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TAKE THE POWER BACK Lyrics

Artist: Rage Against The Machine

Bring that shit in! Uggh!

Yeah, the movement's in motion with mass militant poetry
Now check this out...uggh!

In the right light, study becomes insight
But the system that dissed us
Teaches us to read and right

So called facts are fraud
They want us to allege and pledge
And bow down to 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
Motherfuck 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

Yeah, 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, we need to check the interior
Of the system that cares about only one culture
And that is why
We gotta take the power back

Yeah, 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 shit!

Uggh!

And like this...uggh!

Come on, yeah! Bring it back the other way!

The teacher stands in front of the class
But the lesson plan he can't recall
The student's eyes don't perceive the lies
Bouning off every fucking wall
His composure is well kept
I guess he fears playing the fool
The complacent students sit and listen to some of that
Bullshit that he 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 motherfuckin' 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!
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

Uggh!

Yeah!

Take it back y'all
Take it back, a-take it back
A-take it back y'all, come on!
Take it back y'all
Take it back, a-take it back
A-take it back y'all, come on!

Uggh!

Yeah!

Comments/Interpretations
by Freeman on 5/19/2008 9:51pm Lets UNITE...
by FREEDOM!!!!! on 7/2/2008 8:12pm lets revolt against congress and curb stomp there shit
by Anthony on 7/16/2008 9:34pm serious sweetness
by Socialist on 8/15/2008 12:26am Organize or Die
by Muffin on 8/18/2008 2:07am I love it , its awesome <33
by Che on 8/22/2008 7:31pm LET'S TAKE IT!!!! LET'S TAKE THE DAMNED POWER BACK!!!!
by System on 9/1/2008 10:08am Someday..
by Batrash on 9/21/2008 6:25pm Motherfuck Uncle Sam!
by Renegade X Sam on 9/29/2008 9:16am Get back I know who I am.
by GenerationX on 10/7/2008 8:05am Woo... the movements in motion with mass militant poetry... but apparently only on lyricsdepot.com.
by cakeisdelicious83 on 10/12/2008 9:26am cake is good
by :D? on 10/26/2008 3:40am mad song.
by rebel of the monarch on 11/10/2008 8:50pm no more fucking lies lets unionize
by JESUS on 11/23/2008 5:39pm SIT AND LISTEN TO TO SOME OF THAT BULLSHIT THAT HE LEARNED IN SCHOOL
by R.A.T.M on 11/23/2008 8:25pm ignorance has taken over...
by FUCK UNCLE SAM!! on 11/26/2008 12:05am I wrote this shit on the public chalkboards in our so called "democracy square" in the center of my university and watched as people read it and got offended. What they consider patriotism is merely ignorance....those of us who understand this song are the true patriots. Like he says, "I'm inferior, who's inferior?" I went to class and came back...it had only been half an hour, and campus police had already washed the board I wrote on. What does that tell you?
by Fuck the man on 12/2/2008 12:04am Fuck yah!
by makeitwitchu on 12/4/2008 8:55am this song is delicious.
by Miles on 12/6/2008 2:52pm I love the line The student's eyes don't perceive the lies//Bouning off every fucking wall, not enough bands today stand up for what's right
by Nick on 12/7/2008 1:51pm God dammit NO MORE LIES!
by Failing Freedoms on 1/20/2009 9:34pm I once saw a teenager spraypainting a highschool wall at 3A.M. It said "Live, Love, Learn, And don't believe a Goddamn word they say" By 6:30 when the other kids started to get there, it had been covered up, no sign whatsoever. Fuck the comment board bullshit. get up and do something. www.zeitgeistmovie.com
by SK on 1/29/2009 8:29pm Yeah, I bet you all feel real cool about your posts of hating the government and Uncle Sam and all, but we have the best government out there, and if you don't think so, you also have the right to leave. I suppose you could just sit here and swear on lyrics posts, or you could go out, try hard, and end up in the government, trying to fix this mess. Sure, it wouldn't be as easy as just talkin' crap about Uncle Sam, but at least you might make a difference. Posting all your tough guy BS on this site doesn't prove anything.
by BS on 2/5/2009 11:37am Look, a great man once said that rebellion can be a good thing. Think about that. Of course, after the first president was elected, everything like that was looked down upon. Think about it, then act!
by Down with the machine on 2/24/2009 3:54am Sickest song ever
by titz on 3/14/2009 5:35am the circle of hatred continues unless we react We gotta take the power back
by Bring my balls to your chin on 3/25/2009 11:08pm Rage against my pelvis
by marshall on 3/31/2009 7:02pm dont just agree with the song make some shit happen kill some cops, burn some schools, take em the fuck down! LET THEM KNOW!!
by maddog420 on 4/15/2009 7:03pm if u understand the new world order and all of that shit then this song really makes a lot of sense
by Old ghost on 4/22/2009 10:51pm Look, the previous administration was bullshit. After that mess I really wanted to take the power back. Zach really knows what he's saying, and to those who say " RATM says stuff but doesn't do anything to male it better" u r completely ignorant. The Popmart tour that rage went on was completely nonprofit and went to organizations like U.N.I.T.T.E. And EZLN. And to those who say that rebellion is unamerican and bad, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Jesus Christ. All were rebels. All saw that the things around them were wrong and REBELLED. So let's follow suit America and start making change. Fight for our freedom and rights and fight for our brothers rights.
by anarchylad on 5/5/2009 1:49am u got to grab the power and scream "FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME"
by carlos on 5/14/2009 4:13pm this shit is true; freedom?whovever told you that is your enemy. what freedom do we have? if we dont do what the "big amn" says we go to jail of get killed
by rebel with a cause on 5/16/2009 3:07pm freedom is lost under this bullshit administation. FUCK BIG GOVERNMENT
by Kill me on 6/1/2009 1:55am being a patriot is actually primitive..You gotta think for the welfare of everybody
by Wake up on 6/6/2009 11:54pm You socialist pigs are disgusting. Rage is a great band, but don't let their words become your life
by Rossi on 6/17/2009 10:47am As a guitar player, I'm never one to pay much attention to the sentiment or message within lyrics. What I do know is that the above lyrics sit perfectly with music of the song and bring it to life. 10/10 to Zak for his contribution to one of the best albums I've heard!
by Arthur on 6/17/2009 1:08pm Come one, Rage are one of the bands with most integrity out there. They aren't dumb kids writing what they'r producer says that sells better. They are educated, inteligent artists with an important reflection about the government we have. I'm from Portugal and I say, my government sucks ass, but America got blinded by money and ambition. " They say jump and you say how hig? " Lets break free brothers!

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