[Immortal Technique]
The ghetto is like a prison, with invisible bars
No matter where you ride, it always follows you where you are
And its hard out there, for a pimp to get outta
But its harder for the hooker that he beat the sh** outta
I got n***as underground in the Confederate States
Ironically runnin from slavery that prison creates
So I never hate on the south, I respect they vision
I just hate on n***as that promote Samboism
And white execs that love to see us in that position
They reflect the stereotypes of Americas vision
They want us dancing, cooning and hollering
Only respect us for playing sports and modeling
More than racism, its stay in your place-ism
More people are trapped in practical blackface-ism
So f** a Civil War between the North and the South
Its between field n***as and slaves that are stuck in the house
[Chorus: Chuck D]
Civil war for the soul of a nation
This is a struggle to save civilization
Demonstrations overthrowing the occupation
The annihilation of mental colonization
Civil war for the soul of a nation
We fight for the future of our civilization
Destroy the corrupt government organizations
Trying to survive cultural a**a**ination
[k**er Mike]
Crip n***as, Blood n***a, eses, Asians
Why the f** we warring with each others population?
The devil wanna dead all our population
People in Folk nation, why the separation?
Why we got Jamaicans hatin on Haitians
When the British and French raped both nations?
Mexicans and Blacks k** each other, straight hating
While the government profits from prison population
If you on the bottom, be you Anglo or Asian
You gotta recognize the realness of what Im sayin
You gotta recognize another G aint the enemy
When the police ride to k** us frequently
We gotta make the youth see, where the truth be
If you a G, then grow and develop GD
50 years of gangs and our people still poor
If we really run the streets, we should really end war
[Chorus: Chuck D]
Civil war for the soul of a nation
This is a struggle to save civilization
Demonstrations overthrowing the occupation
The annihilation of mental colonization
Civil war for the soul of a nation
We fight for the future of our civilization
Destroy the corrupt government organizations
Trying to survive cultural a**a**ination
[Brother Ali]
Listen, our hearts were torn apart just like yall was
Watching towers full of souls fall to sawdust
Everytime we called your office you ignored us
Now you holding hearings on us all inside a Congress
Microscopes on us, ask if were Jihadists
My answer was in line with all of the Founding Fathers
I think Patrick said it best; Give me liberty or d**h
I shall never accept anything less
You claim innocence, you play victimless
But you gave the kiss of d**h in the name of self defense
Slavery and theft have brought the nations to the end
Of pacifying your citizenry with excess
We believe in freedom, justice, security
But theyre only pure when theyre applied universally
So certainly if I rage against the machine
My aim was only to clean the germs out of the circuitry
Heard you need putting fear inside your heart
Make you burn Qurans and tell me not to build a mosque
Me, my wife and babies we aint never made jihad
We just want to touch our heads to the floor and talk to God
Ask him to remove every blemish from my heart
The greatest threat of harm doesnt come from any bomb
The moment you refuse the human rights of just a few
What happens when that few includes you?
Civil war