Take the Power Back [French translation]

[Spoken:]

Crank the music up.

Bring that shit in!

Yeah, the movement's in motion

with massive militant poetry.

Now check this out.

In the right light,

Study becomes insight

But the system that dissed us

Teaches us to read and write

So-called facts are fraud

They want us to allege

And pledge

And bow down to their God

Lost the culture, the culture lost

Spun our minds and through time

Ignorance has taken over

Yo, we gotta take the power back

Bam, here's the plan:

Mother fuck Uncle Sam

Step back, I know who I am

Raise up your ear, I'll drop the style and clear

It's the beats and the lyrics they fear

The rage is relentless

We need a movement with a quickness

You are the witness of change

And to counteract

We gotta take the power back

Yeah, we gotta take the power back

Come on, come on

We gotta take the power back

The present curriculum

I put my fist in 'em

Eurocentric every last one of 'em

See right through the red, white and blue disguise

With lecture, I puncture the structure of lies

Installed in our minds and attempting

To hold us back

We've got to take it back

Holes in our spirits

Causing tears and fears

One-sided stories

For years and years and years

I'm inferior? Who's inferior?

Yeah, we need to check the interior

Of the system who cares about only one culture

And that

Is why we gotta take the power back

Yeah, we gotta take the power back

Come on, come on

Yeah, we gotta take the power back

Hey, yo, check

We're gonna have to break it, break it, break it down

Aw, shit

Like this

Come on

Yeah

Bring it back the other way

The teacher stands in front of the class

But the lesson plan he can't recall

The student's eyes don't perceive the lies

Bouncing off of every fucking wall

His composure is well kept

I guess he fears playing the fool

The complacent students sit

And listen to that bullshit that he learned in school

Europe ain't my rope to swing on

Can't learn a thing from it

Yet we hang from it

Gotta get it, gotta get it together then

Like the motherfuckin' Weathermen

To expose and close

the doors on those who try

To strangle and mangle the truth

Because the circle of hatred continues unless we react

We gotta take the power back

Yeah, we gotta take the power back

Come on, come on

Yeah, we gotta take the power back

No more lies

No more lies

No more lies

No more lies

No more lies

No more lies

No more lies

No more lies

Yeah

Take it back, y'all

Take it back and take it back and take it back, y'all

Come on

Take it back, y'all

Take it back and take it back and take it back, y'all

Come on

Yeah

• Artist:Rage Against the Machine
• Album:Rage Against the Machine (1992)