cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/36943977

The 4th Branch Lyrics

[Intro]

1. The new age is upon us
2. And yet the past refuses to rest in its shallow grave
3. For those who hide behind the false image of the son of man
4. Shall stand before God (God, God, God, God, God, God, God)
5. It has begun, the beginning of the end
6. Yeah ... yeah ... yeah, yeah

[Verse 1]

7. The voice of racism preaching the gospel is devilish
8. A fake church called the prophet Muhammad a terrorist
9. Forgetting God is not religion, but a spiritual bond
10. And Jesus is the most quoted prophet in the Qu'ran
11. They bombed innocent people, tryna murder Saddam
12. When you gave him those chemical weapons to go to war with Iran
13. This is the information that they hold back from Peter Jennings
14. 'Cause Condoleeza Rice is just a new age Sally Hemings
15. I break it down with critical language and spiritual anguish
16. The Judas I hang with, the guilt of betraying Christ
17. You murdered him, stole his religion, and painted him white
18. Translated in psychologically tainted philosophy
19. Conservative political right-wing ideology
20. Glued together sloppily, the blasphemy of a nation
21. Got my back to the wall 'cause I'm facin' assassination
22. Guantanamo Bay, federal incarceration
23. How could this be the land of the free, home of the brave
24. Indigenous holocaust, and the home of the slaves?
25. Corporate America dancin' offbeat to the rhythm
26. You really think this country never sponsored terrorism?
27. Human rights violations, we continue the saga
28. El Savador and the Contras in Nicaragua
29. And on top of that, you still want to take me to prison
30. Just 'cause I won't trade humanity for patriotism

[Chorus]

31. It's like MKUltra, controllin' your brain
32. Suggestive thinkin’, causin’ your perspective to change
33. They want to rearrange the whole point of view of the ghetto
34. The fourth branch of the government want us to settle
35. A bandanna full of glittering generality
36. Fightin' for freedom and fightin' terror, but what's reality?
37. Read about the history of the place that we live in
38. And stop letting corporate news tell lies to your children

[Verse 2]

39. Flow like the blood of Abraham through the Jews and the Arabs
40. Broken apart like a woman's heart, abused in a marriage
41. The brink of holy war, bottled up like a miscarriage
42. Embedded correspondents don't tell the source of the tension
43. And they refuse to even mention European intervention
44. Or the massacres in Jenin, the innocent screams
45. US-manufactured missiles and M16s
46. Weapon contracts and corrupted American dreams
47. Media censorship blockin’ out the video screens
48. A continent of oil kingdoms bought for a bargain
49. Democracy is just a word when the people are starvin'
50. The average citizen made to be blind to the reason
51. A desert full of genocide where the bodies are freezin'
52. And the world doesn't believe that you fightin' for freedom
53. 'Cause you fucked the Middle East and gave birth to a demon
54. It's open season with the CIA buggin' my crib
55. Trapped in a ghetto region like a Palestinian kid
56. Where nobody gives a fuck whether you die or you live
57. I'm tryna give the truth and I know the price is my life
58. But when I'm gone they'll sing a song about Immortal Technique
59. Who beheaded the president and the princes and sheiks
60. You don't give a fuck about us, I can see through your façade
61. Like a fallen angel standing in the presence of God
62. Bitch niggas scared of the truth when it looks at you hard

[Chorus]

63. It's like MKUltra, controllin' your brain
64. Suggestive thinkin’, causin’ your perspective to change
65. They want to rearrange the whole point of view of the ghetto
66. The fourth branch of the government want us to settle
67. A bandanna full of glittering generality
68. Fightin' for freedom and fightin' terror, but what's reality?
69. Martial law is coming soon to the hood to kill you
70. While you hangin’ your flag out your project window

[Outro]

71. Yeah
72. The fourth branch of the government AKA the media
73. Seems to now have a retirement plan for ex-military officials
74. As if their opinion was at all unbiased
75. A machine shouldn't speak for men
76. So shut the fuck up, you mindless drone
77. And you know it's serious
78. When these same media outfits are spending millions of dollars on a PR campaign
79. To try to convince you they're fair and balanced
80. When they're some of the most ignorant and racist people
81. Giving that type of mentality a safe haven
82. We act like we share in the spoils of war that they do
83. We die in wars, we don't get the contracts to make money off 'em afterwards
84. We don't get weapons contracts, nigga
85. We don't get cheap labor for our companies, nigga
86. We are cheap labor, nigga
87. Turn off the news and read, nigga ... read
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