Alternative Rock: "Wake Up" - Rage Against the Machine

Come on!

Uggh!

Come on, although ya try to discredit
Ya still never edit
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 ya a dose
But it'll 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, the judges, the feds
Networks at work, keepin' 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

Yeah!
Yeah, back in this...
Wit' poetry, my mind I flex
Flip like Wilson, vocals never lackin' dat finesse
Whadda I got to, whadda I got to do to wake ya up
To shake ya up, to break the structure up
'Cause blood still flows in the gutter
I'm like takin' 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
Yea, the several federal men
Who pulled schemes on the dream
And put it to an end
Ya better beware
Of 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

Uggh!
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

'He may be a real contender for this position should he
abandon his supposed obediance to white liberal doctrine
of non-violence...and embrace black nationalism'
'Through counter-intelligence it should be possible to
pinpoint potential trouble-makers...And neutralize them,
neutralize them, neutralize them'

Wake up! Wake up! Wake up! Wake up!
Wake up! Wake up! Wake up! Wake up!

How long? Not long, cause what you reap is what you sow

RATM se formo en 1990 por Tom Morello y Zach de la Rocha. Junto con Tim Commerford y Brad Wilk tocarón toda la década de los 90 hasta el año 2000. En Abril de 2007 volvieron a tocar en el festival de Coachella en California y a raíz de esto la banda ha continuado dando conciertos en varios festivales. Incluso no se descarta la posibilidad de sacar un nuevo disco.

RATM ha publicado cuatro discos de estudios en sus 10 años de vida. Comenzaron con con su álbum homónimo Rage Against The Machine en 1992. El álbum fue seleccionado en el # 1 de Billboard. La canción de hoy Wake Up pertenece a este primer disco y a la banda sonora de Matrix. En 1996 sacan al mercado Evil Empire. Debutó en el # 1 del Billboard's Top 200. The Battle of Los Angeles ha sido el disco mas popular de la banda salió en 1999 ganando el Grammy al mejor disco de Rock. En 2000 sale el ultimo disco Renegades. Este trabajo consiste íntegramente en canciones de otros grupos tales como Minor Threat, MC5, The Rolling Stones, Cypress Hill, y Devo. Fue lanzado en el 2000, tiempo después de que Zack de la Rocha anunciara que dejaba al grupo.

RATM es un grupo conocido por sus letras políticas contra el capitalismo y la globalización. Se les acusa por antipatriotismo y han sido censurados en varias emisoras después del 11 de Septiembre. El nombre de la banda significa la lucha de los componentes contra la "Machine" según Morello, representa la globalización, el neoliberalismo, la alienación, el racismo, la brutalidad, la elite y la ignorancia, entre otras ideas.