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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.

[rampage]

That is some raving shit!









I just love Zacks dark side

[RageFan]

Nice Post. Good way for the people that don't understand the message within the songs.

[ChucK Taylor]

Nice Done dude

[ballzdeep]

yes, very nicely done

[DownpressorMan]

thank you very much

[Madcat05]

nice job man

[Grimer 54]

I figure eventually Ill write somethin glike this for everytsong on every CD. THen I can forever be applauded or lauded for my greatness or idiocies. Im leaning towards idiocies... heh heh

Replied to some post below, figured i should put it here too.

Bullet in the Head

-This time the bullet cold rocked ya
A yellow ribbon instead of a swastika
Nothin' proper about ya propaganda
Fools follow the rules when the set commands ya
They said it was blue
When the blood was red
That's is how you got a bullet blasted through your head-

By believing the news and propaganda you saw on the television, you've rendered youre self obsolete through ignorance, and uncapable of change. The yellow Ribbon, an american sign of support for the milatary is compared to the swastica, the Nazi party's emblem, by Zack

Blasted through your head
Blasted through your head
I give a shout out to the living dead
Who stood and watched at the feds cold centralized
So serene on the screen
You was mesmerized
Cellular phones soundin' a death tone
Corporations cold
Turn ya to stone before you realize
They load the clip in omnicolor
They pack the 9, they fire it at prime time
Sleeping gas, every home was like Alcatraz
And mutha fuckas lost their minds

Reinstating the basic premise that listening to propaganda, instead of going out and finding your own information firsthand will change you into living dead- consumers but not thinkers. By relying on machines (literally this time) and the corporations that produce them - agendas and all - they aid in the rapid destruction of free thinking and open minded america. He compares weapons...(the nine) to Information (printed in omnicolor) which is 'fired' during prime time
(the news) which is then beamed into every american home like sleeping gas, creating a prisonlike envirement for americans, in which their brain stops thinking and just "believin all the lies that they tellin' ya"

Just victims of the in - house drive - by
They say jump, you say how high

Restating the point, like any good chorus does: Your thoughts killed by the media, you're their monkey with symbols, and dammit, you'll do what they say.

They load the clip in omnicolor
They pack the 9, they fire it at prime time
Sleeping gas, every home was like Alcatraz
And mutha fuckas lost their minds

No escape from the mass mind rape
Play it again jack and then rewind the tape
Play it again and again and again
Until ya mind is locked in
Believin' all the lies that they are tellin' ya
Buying all the products that they are selling ya
They say jump
Ya say how high
Ya brain dead
Ya gotta fuckin' bullet in your head

Because of Media monopoly (that has just gotten worse since 1992) Americans have no choice due to all news being from the same point of view. Everything one sees on TV drills the same ideals into their head, 'raping' them of their own ideas.
Eventually, after so many hours of this orwellian practice, you're totally Amercanized - another product of the Capitalist American Propaganda Machine: Believing wha tyou;re told, buying what you're told -which is everything you can afford, and then some.


Just victims of the inhouse driveby
They say jump, you say how high

Ya standin' in line
Believin' the lies
Ya bowin' down to the flag
Ya got a fuckin' bullet in ya head

Just another american on the assembly line, beliving what you're told and being a good little American boy (or girl) 'enjoying your freedoms'

You're dead, you cant make any changes, you're worthless. You've succumbed to the machine.

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Great song, even if you dont necesarrily agree with everything Rage says, like me, you have to salute his description of the Media brainwashing.

This song was taken directly from Rage's demo tape, without any further producing/editing/ etc etc. When that bass line starts, sends chills down my spine.

Edit: some typos, theres a load more, screw it, i have two essays to write. Standardized testing = the bane of the american school system. Classrooms the last room to get the truth, eh?

This post has been edited by Grimer 54: Jan 11 2004, 09:34 AM

[mute]

how can u take credit for it when you didn't write it?

i read this all from another site, with the authors actual name

And I'm pretty sure that Hugh Pouliot was his name-o

This post has been edited by mute: Jan 30 2004, 10:50 PM

[Grimer 54]

. . .

I, Kevin Grimes, wrote that summary of bullet in the head...

what are you talking about?

[mute]

All Apoligies

[mute]

no, wait a minute.

I'm talking about the shit a the top of the page posted by "renegades" or someone.

This post has been edited by mute: Jan 30 2004, 10:38 PM

[mute]

sorry 'bout the confusion

[Grimer 54]

its all good

[mute]

cool