riguardo a ciò che ho detto in precedenza vorrei sottoporre all'attenzione di tutti l'attualità di due testi delle canzoni dei Rage, nonostante siano state scritte ormai quindici anni fa':

Wake up (dall'album rage against the machine del '92)

Although I try to iscredit

the still that 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 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 theirheads are flown

'Cause all these punks

Got bullets in their heads

Department of police, the judge, 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

Wit' poetry, my mind I flex

Flip like Wilson, vocals never lackin' that fitness

What I have to do to wake you up

To shake you up, to break the structure up

'Cause this blood still floods in the gutter

I'm like talkin' photos

Mad boy kicks open the shutter

Set the groove

Then I stick and move like I was Cassius

Rep the stutter step

Then bomb a left upon the facists

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

The networks at work, keepin' people calm

You know they murdered X

And tried to blame it on Islam

He turned the power to the have-nots

And then came the shot.

Take the power back (sempre dallo stesso album)

In the right light,

study becomes insight

But the system that dissed us

Teaches us to read and write

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

We gotta take the power back

Bam, Here's the plan Mother fuck Uncle Sam

Step back, I know who I am

Raise up your ear,

I'll drop the style and clear

It's the beast and lyrics they fear

The rage is relentless

We need a movement with quickness

You are the witness of change

And to counteract

We gotta take the power back

The president curriculums 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

'Cause holes in our spirits causin' tears and fears

One-sided stories for years and years and years

I'm inferior? Who's inferior?

Yea, we needa check the interior

Of the system who cares about only one culture

And that is why

We gotta take the power back

The teacher stands in front of the class

But the lesson plan he can't recall

The student's eyes don't percieve the lies

Bouncing of every fucking wall

His composure is well kept

I guess he fears playing the fool

The complacent students sit and listen to the Bull shit 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 mother fuckin 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

No more lies

ce ne sono anche altre sempre dallo stesso album ma penso che queste esprimano in maniera chiara il mio pensiero sull'argomento lanciato ieri.