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[Renegades]

Bombtrack
Inspired by Rage's political viewpoints, this song's main theme is about general authoritive oppression, ranging from landlords and powerwhores, to "democratic" authorities.

Killing in the Name
Some members of the police force were, and are, members of the Ku Klux Klan as well. How legitimate can a system, or a religion, be when it's authority burns crosses and practices white supremacy in the name of Jesus?

Take the Power Back
The title to this song says it all. Zack merges all the forces that be (school, government, culture, media) into one massive form of authority that robs culture in the name of uniformity.

Settle For Nothing
Possibly written in first person from the point of view of a frustrated youth in the slums.

Bullet in the Head
Don't blindly accept your gang, your religion, or even your nation. The people who walk complacently through life accepting all that is put in front of them, might as well have bullets in their heads. Television is a weapon used to pacify those who watch it into the living dead. Until people take control of their lives, they are mindless components of the entire machine.

Know Your Enemy
When we can identify those who are out to make us conform and follow blindly, we are more effective in creating change. Schools are notorious for this, and Zack identifies his teachers as his enemies because they told him to fight his own humanity.

Wake up
This song describes the operations of the FBI's "counter-intelligence" program - which was to suppress any dissident movements in the 60s. Anyone from Malcolm X to Martin Luther King Jr. was silenced for speaking out against the government's injustices and illogic. This song appeared on the Matrix - at the very end of the movie.

Fistful of Steel
This song definately shows that Zack is great as an MC - and is generally dedicated to women in the audience as a sign of respect - not romantic affection.

Township Rebellion
This song relates human freedom to the situation in South Africa. "Freedom should be fundamental: In Johannesburg, or South Central."

Freedom
The video for this song is focused on Leonard Peltier, the American Indian Movement leader who was framed by the FBI, and has rotted in a jail cell for the past 20 years. The general theme of this song is the U.S. government/media/corporations are able to convince all Americans of their "freedom", while secretly blinding them to any other reality: Making the freedom seem so much more of a reality.

[Grimer 54]

its all good