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Wake Up by Rage Against the Machine

Release Date
Tue Nov 03 1992
Produced by
Garth Richardson & Rage Against the Machine
Writed by
Tim Commerford & Brad Wilk & Tom Morello & Zack de la Rocha
About

The lyrical themes of “Wake Up” mainly form a critique of both racism within the American government and the FBI’s counter-intelligence programs aimed towards surveilling domestic political organisations. An FBI memo is sampled in the song, in which J. Edgar Hoover suggests a need to suppress the bl...

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Wake Up Lyrics

[Intro]
Come on
Ugh
Come on

[Verse 1]
Although ya try to discredit, ya still never read it
The needle, I'll thread it, radically poetic
Standin' with the fury that they had in '66
And like E-Double "I'm Mad", still knee deep in the system's shit
Hoover, he was a body remover
I'll give you a dose but it can never come close
To the rage built up inside of me
Fist in the air in the land of hypocrisy
Movements come and movements go
Leaders speak, movements cease when their heads are flown
'Cause all these punks got bullets in their heads
Departments of police, (What!) the judges (What!), the feds
Networks at work, keeping people calm
You know they went after King when he spoke out on Vietnam
He turned the power to the have-nots
And then came the shot

[Interlude 1]
Yeah
Yeah, back in this

[Verse 2]
With poetry my mind I flex
"Flip" like Wilson, vocals never lackin' that finesse
What do I got to, what do I got to do to wake you up?
To shake you up, to break the structure up?
'Cause blood still flows in the gutter
I'm like taking photos, mad boy kicks open the shutter
Set the groove, then stick and move like I was Cassius
Rep the "Stutter Step" then bomb a left upon the fascists
Yeah, several federal men
Who pulled schemes on the dream and put it to an end
You better beware the retribution with mind war
20/20 visions and murals with metaphors
Networks at work, keepin' people calm
Ya know they murdered X and tried to blame it on Islam
He turned the power to the have-nots
And then came the shot

[Instrumental Break]

[Bridge]
What was the price on his head?
What was the price on his head!?
I think I heard a shot
I think I heard a shot
I think I heard a shot
I think I heard a shot
I think I heard a shot
I think I heard, I think I heard a shot

[Interlude 2]
Black Nationalism
[He] may be a brave contender for this position
But should he abandon his supposed 'obedience'
To the 'White liberal doctrine' of non-violence
And embrace Black Nationalism
Through counter-intelligence, it should be possible
To pinpoint potential troublemakers and neutralize them
Through counter-intelligence, it should be possible
To pinpoint potential troublemakers and neutralize them
And neutralize them, and neutralize them
And neutralize them, and neutralize them
And neutralize them

[Chorus]
Wake up!
Wake up!
Wake up!
Wake up!
Wake up!
Wake up!
Wake up!
Wake up!

[Instrumental Break/Guitar Solo]

[Outro]
How long? Not long
'Cause what you reap is what you sow

Wake Up Q&A

Who wrote Wake Up's ?

Wake Up was written by Tim Commerford & Brad Wilk & Tom Morello & Zack de la Rocha.

Who produced Wake Up's ?

Wake Up was produced by Garth Richardson & Rage Against the Machine.

When did Rage Against the Machine release Wake Up?

Rage Against the Machine released Wake Up on Tue Nov 03 1992.

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