Rage Against The Machine Lyrics

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Blacksteel: In the Hour Of Chaos Lyrics

I got a letter from the government

 The other day

 I opened and read it

 It said they were suckers

 They wanted me for their army or whatever

 Picture me given' a damn - I said never

 Here is a land that never gave a damn

 About a brother like me and myself

 Because they never did

 I wasn't wit' it, but just that very minute...

 It occured to me

 The suckers had authority

 Cold sweatin' as I dwell in my cell

 How long has it been?

 They got me sittin' in the state pen

 I gotta get out - but that thought was thought before

 I contemplated a plan on the cell floor

 I'm not a fugitive on the run

 But a brother like me begun - to be another one

 Public enemy servin' time - they drew the line y'all

 To criticize me some crime - never the less

 They could not understand that I'm a Black man

 And I could never be a veteran

 On the strength, the situation's unreal

 I got a raw deal, so I'm goin' for the steel

 They got me rottin' in the time that I'm servin'

 Tellin' you what happened the same time they're throwin'

 4 of us packed in a cell like slaves - oh well

 The same motherfucker got us livin' is his hell

 You have to realize - what its a form of slavery

 Organized under a swarm of devils

 Straight up - word'em up on the level

 The reasons are several, most of them federal

 Here is my plan anyway and I say

 I got gusto, but only some I can trust - yo

 Some do a bid from 1 to 10

 And I never did, and plus I never been

 I'm on a tier where no tears should ever fall

 Cell block and locked - I never clock it y'all

 'Cause time and time again time

 They got me servin' to those and to them

 I'm not a citizen

 But ever when I catch a C-O

 Sleepin' on the job - my plan is on go-ahead

 On the strength, I'ma tell you the deal

 I got nothin' to lose

 'Cause I'm goin' for the steel

 You know I caught a C-O

 Fallin' asleep on death row

 I grabbed his gun - then he did what I said so

 And everyman's got served

 Along with the time they served

 Decency was deserved

 To understand my demands

 I gave a warnin' - I wanted the governor, y'all

 And plus the warden to know

 That I was innocent -

 Because I'm militant

 Posing a threat, you bet it's fuckin' up the government

 My plan said I had to get out and break north

 Just like with Oliver's neck

 I had to get off - my boys had the feds in check

 They couldn't do nuthin'

 We had a force to instigate a prison riot

 This is what it takes for peace

 So I just took the piece

 Black for Black inside time to cut the leash

 Freedom to get out - to the ghetto - no sell out

 6 C-Os we got we ought to put their head out

 But I'll give 'em a chance, cause I'm civilized

 As for the rest of the world, they can't realize

 A cell is hell - I'm a rebel so I rebel

 Between bars, got me thinkin' like an animal

 Got a woman C-O to call me a copter

 She tried to get away, and I popped her

 Twice, right

 Now who wanna get nice?

 I had 6 C-Os, now it's 5 to go

 And I'm serious - call me delirious

 But I'm still a captive

 I gotta rap this

 Time to break as time grows intense

 I got the steel in my right hand

 Now I'm lookin' for the fence

 I ventured into the courtyard

 Followed by 52 brothers

 Bruised, battered, and scarred but hard

 Goin' out with a bang

 Ready to bang out

 But power from the sky

 And from the tower shots rang out

 A high number of dose - yes

 And some came close

 Figure I trigger my steel

 Stand and hold my post

 This is what I mean - an anti-nigger machine

 If I come out alive and then they won't - come clean

 And then I threw up my steel bullets - flew up

 Blew up, who shot...

 What, who, the bazooka was who

 And to my rescue, it was the S1Ws

 Secured my getaway, so I just gotaway

 The joint broke, from the black smoke

 Then they saw it was rougher thatn the average bluffer

 'Cause the steel was black, the attitude exact

 Now the chase is on tellin' you to c'mon

 53 brothers on the run, and we are gone