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Rattle The Cage is the first single released off NOENEMIES. It was released early following the election of Donald Trump on November 9, 2016.
[Verse 1: Jonny 5]
I can’t get my computer to boot cancel everything
There’s an active shooter on a new campus everyday
What’s that hafta do with me, my movement would never take
Anybody’s life
What I hafta do to prove it to you? Whatever, say:
We are not alike
We are not alike
Look at me look at you
I can see what you do from the evil I separate
Look at you look at me I maneuver and flee from you people I segregate
Get it straight
We are not alike I don’t peddle hate
I just go to the booth and I meditate
And I breathe and I eat and I puke and I defecate
[Hook]
Don't rattle the cage if you wanna come out
Don't rattle the cage if you wanna come out
[Verse 2]
Fire in the sky
Masses at the border
Shadows in the night
Faces of disorder
Rivers made of blood
Skeletons in closets
Bodies in the mud
Torturers on crosses
Wretched of the earth
Undeserved sentence
Reckoning of curses
Long awaited vengeance
Executed messengers piled up upon the entrance
Clamor of the stenches threaten overwhelm the senses
[Hook]
Don't rattle the cage if you wanna come out
Don't rattle the cage if you wanna come out
Don't rattle the cage if you wanna come out
Don't rattle the cage if you wanna come out
[Verse 3: Jonny 5]
There’s an active shooter on the news and I speculate
That it has to do with something you bastards said today
See your attitudes and backwards views they miseducate
It is not all right
All the chatter you decide to spew when you agitate
Til they slaughter life
It is not all right
You’re not speaking the truth I can see what you do to the people make them afraid
Look at you look at me
See your movement is evil we need to eradicate
Get away
It is not all right that you peddle hate
You’re the reason I rally and rattle cage
Cuz you’re leavin the people not breathing and dead afraid
[Bridge]
We rattle the cage cause we wanna come out
In the war against fear
We rattle the cage cause we wanna come out
We are on the same side
We rattle the cage cause we wanna come out
In the war against fear
We wanna come out
We are on the same side
We rattle the cage cause we wanna come out
That's why we rattle the cage
That's why we rattle the cage
Rattle the Cage was written by Brer Rabbit & Jonny 5 (USA).
Rattle the Cage was produced by Gabriel Otto & Flobots.
Flobots released Rattle the Cage on Wed Nov 09 2016.
In a Facebook Live chat on January 30, 2017, Jonny 5 said, regarding Rattle The Cage:
There are two voices in that song. You tell me if they’re yelling at each other or two different voices or the same person getting more and more angry. Either way, when all our activism is two-dimensional and onli...
Speaking to the Song Facts blog, Jonny 5 explained:
The origin is really mundane. Mackenzie [Gault], our viola player, has dogs. They were inside the crates, shaking the crates, and she was saying, “Don’t rattle the cage if you want to come out,” telling them to calm down. That melody came to her a...