"Rage Against the Machine"
"Rage Against the Machine"
Take the Power Back
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Rage Against the Machine
жанры: rock, metal
альбомы: Rage Against the Machine, 3 CD Set, Live & Rare, Freedom
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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 backYeah, we gotta take the power back Come on, come on! We gotta take the power backThe 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 backYeah, we gotta take the power back Come on, come on! We gotta take the power backHey yo check, we're gonna have to break it, break it, break it down Aw shit! Ugh! And like this Ugh! 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 Bouncing 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 backYeah, we gotta take the power back Come on, come on! We gotta take the power backNo more lies Ugh! 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!Ugh! Yeah!
Rage Against The Machine — дебютный студийный альбом рэп-металл группы Rage Against The Machine, выпущенный 11 ноября 1992 года. В 2001 году журнал Q назвал альбом Rage Against The Machine одним из 50 лучших тяжёлых альбомов всех времён. Диск включён в книгу 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die (1001 Альбом, которые ты должен услышать до того, как умрёшь). В 2003 году пластинка получила почётное 368 место в списке 500 величайших альбомов всех времён по версии журнала Rolling Stone.
На обложке альбома находится легендарное фото знаменитого Тхить Куанг Дыка, вьетнамского буддийского монаха, сжигающего себя в Сайгоне в 1963 году. Таким жестом монах выразил протест президенту Нго Динь Зьему, гнетущего буддийскую религию.
В 2011 году обложка альбома заняла пятое место в списке лучших обложек альбомов всех времен по мнению читателей интернет издания Music Radar.