Rage Against The Machine - War Within A Breath lyrics

Album: The Battle Of Los Angeles (1999)

Every official that comes in
Cripples us leaves us maimed
Silent & tamed
And with our flesh & bones
He builds his homes

Southern fist
Rise through tha jungle mist
Clenched to smash power so cancerous
A black flag & 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 the metropolis
It is you that it is built on

Everything can change on a new yeahrs day
As everything changed on a new yeahrs day {twice}

War within a breath
It is land or death {four times}

Their existence is a crime
Their seat their robe their tie
Their land deeds
Their hired guns
They are the crime

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

Everything can change on a new yeahrs day
As everything changed on a new yeahrs day {twice}

War within a breath
It is land or death {four times}