TESTIFY


    UGH!

    The movie ran through me
    The glamour subdue me
    The tabloid untie me
    I'm empty please fill me
    Mister anchor assure me
    That Baghdad is burning
    Your voice it is so soothing
    That cunning mantra of killing
    I need you my witness
    To dress this up so bloodless
    To numb me and purge me now
    Of thoughts of blaming you
    Yes the car is our wheelchair
    My witness your coughing
    Oily silence mocks the legless
    Ones who travel now in coffins
    On the corner
    The jury's sleepless
    We found your weakness
    And it's right outside our door
    Now testify

    Now testify
    It's right outside our door
    Now testify
    Yes testify
    It's right outside our door

    With precision you feed me
    My witness I'm hungry
    Your temple it calms me
    So I can carry on
    My slaving sweating the skin right off my bones
    On a bed of fire I'm choking on the smoke that fills my home
    The wrecking ball rushing
    Witness your blushing
    The pipeline is gushing
    While here we lie in tombs
    While on the corner
    The jury's sleepless
    We found your weakness
    And it's right outside your door
    Now testify
    Yeah testify
    It's right outside our door
    Now testify
    Now testify
    It's right outside our door

    Mass graves for the pump and the price is set
    Mass graves for the pump and the price is set
    Mass graves for the pump and the price is set
    Mass graves for the pump and the price is set

    Who controls the past now controls the future
    Who controls the present now controls the past
    Who controls the past now controls the future
    Who controls the present now?

    Now testify
    Testify
    It's right outside our door
    Now testify
    Testify
    It's right outside our door

    GUERILLA RADIO

    Transmission third world war third round
    A decade of the weapon of sound above ground
    No shelter if you're lookin' for shade
    I lick shots at the brutal charade
    As the polls close like a casket
    On truth devoured
    A Silent play in the shadow of power
    A spectacle monopolized
    The camera's eyes on choice disguised
    Was it cast for the mass who burn and toil?
    Or for the vultures who thirst for blood and oil?
    Yes a spectacle monopolized
    They hold the reins and stole your eyes
    Or the fistagons
    The bullets and bombs
    Who stuff the banks
    Who staff the party ranks
    More for Gore or the son of a drug lord
    None of the above fuck it cut the cord

    Lights out
    Guerrilla Radio Turn that shit up
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    Guerrilla Radio Turn that shit up
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    Guerrilla Radio

    Contact I highjacked the frequencies
    Blockin' the beltway
    Move on D.C.
    Way past the days of Bombin' M.C.'s
    Sound off Mumia guan be free
    Who gottem yo check the federal file
    All you pen devils know the trial was vile
    An army of pigs try to silence my style
    Off 'em all out that box
    It's my radio dial

    Lights out
    Guerrilla Radio Turn that shit up
    Lights out
    Guerrilla Radio Turn that shit up
    Lights out
    Guerrilla Radio Turn that shit up
    Lights out
    Guerrilla Radio Turn that shit up

    It has to start somewhere It has to start sometime
    What better place than here, what better time than now?

    All hell can't stop us now
    All hell can't stop us now
    All hell can't stop us now
    All hell can't stop us now
    All hell can't stop us now
    All hell can't stop us now

    CALM LIKE A BOMB

    Feel the funk blast
    Feel the funk blast
    Feel the funk blast
    Feel the funk blast
    Feel the funk blast
    Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, check it out, yo, yo, yo

    I be walkin' god like a dog
    My narrative fearless
    My word war returns to burn
    Like Baldwin home from Paris
    Like Steel from a furnace
    I was born landless
    This is tha native son
    Born of Zapata's guns
    Stroll through tha shanties
    And tha cities remains
    Same bodies buried hungry
    But with different last names
    These vultures rob everything
    Leave nothing but chains
    Pick a point on tha globe
    Yes tha pictures tha same
    There's a bank There's a church a myth and a hearse
    A mall and a loan a child dead at birth
    There's a widow pig parrot
    A rebel to tame
    A whitehooded judge
    A syringe and a vein

    And tha riot be tha rhyme of tha unheard
    what ya say, what ya say, what ya say, what?
    What ya say, what ya say, what ya say, what?
    What ya say, what ya say, what ya say, what?
    What ya say, what ya say, what ya say, what?

    Calm like a bomb
    Ignite, ignite, ignite, ignite, ignite, ignite, ignite, ignite, ignite Calm like a bomb
    Ignite, ignite, ignite, ignite, ignite, ignite, ignite, ignite, ignite
    This ain't subliminal
    Feel tha critical mass approach horizon
    Tha pulse of tha condemned
    Sound off America's demise
    Tha anti-myth rhythm rock shocker
    Yes I spit fire
    Hope lies in tha smoldering rubble of empires
    Yes back through tha shanties and tha cities remains
    Tha same bodies buried hungry
    But with different last names
    These vultures rob everyone
    Leave nothing but chains
    Pick a point here at home
    Yes tha picture's tha same
    There's a field full of slaves
    Some corn and some debt
    There's a ditch full of bodies
    Tha check for tha rent
    There's a tap, tha phone, tha silence of stone
    Tha numb black screen
    That be feelin' like home

    And tha riot be tha rhyme of tha unheard
    What ya say, what ya say, what ya say, what?
    What ya say, what ya say, what ya say, what?
    What ya say, what ya say, what ya say, what?
    What ya say, what ya say, what ya say, what?

    Calm like a bomb
    Ignite, ignite, ignite, ignite, ignite, ignite, ignite, ignite, ignite Calm like a bomb
    Ignite, ignite, ignite, ignite, ignite, ignite, ignite, ignite, ignite Calm like a bomb
    Ignite, ignite, ignite, ignite, ignite, ignite, ignite, ignite, ignite Calm like a bomb
    Ignite, ignite, ignite, ignite, ignite, ignite, ignite, ignite, ignite
    Calm like a bomb
    Ignite, ignite, ignite, ignite, ignite, ignite, ignite, ignite, ignite Calm like a bomb
    Ignite, ignite, ignite, ignite, ignite, ignite, ignite, ignite, ignite Calm like a bomb
    Ignite, ignite, ignite, ignite, ignite, ignite, ignite, ignite, ignite Calm like a bomb
    Ignite, ignite, ignite, ignite, ignite, ignite, ignite, ignite, ignite Calm Like a bomb

    There's a mass without roofs
    There's a prison to fill
    There's a country's soul that reads post no bills
    There's a strike and a line of cops outside of tha mill
    There's a right to obey
    And there's a right to kill
    There's a mass without roofs
    There's a prison to fill
    There's a country's soul that reads post no bills
    There's a strike and a line of cops outside of tha mill
    There's a right to obey
    And there's a right to kill

    MIC CHECK


    Oh Wait a minute now
    Ha ha ha
    Come on
    Wait a Minute Now
    Check

    To tha young r to tha e tha b to tha e tha l
    Never give up just live up
    Fed upon America
    We be spittin' it up
    Rippin' it up
    For an even amount in each cup
    To my brothers burning bare feet on black top
    Whose curled 'neath tha shadows
    From tha gaze of tha cops
    Whose huntin' for 9 to 5's through factory locks
    Is now hunted on this modern day auction block

    Mic Check, ha ha ha
    I be the anti-myth rhythm rock shocker
    Mic Check, ha ha ha ha
    I be the anti-myth rhythm rock shocker, what?
    Mic Check, ha ha ha
    I be the anti-myth rhythm rock shocker
    Mic Check, ha ha ha ha
    I be the anti-myth rhythm rock shocker, what?

    Check check check check the check, oh
    packin

    Flexin' and mashin'
    With complex text
    Fast and in a fashion
    That snap back necks
    Quicker than a fed cash tha company checks
    Come with tha fire only Marley could catch
    This be tha flame in tha cellar beware
    Nameless cold millions gaspin' for air
    Those naked and wageless
    Now scream within cages
    What, they make you pull your shit
    Just to get your share, what?

    Mic Check, ha ha ha
    I be the anti-myth rhythm rock shocker
    Mic Check, ha ha ha ha
    I be the anti-myth rhythm rock shocker, what?
    Mic Check, ha ha ha
    I be the anti-myth rhythm rock shocker
    Mic Check, ha ha ha ha
    I be the anti-myth rhythm rock shocker, what?

    Welcome down with the warrior sound, UGH!

    With this mic device
    I spit nonfiction
    Who got tha power
    This be my question
    Tha mass of tha few in this torn nation?
    Tha priest tha book or tha congregation?
    Tha politricks who rob and hold down your zone?
    Or those who give tha thieves tha key to their homes?
    Tha pig who's free to murder one Shucklak
    Or survivors who make a move and murder one back?

    This mic device
    I spit nonfiction
    Who got tha power
    This be my question
    Tha mass of tha few in this torn nation?
    Tha priest tha book or tha congregation?
    Tha politricks who rob and hold down your zone?
    Or those who give tha thieves tha key to their homes?
    Tha pig who's free to murder one Shucklak
    Or survivors who make a move and murder one back?

    Mic Check, ha ha ha
    I be the anti-myth rhythm rock shocker
    Mic Check, ha ha ha ha
    I be the anti-myth rhythm rock shocker, what?
    Mic Check, ha ha ha
    I be the anti-myth rhythm rock shocker
    Mic Check, ha ha ha ha
    I be the anti-myth rhythm rock shocker, what?

    SLEEP NOW IN THE FIRE

    YEAAAH!

    The world is my expense
    The cost of my desire
    Jesus blessed me with its future
    And I protect it with fire
    So raise your fists and march around
    Dont dare take what you need
    I'll jail and bury those committed
    And smother the rest in greed
    Crawl with me into tomorrow
    Or i'll drag you to your grave
    I'm deep inside your children
    They'll betray you in my name

    Hey!
    Hey!
    Sleep now in the fire

    Hey!
    Hey!
    Sleep now in the fire

    The lie is my expense
    The scope with my desire
    The party blessed me with its future
    And i protect it with fire
    I am the nina, the pinta, the santa maria
    The noose and the rapist, the fields overseer
    The agents of orange
    The priests of hiroshima
    The cost of my desire
    Sleep now in the fire

    Hey!
    Hey!
    Sleep now in the fire

    Hey!
    Hey!
    Sleep now in the fire

    For it's the end of history
    It's caged and frozen still
    There is no other pill to take
    So swallow the one
    That makes you ill
    The nina, the pinta, the santa maria
    The noose and the rapist, the fields' overseer
    The agents of orange
    The priests of hiroshima
    The cost of my desire
    Sleep now in the fire

    YEAAAH!

    Sleep now in the fire!
    Sleep now in the fire!
    Sleep now in the fire!
    Sleep now in the fire!

    (Tom picks up a Korean radio station on his amp.)

    BORN OF A BROKEN MAN


    My fears hunt me down
    Capturing my memories
    The frontier of loss
    They try to escape across the street where
    Jesus stripped bare
    And raped the spirit he was supposed to nurture
    In the name of my
    In the name of my

    Born of a broken man, but not a broken man
    Born of a broken man, never a broken man
    Born of a broken man, but not a broken man
    Born of a broken man, never a broken man

    Like autumn leaves his sense fell from him
    An empty glass of himself shattered somewhere within
    His thoughts like a hundred moths
    Trapped in a lampshade
    Somewhere within
    Their wings banging and burning
    On through endless night
    Forever awake he lies shaking and starving
    Praying for someone to turn off the light

    Born of a broken man, never a broken man
    Born of a broken man, but not a broken man
    Born of a broken man, never a broken man
    Born of a broken man, but not a broken man

    My fear is hunting me down
    Capturing my memories
    The frontier of laos
    They try to escape across the street where
    Jesus stripped bare
    And raped the spirit he was supposed to nurture
    In the name of my
    In the name of my

    YEAAAH!

    Born of a broken man, but not a broken man
    Born of a broken man, never a broken man
    Born of a broken man, never a broken man
    Born of a broken man, but not a broken man

    BORN AS GHOSTS


    The hills find peace
    Locked armed guard posts
    Safe from the screams
    Of the children born as ghosts
    Gates guns and alarms
    Shape the calm of the dawn
    Peering down into the basin
    Where death lives on
    When young run foaming at the mouth with hate
    When burning batons beat the freezing who shake
    Under the toxic sunsets they dine and toast
    Of walls deny the terror faced
    By the children born as ghosts

    Born as ghosts
    A warning, you sufferers, begin to speak our word
    Born as ghosts
    A warning, you sufferers, begin to speak our word
    Born as ghosts
    A warning, you sufferers, begin to speak our word
    Born as ghosts
    We're the children born as ghosts

    born as ghosts

    One book and forty ghosts stuffed in a room
    The school as a tomb
    Where home is a wasteland
    Taste the razor wire
    And thought is locked in the womb
    The tales that tear at the myth of the dream
    Myth of the dream
    Myth of the dream
    A suffering that shocks the lives off the screen
    Myth of the dream
    Myth of the dream

    Born as ghosts
    A warning, you sufferers, begin to speak our word
    Born as ghosts
    A warning, you sufferers, begin to speak our word
    Born as ghosts
    A warning, you sufferers, begin to speak our word
    Born as ghosts
    We are the children born as ghosts

    Born as ghosts
    Born as ghosts

    Born as ghosts
    A warning, you sufferers, begin to speak our word
    Born as ghosts
    A warning, you sufferers, begin to speak our word
    Born as ghosts
    A warning, you sufferers, begin to speak our word
    Born as ghosts
    We're the children born as ghosts

    Born as ghosts
    Born as ghosts

    MARIA


    Tha sun ablaze as Maria's foot
    Touches tha surface of sand
    On northern land
    As human contraband
    Some rico from Jalisco
    Passed her name to tha boss
    She stuffed ten to a truckbed
    She clutches her cross
    Here comes tha exhaust
    And it rips through her lungs
    She's off fast to tha pasture
    Like cattle she'll cross
    Degree 106
    Sweat and vomit are thrown
    And she prays and suffocates
    Upon tha memories of home
    Of Yanqui guns for blood debts on tha loans
    Of smoldering fields rape rubble and bones
    Of graves hidden trapped up in visions of war
    Of nothing no one nobody no more
    These are her mountains and skies and
    She radiates
    Through history's rivers of blood
    She regenerates
    And like tha sun disappears only to reappear
    She's eternally here
    Her time is near
    Never conquered but here

    To tear away at tha mask

    And now she got a quota
    Tha needle and thread crucifixion
    Sold and shipped across tha new line
    of Mason Dixon
    Rippin' through denim
    Tha point an inch from her vein
    Tha foreman approach
    His steps now pound in her brain
    His presence it terrifies
    And eclipses her days
    No minutes to rest
    No moment to pray
    And with a whisper
    He whips her
    Her soul chained to his will
    "My job is to kill if you forget to take your pill"
    Her arms jerks
    Tha sisters gather round her and scream
    As if in a dream
    Eyes on tha crimson stream
    Numb as her wrists spit shots of blood to tha floor
    I am nothing, no one, nobody, no more

    These are her mountains and skies and
    she radiates
    And through history's rivers of blood
    she regenerates
    And like tha sun disappears only to reappear
    Maria she's eternally here
    Her time is near
    Never conquered but here

    To tear away at tha mask
    To tear away at tha mask
    To tear away at tha mask

    No minutes to rest
    No moment to pray
    No minutes to rest
    No moment to pray
    No minutes to rest
    It eclipses her day
    Just a moment to pray

    ugh!

    To tear away at tha mask
    Away at tha mask
    To tear away at tha mask
    To tear away at tha mask

    VOICE OF THE VOICELESS


    UGH!, UGH!
    C'mon, check it

    Through steel walls
    Your voice blastin' on
    True rebel my brother Mumia
    I reflect upon
    You be tha spark
    That set tha prairie fires on
    Make tha masses a mastodon path
    To trample tha fascists on
    At fifteen exposed Philly's finest killing machine
    With boots and mad guns
    They tried to pacify you young
    Cause and effect
    Smell tha smoke and tha breeze
    My panther my brother
    We are at war until you're free

    You'll never silence tha voice of tha voiceless
    You'll never silence tha voice of tha voiceless

    You see tha powerful got nervous
    Cause he refused to be their servant
    'Cause he spit truth
    And burned like black churches
    Prose and verses
    A million poor in hearses
    Watch tha decision of Dred Scott
    As it reserves
    So long as tha rope
    Is tight around Mumia's neck
    Let there be no rich white life
    We bound to respect
    Cause and effect
    Can't ya smell tha smoke in tha breeze
    My panther my brother we are at war until you're free

    You'll never silence tha voice of tha voiceless
    You'll never silence tha voice of tha voiceless
    You'll never silence tha voice of tha voiceless
    You'll never silence tha voice of tha voiceless

    And Orwell's hell a terror era coming through
    But this little brother's watching you too
    And Orwell's hell a terror era coming through
    But this little brother's watching you too

    NEW MILLENNIUM HOMES


    Hungry people don't stay hungry for long
    They get hope from fire and smoke as they reach for tha dawn
    Hungry people don't stay hungry for long
    They get hope from fire and smoke as they reach for tha dawn

    Tha spirit of Jackson
    Now screams through tha ruins
    Through factory chains
    And tha ghost of tha union
    Tha forgotten remains
    Disappear to their new homes
    Tha knife tha thrust
    Tha life burns to tha raw bone
    Tha blood on tha floor of tha tear is still dryin'
    Cover tha spread sheets
    Tha Dow Jones skyin'
    Tha cell block live stock
    Tha bodies they buyin'
    Old south order
    New northern horizon

    Violence in all hands
    Embrace it if need be
    (Violence in all hands, Embrace it if need be)
    Livin' been warfare
    I press it to CD
    (Livin' been warfare, I press it to CD)
    Violence in all hands
    Embrace it if need be
    (Violence in all hands, Embrace it if need be)
    Livin' been warfare
    I press it to CD
    (Livin' been warfare, I press it to CD)

    A fire in tha master's house is set
    A fire in tha master's house is set
    A fire in tha master's house is set
    A fire in tha master's house is set

    Hungry people don't stay hungry for long
    They get hope from fire and smoke as the wheat grows strong
    Hungry people don't stay hungry for long
    They get hope from fire and smoke as they reach for tha dawn

    Yo, yo, check tha high tech terror
    Of tha new order athletes
    Peering into tha eyes of tha child already on trial
    These armies rippin' families apart
    Get 'em on file
    Convictions fit tha stock profile
    All tha while films of dogs
    Ripping through homes
    Ripping skin from bones
    Yes tha new millennium homes
    Privatizing through private eyes
    An era rising
    Of tha old south order
    New northern horizon

    Violence in all hands
    Embrace it if need be
    (Violence in all hands, Embrace it if need be)
    Livin' been warfare
    I press it to CD
    (Livin' been warfare, I press it to CD)
    Violence in all hands
    Embrace it if need be
    (Violence in all hands, Embrace it if need be)
    Livin' been warfare
    I press it to CD
    (Livin' been warfare, I press it to CD)

    A fire in tha master's house is set
    A fire in tha master's house is set
    A fire in tha master's house is set
    A fire in tha master's house is set

    ASHES IN THE FALL


    A mass of hands press on the market window
    Ghosts of progress
    Dressed in slow death
    Feeding on hunger
    And glaring through the promise
    Upon the food that rots slowly in the aisle
    A mass of nameless at the oasis
    That hides the graves beneath the master's hill
    Are buried for drinking
    The rivers water while
    Shackled to the the line at the empty well

    This is the new sound, just like the old sound
    Just like the noose wound, over the new ground
    This is the new sound, just like the old sound
    Just like the noose wound, over new ground

    Listen to the facist sing
    "Take hope here
    War is elsewhere
    You were chosen
    This is Gods land
    Soon we'll be free
    Of blot and mixture
    Seeds planted by our Forefathers hand"
    A mass of promises
    Begin to rupture
    Like the pockets Of the new world kings
    Like swollen stomachs In Appalachia
    Like the priest that fucked you As he whispered holy things
    A mass of tears have transform the stones now
    Sharpened on suffering
    And woven into the slings
    Hope lies in the rubble of this rich fortress
    Taking today what tomorrow never brings

    This is the new sound, just like the old sound
    Just like the noose wound, over new ground
    This is the new sound, just like the old sound
    Just like the noose wound, over the new ground
    This is the new sound, just like the old sound
    Just like the noose wound, over the new ground
    Ain't the new sound, just like the old sound
    Look at the noose now, over the, over the, over the burning ground

    Ain't it funny how the factory doors close
    Round the time that the school doors close
    Round the time that the doors of the jail cells
    Open up to greet you like the reaper
    Ain't its funny how the factory doors close
    Round the time that the school doors close
    Round the time that a hundred thousand jail cells
    Open up to greet you like the reaper

    Oh, oh
    Oasis
    This is no oasis

    This is the new sound, just like the old sound
    Just like the noose wound, over the new ground
    This is the new sound, just like the old sound
    Just like the noose wound, over the new ground

    Like ashes in the fall
    Like ashes in the fall
    Like ashes in the fall
    Like ashes in the fall
    Like ashes in the fall
    Like ashes in the fall
    Like ashes in the fall
    Like ashes in the fall
    Like ashes in the fall
    Like ashes in the fall
    Like ashes in the fall (ha, ha)
    Like ashes in the fall (ho, ho)
    Like ashes in the fall (ha, ha)
    Like ashes in the fall (ho, ho)
    Like ashes in the fall (ha, ha)
    Like ashes in the fall (ho, ho)
    Like ashes in the fall (ha, ha)
    Like ashes in the fall (ho, ho)
    Like ashes in the fall (ha, ha)
    Like ashes in the fall (ho, ho)
    Like ashes in the fall (ha, ha)
    Like ashes in the fall (ho, ho)
    Like ashes in the fall (ha, ha)
    Like ashes in the fall (ho, ho)
    Like ashes in the fall (ha, ha)

    (Zack mixed over himself)

    WAR WITHIN A BREATH


    Every official that comes in
    Cripples us leaves us maimed
    Silent and tamed
    And with our flesh and bones
    He builds his homes
    Southern fist
    Rise through tha 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 tha dawn of Intifada
    Reach for tha lessons tha masked pass on
    And seize tha metropolis
    It's you that it's built on
    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

    War within a breath
    It's land or death
    War within a breath
    It's land or death
    War within a breath
    It's land or death
    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 tha crime
    Shots heard underground round tha rapture
    Tha world's eye captured
    At last in a Mexican pasture
    Tha masked screaming land or death
    Within a breath
    A war from tha depth of time
    Who shot four puppet governors in a line
    Who shook all tha world bankers
    Who think they can rhyme
    Shot tha landlords who knew it was mine
    Yes, it's a war from tha depth of time

    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 can change on a new years day, c'mon

    Oh, Hear the masked scream
    War within a breath
    It's land or death
    War within a breath
    It's land or death
    War within a breath
    It's land or death
    War within a breath
    It's land or death

    It's land or death

    YEAAAH!
    oh, c'mon, c'mon, yes, yes, yes

    It's war within a breath
    It's land or death
    War within a breath
    It's land or death
    War within a breath
    It's land or death
    War within a breath
    It's land or death