad
[01:11.54] Still knee-deep in the system's shit
[01:13.98] Hoover, he was a body remover
[01:15.34] I'll give ya a dose
[01:17.49] But it'll never come close
[01:20.12] To the rage built up inside of me
[01:21.39] Fist in the air, in the land of hypocrisy
[01:25.20] Movements come and movements go
[01:28.42] Leaders speak, movements cease
[01:30.09] When their heads are flown
[01:31.35] 'Cause all these punks
[01:32.36] Got bullets in their heads
[01:34.10] Departments of police, the judges, the feds
[01:36.09] Networks at work, keepin' people calm
[01:38.56] You know they went after King
[01:40.11] When he spoke out on Vietnam
[01:41.60] He turned the power to the have-nots
[01:43.42] And then came the shot
[01:57.21] Yeah!
[02:04.91] Yeah, back in this...
[02:06.59]
[02:09.83] Wit' poetry, my mind I flex
[02:11.84] Flip like Wilson, vocals never lackin' dat finesse
[02:14.60] Whadda I got to, whadda I got to do to wake ya up
[02:18.23] To shake ya up, to break the structure up
[02:20.19] 'Cause blood still flows in the gutter
[02:24.44] I'm like takin' photos
[02:25.31] Mad boy kicks open the shutter
[02:26.74] Set the groove
[02:27.48] Then stick and move like I was Cassius
[02:29.55] Rep the stutter step
[02:31.09] Then bomb a left upon the fascists
[02:33.58] Yea, the several federal men
[02:34.76] Who pulled schemes on the dream
[02:36.58] And put it to an end
[02:37.63] Ya better beware
[02:38.93] Of retribution with mind war
[02:40.96] 20/20 visions and murals with metaphors
[02:42.72] Networks at work, keepin' people calm
[02:46.35] Ya know they murdered X
[02:47.64] And tried to blame it on Islam
[02:49.70] He turned the power to the have-nots
[02:53.30] And then came the shot
[03:00.99]
[03:30.40] Uggh!
[03:34.80] What was the price on his head?
[03:36.31]
[03:40.23] What was the price on his head!
[03:46.52] I think I heard a shot
[03:51.46] I think I heard a shot
[03:57.27] I think I heard a shot
[04:02.80] I think I heard a shot
[04:14.96] I think I heard a shot
[04:24.82] I think I heard, I think I heard a shot
[04:38.52] 'He may be a real contender for this position should he
[04:40.96] abandon his supposed obediance to white liberal doctrine
[04:44.03] of non-violence...and embrace black nationalism'
[04:45.68] 'Through counter-intelligence it should be possible to
[04:50.27] pinpoint potential trouble-makers...And neutralize them,
[04:52.72] neutralize them, neutralize them'
[05:06.12] Wake up! Wake up! Wake up! Wake up!
[05:17.58] Wake up! Wake up! Wake up! Wake up!
[05:52.92] How long? Not long, cause what you reap is what you sow