The 4th Branch Lyrics
| Song | The 4th Branch |
| Artist | Immortal Technique |
| Album | Revolutionary Vol. 2 |
| Download | Image LRC TXT |
| [00:03.23] | The new age is upon us |
| [00:05.53] | And yet the past refuses to rest in its shallow grave |
| [00:10.26] | For those who hide behind the false image of the Son of man |
| [00:14.52] | Shall stand before God |
| [00:21.00] | It has begun |
| [00:23.70] | The beginning of the end |
| [00:27.99] | Yeah |
| [00:33.14] | Yeah, yeah, yeah |
| [00:36.98] | |
| [00:37.18] | (Verse 1) |
| [00:37.38] | The voice of racism preachin' the gospel is devilish |
| [00:40.82] | A fake church called the prophet Muhammad a terrorist |
| [00:43.92] | Forgetting God is not a religion, but a spiritual bond |
| [00:47.01] | And Jesus is the most quoted prophet in the Qu'ran |
| [00:50.26] | They bombed innocent people, tryin' to murder Saddam |
| [00:53.41] | When you gave him those chemical weapons to go to war with Iran |
| [00:56.56] | This is the information that they hold back from Peter Jennings |
| [00:59.86] | Cause Condoleeza Rice is just a new age Sally Hemings |
| [01:02.86] | I break it down with critical language and spiritual anguish |
| [01:06.55] | The Judas I hang with, the guilt of betraying Christ |
| [01:09.60] | You murdered and stole his religion, and painting him white |
| [01:12.29] | Translated in psychologically tainted philosophy |
| [01:15.54] | Conservative political right wing, ideology |
| [01:18.68] | Glued together sloppily, the blasphemy of a nation |
| [01:21.73] | Got my back to the wall, cause I'm facin' assassination |
| [01:25.13] | Guantanamo Bay, federal incarceration |
| [01:28.48] | How could this be, the land of the free, home of the brave |
| [01:31.62] | Indigenous holocaust and the home of the slaves |
| [01:34.46] | Corporate America, dancin' offbeat to the rhythm |
| [01:37.54] | You really think this country, never sponsored terrorism |
| [01:40.99] | Human rights violations, we continue the saga |
| [01:43.94] | El Savador and the contras in Nicaragua |
| [01:47.14] | And on top of that, you still wanna take me to prison |
| [01:50.38] | Just cause I won't trade humanity for patriotism |
| [01:53.89] | (Refrain) |
| [01:53.99] | It's like MKUltra, controllin' your brain |
| [01:56.93] | Suggestive thinking, causing your perspective to change |
| [01:59.93] | They wanna rearrange the whole point of view of the ghetto |
| [02:02.97] | The fourth branch of the government, want us to settle |
| [02:06.27] | A bandanna full of glittering, generality |
| [02:09.25] | Fightin' for freedom and fightin' terror, but what's reality |
| [02:12.51] | Read about the history of the place that we live in |
| [02:15.72] | And stop letting corporate news tell lies to your children |
| [02:18.91] | (Verse 2) |
| [02:19.00] | Flow like the blood of Abraham through the Jews and the Arabs |
| [02:22.25] | Broken apart like a woman's heart, abused in a marriage |
| [02:25.35] | The brink of holy war, bottled up, like a miscarriage |
| [02:28.60] | Embedded correspondents don't tell the source of the tension |
| [02:31.69] | And they refuse to even mention, European intervention |
| [02:34.94] | Or the massacres in Jenin, the innocent screams |
| [02:37.92] | U.S. manufactured missles, and M-16's |
| [02:41.13] | Weapon contracts and corrupted American dreams |
| [02:44.42] | Media censor******p, blocking out the video screens |
| [02:47.43] | A continent of oil kingdoms, bought for a bargain |
| [02:50.67] | Democracy is just a word, when the people are starvin' |
| [02:53.96] | The average citizen, made to be, blind to the reason |
| [02:56.91] | A desert full of genocide, where the bodies are freezin' |
| [03:00.16] | And the world doesn't believe that you fightin' for freedom |
| [03:03.80] | Cause you ****** the Middle East, and gave birth to a demon |
| [03:06.65] | It's open season with the CIA, buggin' my crib |
| [03:09.74] | Trapped in a ghetto region like a Palestinian kid |
| [03:12.93] | Where nobody gives a ****** whether you die or you live |
| [03:15.99] | I'm tryin' to give the truth, and I know the price is my life |
| [03:19.74] | But when I'm gone they'll sing a song about Immortal Technique |
| [03:23.04] | Who beheaded the President, and the princes and sheiks |
| [03:26.02] | You don't give a ****** about us, I can see through your facade |
| [03:29.43] | Like a fallen angel standing in the presence of God |
| [03:32.41] | ****** ******s scared of the truth, when it looks at you hard |
| [03:35.38] | |
| [03:35.39] | (Refrain) |
| [03:35.50] | It's like MKUltra, controllin' your brain |
| [03:38.68] | Suggestive thinking, causing your perspective to change |
| [03:41.82] | They wanna rearrange the whole point of view of the ghetto |
| [03:45.01] | The fourth branch of the government, want us to settle |
| [03:48.21] | A bandanna full of glittering, generality |
| [03:51.36] | Fightin' for freedom and fightin' terror, but what's reality |
| [03:54.49] | Martial law is coming soon to the hood, to kill you |
| [03:57.74] | While you hanging your flag out your project window” |
| [04:00.99] | |
| [04:01.24] | (Immortal Technique: Talking) |
| [04:03.99] | The fourth branch of the government AKA the media |
| [04:07.51] | Seems to now have a retirement plan for ex-military officials |
| [04:11.95] | As if their opinion was at all unbiased |
| [04:14.65] | A machine shouldn't speak for men |
| [04:17.40] | So shut the ****** up you mindless drone |
| [04:20.44] | And you know it's serious |
| [04:22.39] | When these same media outfits are spending millions of dollars on a PR campaign |
| [04:27.68] | To try to convince you they're fair and balanced |
| [04:31.02] | When they're some of the most ignorant, and racist people |
| [04:34.56] | Giving that type of mentality a safe haven |
| [04:37.40] | We act like we share in the spoils of war that they do |
| [04:41.60] | We die in wars, we don't get the contracts to make money off 'em afterwards |
| [04:46.09] | We don't get weapons contracts, ****** |
| [04:49.23] | We don't get cheap labor for our companies, ****** |
| [04:52.33] | We are cheap labor, ****** |
| [04:54.59] | Turn off the news and read, ****** |
| [04:57.19] | Read... read... read |
| [00:03.23] | The new age is upon us |
| [00:05.53] | And yet the past refuses to rest in its shallow grave |
| [00:10.26] | For those who hide behind the false image of the Son of man |
| [00:14.52] | Shall stand before God |
| [00:21.00] | It has begun |
| [00:23.70] | The beginning of the end |
| [00:27.99] | Yeah |
| [00:33.14] | Yeah, yeah, yeah |
| [00:36.98] | |
| [00:37.18] | Verse 1 |
| [00:37.38] | The voice of racism preachin' the gospel is devilish |
| [00:40.82] | A fake church called the prophet Muhammad a terrorist |
| [00:43.92] | Forgetting God is not a religion, but a spiritual bond |
| [00:47.01] | And Jesus is the most quoted prophet in the Qu' ran |
| [00:50.26] | They bombed innocent people, tryin' to murder Saddam |
| [00:53.41] | When you gave him those chemical weapons to go to war with Iran |
| [00:56.56] | This is the information that they hold back from Peter Jennings |
| [00:59.86] | Cause Condoleeza Rice is just a new age Sally Hemings |
| [01:02.86] | I break it down with critical language and spiritual anguish |
| [01:06.55] | The Judas I hang with, the guilt of betraying Christ |
| [01:09.60] | You murdered and stole his religion, and painting him white |
| [01:12.29] | Translated in psychologically tainted philosophy |
| [01:15.54] | Conservative political right wing, ideology |
| [01:18.68] | Glued together sloppily, the blasphemy of a nation |
| [01:21.73] | Got my back to the wall, cause I' m facin' assassination |
| [01:25.13] | Guantanamo Bay, federal incarceration |
| [01:28.48] | How could this be, the land of the free, home of the brave |
| [01:31.62] | Indigenous holocaust and the home of the slaves |
| [01:34.46] | Corporate America, dancin' offbeat to the rhythm |
| [01:37.54] | You really think this country, never sponsored terrorism |
| [01:40.99] | Human rights violations, we continue the saga |
| [01:43.94] | El Savador and the contras in Nicaragua |
| [01:47.14] | And on top of that, you still wanna take me to prison |
| [01:50.38] | Just cause I won' t trade humanity for patriotism |
| [01:53.89] | Refrain |
| [01:53.99] | It' s like MKUltra, controllin' your brain |
| [01:56.93] | Suggestive thinking, causing your perspective to change |
| [01:59.93] | They wanna rearrange the whole point of view of the ghetto |
| [02:02.97] | The fourth branch of the government, want us to settle |
| [02:06.27] | A bandanna full of glittering, generality |
| [02:09.25] | Fightin' for freedom and fightin' terror, but what' s reality |
| [02:12.51] | Read about the history of the place that we live in |
| [02:15.72] | And stop letting corporate news tell lies to your children |
| [02:18.91] | Verse 2 |
| [02:19.00] | Flow like the blood of Abraham through the Jews and the Arabs |
| [02:22.25] | Broken apart like a woman' s heart, abused in a marriage |
| [02:25.35] | The brink of holy war, bottled up, like a miscarriage |
| [02:28.60] | Embedded correspondents don' t tell the source of the tension |
| [02:31.69] | And they refuse to even mention, European intervention |
| [02:34.94] | Or the massacres in Jenin, the innocent screams |
| [02:37.92] | U. S. manufactured missles, and M16' s |
| [02:41.13] | Weapon contracts and corrupted American dreams |
| [02:44.42] | Media censor p, blocking out the video screens |
| [02:47.43] | A continent of oil kingdoms, bought for a bargain |
| [02:50.67] | Democracy is just a word, when the people are starvin' |
| [02:53.96] | The average citizen, made to be, blind to the reason |
| [02:56.91] | A desert full of genocide, where the bodies are freezin' |
| [03:00.16] | And the world doesn' t believe that you fightin' for freedom |
| [03:03.80] | Cause you the Middle East, and gave birth to a demon |
| [03:06.65] | It' s open season with the CIA, buggin' my crib |
| [03:09.74] | Trapped in a ghetto region like a Palestinian kid |
| [03:12.93] | Where nobody gives a whether you die or you live |
| [03:15.99] | I' m tryin' to give the truth, and I know the price is my life |
| [03:19.74] | But when I' m gone they' ll sing a song about Immortal Technique |
| [03:23.04] | Who beheaded the President, and the princes and sheiks |
| [03:26.02] | You don' t give a about us, I can see through your facade |
| [03:29.43] | Like a fallen angel standing in the presence of God |
| [03:32.41] | s scared of the truth, when it looks at you hard |
| [03:35.38] | |
| [03:35.39] | Refrain |
| [03:35.50] | It' s like MKUltra, controllin' your brain |
| [03:38.68] | Suggestive thinking, causing your perspective to change |
| [03:41.82] | They wanna rearrange the whole point of view of the ghetto |
| [03:45.01] | The fourth branch of the government, want us to settle |
| [03:48.21] | A bandanna full of glittering, generality |
| [03:51.36] | Fightin' for freedom and fightin' terror, but what' s reality |
| [03:54.49] | Martial law is coming soon to the hood, to kill you |
| [03:57.74] | While you hanging your flag out your project window" |
| [04:00.99] | |
| [04:01.24] | Immortal Technique: Talking |
| [04:03.99] | The fourth branch of the government AKA the media |
| [04:07.51] | Seems to now have a retirement plan for exmilitary officials |
| [04:11.95] | As if their opinion was at all unbiased |
| [04:14.65] | A machine shouldn' t speak for men |
| [04:17.40] | So shut the up you mindless drone |
| [04:20.44] | And you know it' s serious |
| [04:22.39] | When these same media outfits are spending millions of dollars on a PR campaign |
| [04:27.68] | To try to convince you they' re fair and balanced |
| [04:31.02] | When they' re some of the most ignorant, and racist people |
| [04:34.56] | Giving that type of mentality a safe haven |
| [04:37.40] | We act like we share in the spoils of war that they do |
| [04:41.60] | We die in wars, we don' t get the contracts to make money off ' em afterwards |
| [04:46.09] | We don' t get weapons contracts, |
| [04:49.23] | We don' t get cheap labor for our companies, |
| [04:52.33] | We are cheap labor, |
| [04:54.59] | Turn off the news and read, |
| [04:57.19] | Read... read... read |
| [00:03.23] | The new age is upon us |
| [00:05.53] | And yet the past refuses to rest in its shallow grave |
| [00:10.26] | For those who hide behind the false image of the Son of man |
| [00:14.52] | Shall stand before God |
| [00:21.00] | It has begun |
| [00:23.70] | The beginning of the end |
| [00:27.99] | Yeah |
| [00:33.14] | Yeah, yeah, yeah |
| [00:36.98] | |
| [00:37.18] | Verse 1 |
| [00:37.38] | The voice of racism preachin' the gospel is devilish |
| [00:40.82] | A fake church called the prophet Muhammad a terrorist |
| [00:43.92] | Forgetting God is not a religion, but a spiritual bond |
| [00:47.01] | And Jesus is the most quoted prophet in the Qu' ran |
| [00:50.26] | They bombed innocent people, tryin' to murder Saddam |
| [00:53.41] | When you gave him those chemical weapons to go to war with Iran |
| [00:56.56] | This is the information that they hold back from Peter Jennings |
| [00:59.86] | Cause Condoleeza Rice is just a new age Sally Hemings |
| [01:02.86] | I break it down with critical language and spiritual anguish |
| [01:06.55] | The Judas I hang with, the guilt of betraying Christ |
| [01:09.60] | You murdered and stole his religion, and painting him white |
| [01:12.29] | Translated in psychologically tainted philosophy |
| [01:15.54] | Conservative political right wing, ideology |
| [01:18.68] | Glued together sloppily, the blasphemy of a nation |
| [01:21.73] | Got my back to the wall, cause I' m facin' assassination |
| [01:25.13] | Guantanamo Bay, federal incarceration |
| [01:28.48] | How could this be, the land of the free, home of the brave |
| [01:31.62] | Indigenous holocaust and the home of the slaves |
| [01:34.46] | Corporate America, dancin' offbeat to the rhythm |
| [01:37.54] | You really think this country, never sponsored terrorism |
| [01:40.99] | Human rights violations, we continue the saga |
| [01:43.94] | El Savador and the contras in Nicaragua |
| [01:47.14] | And on top of that, you still wanna take me to prison |
| [01:50.38] | Just cause I won' t trade humanity for patriotism |
| [01:53.89] | Refrain |
| [01:53.99] | It' s like MKUltra, controllin' your brain |
| [01:56.93] | Suggestive thinking, causing your perspective to change |
| [01:59.93] | They wanna rearrange the whole point of view of the ghetto |
| [02:02.97] | The fourth branch of the government, want us to settle |
| [02:06.27] | A bandanna full of glittering, generality |
| [02:09.25] | Fightin' for freedom and fightin' terror, but what' s reality |
| [02:12.51] | Read about the history of the place that we live in |
| [02:15.72] | And stop letting corporate news tell lies to your children |
| [02:18.91] | Verse 2 |
| [02:19.00] | Flow like the blood of Abraham through the Jews and the Arabs |
| [02:22.25] | Broken apart like a woman' s heart, abused in a marriage |
| [02:25.35] | The brink of holy war, bottled up, like a miscarriage |
| [02:28.60] | Embedded correspondents don' t tell the source of the tension |
| [02:31.69] | And they refuse to even mention, European intervention |
| [02:34.94] | Or the massacres in Jenin, the innocent screams |
| [02:37.92] | U. S. manufactured missles, and M16' s |
| [02:41.13] | Weapon contracts and corrupted American dreams |
| [02:44.42] | Media censor p, blocking out the video screens |
| [02:47.43] | A continent of oil kingdoms, bought for a bargain |
| [02:50.67] | Democracy is just a word, when the people are starvin' |
| [02:53.96] | The average citizen, made to be, blind to the reason |
| [02:56.91] | A desert full of genocide, where the bodies are freezin' |
| [03:00.16] | And the world doesn' t believe that you fightin' for freedom |
| [03:03.80] | Cause you the Middle East, and gave birth to a demon |
| [03:06.65] | It' s open season with the CIA, buggin' my crib |
| [03:09.74] | Trapped in a ghetto region like a Palestinian kid |
| [03:12.93] | Where nobody gives a whether you die or you live |
| [03:15.99] | I' m tryin' to give the truth, and I know the price is my life |
| [03:19.74] | But when I' m gone they' ll sing a song about Immortal Technique |
| [03:23.04] | Who beheaded the President, and the princes and sheiks |
| [03:26.02] | You don' t give a about us, I can see through your facade |
| [03:29.43] | Like a fallen angel standing in the presence of God |
| [03:32.41] | s scared of the truth, when it looks at you hard |
| [03:35.38] | |
| [03:35.39] | Refrain |
| [03:35.50] | It' s like MKUltra, controllin' your brain |
| [03:38.68] | Suggestive thinking, causing your perspective to change |
| [03:41.82] | They wanna rearrange the whole point of view of the ghetto |
| [03:45.01] | The fourth branch of the government, want us to settle |
| [03:48.21] | A bandanna full of glittering, generality |
| [03:51.36] | Fightin' for freedom and fightin' terror, but what' s reality |
| [03:54.49] | Martial law is coming soon to the hood, to kill you |
| [03:57.74] | While you hanging your flag out your project window" |
| [04:00.99] | |
| [04:01.24] | Immortal Technique: Talking |
| [04:03.99] | The fourth branch of the government AKA the media |
| [04:07.51] | Seems to now have a retirement plan for exmilitary officials |
| [04:11.95] | As if their opinion was at all unbiased |
| [04:14.65] | A machine shouldn' t speak for men |
| [04:17.40] | So shut the up you mindless drone |
| [04:20.44] | And you know it' s serious |
| [04:22.39] | When these same media outfits are spending millions of dollars on a PR campaign |
| [04:27.68] | To try to convince you they' re fair and balanced |
| [04:31.02] | When they' re some of the most ignorant, and racist people |
| [04:34.56] | Giving that type of mentality a safe haven |
| [04:37.40] | We act like we share in the spoils of war that they do |
| [04:41.60] | We die in wars, we don' t get the contracts to make money off ' em afterwards |
| [04:46.09] | We don' t get weapons contracts, |
| [04:49.23] | We don' t get cheap labor for our companies, |
| [04:52.33] | We are cheap labor, |
| [04:54.59] | Turn off the news and read, |
| [04:57.19] | Read... read... read |
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