Darkness - Demo 1991
Greed
Causing innocent blood to flow
Entire culture, lost in the overthrow
They came to size and take whatever they please
And all they gave back was death and disease
My people where left no choice but to decide
To conform to a system, responsible for genocide
Responsible for genocide
Responsible for genocide
Responsible for genocide
Aids is killing the entire African nation
And a vaccine is still supposedly under preparation
But these governments, they don't mind their procrastination
They say we will kill them off
Take their land and go their for vacation (whoa!)
My people's culture was strong
It was pure and if not for that white greed
It would have endured
My people were left no choice but to decide
To conform to a system
Souls encaged, minds enslaved
I feel the rage
It's brutality can never be undone
But the sun is not yet set
The bass and drums and microphones a threat
That's when ya investigate the crimes from the inside
And see that they are responsible for genocide
Responsible for genocide
Responsible for genocide
Threw y'all culture down my throat
Say I am inferior when I find it, I choke
Ya fill my mind with a false sense of history
And then you wonder why I have no identity
We will all strike a match and it will catch
And spread the insight we need
A tiny fire, burning bright
Shedding light on the darkness of greed
A yes, yes, you all
And ya don't stop
Shedding light in the darkness of greed
A yes, yes, you all
And you don't stop
Shedding light in the darkness of greed
Causing innocent blood to flow
Entire culture, lost in the overthrow
They came to size and take whatever they please
And all they gave back was death and disease
My people where left no choice but to decide
To conform to a system, responsible for genocide
Responsible for genocide
Responsible for genocide
Responsible for genocide
Aids is killing the entire African nation
And a vaccine is still supposedly under preparation
But these governments, they don't mind their procrastination
They say we will kill them off
Take their land and go their for vacation (whoa!)
My people's culture was strong
It was pure and if not for that white greed
It would have endured
My people were left no choice but to decide
To conform to a system
Souls encaged, minds enslaved
I feel the rage
It's brutality can never be undone
But the sun is not yet set
The bass and drums and microphones a threat
That's when ya investigate the crimes from the inside
And see that they are responsible for genocide
Responsible for genocide
Responsible for genocide
Threw y'all culture down my throat
Say I am inferior when I find it, I choke
Ya fill my mind with a false sense of history
And then you wonder why I have no identity
We will all strike a match and it will catch
And spread the insight we need
A tiny fire, burning bright
Shedding light on the darkness of greed
A yes, yes, you all
And ya don't stop
Shedding light in the darkness of greed
A yes, yes, you all
And you don't stop
Shedding light in the darkness of greed
Credits
Writer(s): Zack De La Rocha, Timothy Commerford, Brad Wilk, Thomas Morello
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- Settle For Nothing - Live at Melkweg, Amsterdam - February 1993
- Bombtrack - Live at First Avenue, Minneapolis, MN - April 1993
- Take The Power Back - Live in Vancouver, B.C. - April 1993
- Freedom - Live in Vancouver, B.C. - April 1993
- Intro (Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos) - Live at Pink Pop, Hilversum, Holland - May 1996
- Zapata's Blood - Live at Pink Pop, Hilversum, Holland - May 1996
- Without A Face - Live at Pink Pop, Hilversum, Holland - May 1996
- Hadda Be Playing On the Jukebox - Live at Milan Dragway, Detroit, MI - July 1993
- Fuck tha Police - Live at the benefit concert for Mumia Abu Jamal, Washington, D.C. - August 1995
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- Universal City '93 (KROQ Broadcast)
- Live Broadcast - 17 June 1995 Irvine Meadows, Irvine CA
- Live at the Grand Olympic Auditorium
- Rage Against The Machine/Evil Empire
- The Battle of Mexico City (Live)
- Renegades
- The Battle Of Los Angeles
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