Immortal Technique - The 4th Branch |
The 4th Branch
Immortal Technique And yet the past refuses to rest in its shallow grave The new age is upon us shall stand before God!!! It has begun For those who hide behind the false image of the son of man The beginning of the end Yeah.. Yeah... yeah, yeah The voice of racism preaching the gospel is devilish A fake church called the prophet Muhammad a terrorist And Jesus is the most quoted prophet in the Qu'ran Forgetting God is not a religion, but a spiritual bond They bombed innocent people, tryin' to murder Saddam This is the information that they hold back from Peter Jennings When you gave him those chemical weapons to go to war with Iran Cause Condoleeza Rice is just a new age Sally Hemmings I break it down with critical language and spiritual anguish The Judas I hang with, the guilt of betraying Christ You murdered and stole his religion, and painting him white Translated in psychologically tainted philosophy Conservative political right wing, ideology Got my back to the wall, cause I'm facin' assassination Glued together sloppily, the blasphemy of a nation Guantanamo Bay, federal incarceration How could this be, the land of the free, home of the brave? Indigenous holocaust, and the home of the slaves You really think this country, never sponsored terrorism? Corporate America, dancin' offbeat to the rhythm Human rights violations, we continue the saga El Savador and the contras in Nicaragua And on top of that, you still wanna take me to prison Just cause I won't trade humanity for patriotism It's like MKSuggestive thinking, causing your perspective to change The fourth branch of the government, want us to settle They wanna rearrange the whole point of view of the ghetto A bandana full of glittering, generality Fighting for freedom and fighting terror, but what's reality? Read about the history of the place that we live in And stop letting corporate news tell lies to your children [Verse 2] Flow like the blood of Abraham through the Jews and the Arabs Broken apart like a woman's heart, abused in a marriage The brink of holy war, bottled up, like a miscarriage Embedded correspondents don't tell the source of the tension And they refuse to even mention, European intervention Or the massacres in Jenin, the innocent screams U.S. manufactured missles, and MWeapon contracts and corrupted American dreams Media censorship, blocking out the video screens A continent of oil kingdoms, bought for a bargain Democracy is just a word, when the people are starvin' A desert full of genocide, where the bodies are freezin' The average citizen, made to be, blind to the reason And the world doesn't believe that you fightin' for freedom Cause you fucked the Middle East, and gave birth to a demon Trapped in a ghetto region like a Palestinian kid It's open season with the CIA, bugging my crib Where nobody gives a fuck whether you die or you live I'm tryin' to give the truth, and I know the price is my life But when I'm gone they'll sing a song about Immortal Technique Who beheaded the President, and the princes and sheiks Like a fallen angel standing in the presence of God You don't give a fuck about us, I can see through your facade Bitch niggaz scared of the truth, when it looks at you hard It's like MKSuggestive thinking, causing your perspective to change They wanna rearrange the whole point of view in the ghetto The fourth branch of the government, want us to settle A bandana full of glittering, generality Fighting for freedom and fighting terror, but what's reality? Martial law is coming soon to the hood, to kill you While you hanging your flag out your project window [Talking] The fourth branch of the government AKA the media Yeah.. Seems to now have a retirement plan for exA machine shouldn't speak for men As if their opinion was at all unbiased So shut the fuck up you mindless drone! And you know it's serious When these same media outfits are spending millions of dollars on a PR campaign To try to convince you they're fair and balanced When they're some of the most ignorant, and racist people We act like we share in the spoils of war that they do Giving that type of mentality a safe haven We don't get weapons contracts, nigga! We die in wars, we don't get the contracts to make money off 'em afterwards! We don't get cheap labor for our companies, nigga! We are cheap labor, nigga! Turn off the news and read, nigga! Read... read... read... |