(Every official that comes in, cripples us leaves us maimed..
Silent and tamed...and with our flesh and bones, he builds his homes)
[Verse 1]
Southern fist, rise through the jungle mist
Clenched to smash power so cancerous
A black flag and a red star
A rising sun, loomin' over Los Angeles
Cause for Raza livin' in La La
Is like Gaza on to the dawn of Intifada
Reach for the lessons the masked pa** on
And seize the metropolis, it's you that it's built on
[Pre-Chorus]
Everything can change on a new years day..
Everything can change on a new years day..
Everything can change on a new years day..
And everything changed on a new years day...C'mon!
[Hook]
War within a breath!
It's land or d**h!
War within a breath!
It's land or d**h!
War within a breath!
It's land or d**h!
War within a breath!
It's land...
(Their existence is a crime
Their seat, their robe, their tie
Their land deeds, their hired guns
They're the crime)
[Verse 2]
Shots heard underground round the rapture
The world's eye captured at last in a Mexican pasture
The masked screaming land or d**h
Within a breath, a war from the depth of time
Who shot four puppet governors in a line
Who shook all the world bankers who think they can rhyme
Shot the landlords who knew it was mine
Yes, it's a war from the depth of time
[Pre-Chorus]
Ugh, Hear the masked scream..
[Hook]
It's land or d**h..
[Hook]
War within a breath!
It's land or d**h!
War within a breath!
It's land or d**h!
War within a breath!
It's land or d**h!
War within a breath!
It's land
Or d**h!
{band then clutters instruments as Tom Morello leaves an amp buzz the rest of the song}