The Martyr-Immortal Technique

[ti:The Martyr] [ar:Immortal Technique] [al:The Martyr] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Martyr (烈士) - Immortal Technique [00:04.91]I am content to die for my beliefs [00:06.40] [00:09.71]So cut off my head and make me a martyr [00:13.42] [00:15.57]The people will always remember it [00:16.95] [00:19.81]No they will forget [00:22.27] [00:37.92]A man who walks with God can walk anywhere [00:41.26] [00:43.43]Hence I fear nothing [00:45.48] [00:46.21]The point of guerilla war is not to succeed [00:48.92]It's always been just to make the enemy bleed [00:51.53]Deprivin' the soldiers of the peace of mind that they need [00:54.54]Bullets are hard to telegraph when they bob and they weave [00:57.26] [00:58.04]The only way a guerilla war can ever be over [01:01.08]Is when the occupation can't afford more soldiers [01:04.03]Until they have to draft the last of you into the service [01:06.99]And you refuse because you don't see the purpose [01:09.14]The only way to counter the insurgents that are well equipped [01:12.25]Is to paint the people fightin' for freedom as terrorists [01:14.72] [01:15.41]Then find a faction lookin' for foreign investment [01:18.26]Install them in power and murder any objections [01:20.81] [01:21.47]You can't stop a revolution from breathin' [01:23.83]So to beat 'em they offer people the illusion of freedom [01:26.60]But when you're done dreamin' [01:27.66]And wake up tortured for treason [01:29.56]Then you can see them hidin' behind the God they believe in [01:32.29] [01:33.34]Deep in the trenches in the heart of a war [01:35.22] [01:35.87]That's the place a martyr is born motherf**ker it's on [01:39.22]During the night before the start of the dawn [01:41.10] [01:41.71]That's the place a martyr is born motherf**ker it's on [01:44.96]When gunshots are raining in the heart of a storm [01:47.54]That's the place a martyr is born motherf**ker it's on [01:50.80]Guerilla war when the army is gone [01:52.90] [01:53.66]That's the place a martyr is born motherf**ker it's on [01:56.77]The purpose of life is a life with a purpose [01:59.03]So I'd rather die for a cause than live a life that is worthless [02:01.93]I don't need the circus or the day of national observance [02:04.86]I need you to think for you and stop bein' a servant [02:07.76]Pawns only move a square in the game that they're used in [02:10.61]And realize it too late like the shooting of Huey Newton [02:13.93]Or Patrice Lumumba and Salvador Allende [02:16.79]Slaughtered by the power hungry branches of their own gente [02:19.85]Ghandi wasn't killed by Pakistani nationals [02:22.56]He was assassinated by a Hindu radical [02:25.41]And Che Guevara rebel to a US continent [02:28.08]Was sold to the CIA by Bolivian communists [02:31.44]Wasn't Hakluyt Rabin murdered by a Zionist [02:34.47]And Anwar Sadat a victim of the same violence [02:37.29]Malcolm X was seen as a threat to the FBI [02:40.58]But to blast em they used Muslims from the NOI [02:42.90] [02:43.51]Even the 35th President of the Republic [02:46.51]Was murdered by factions of his own government [02:48.91]So now that it's proven that a soldier of revolution [02:51.53]Or head of an empire disguised in a constitution [02:54.78]Can not escape the retribution or manipulation [02:57.62]Of the self appointed rulers of the planet's corporations [03:00.53]So I'ma need every generation to put your hands up [03:03.59]Cause you can only get em off your back when you stand up [03:06.30] [03:06.89]Deep in the trenches in the heart of a war [03:08.95] [03:09.49]That's the place a martyr is born motherf**ker it's on [03:12.89]During the night before the start of the dawn [03:14.73] [03:15.33]That's the place a martyr is born motherf**ker it's on [03:18.29]When gunshots are raining in the heart of a storm [03:21.25]That's the place a martyr is born motherf**ker it's on [03:24.49]Guerilla war when the army is gone [03:27.06]That's the place a martyr is born motherf**ker it's on [03:30.26] [03:33.23]I was a man blessed by God [03:36.14] [03:38.03]To survive some of the worst circumstances [03:40.77] [03:43.00]I had many things a beautiful woman I loved a home money [03:49.61] [03:51.46]And I gave it all up to bleed and to die free [03:55.98] [03:58.55]Sometimes I look back on that life [03:59.95]And I wonder what it would've been like [04:02.27] [04:04.61]And in moments of weakness I think about trading it [04:06.86] [04:09.19]Then I snap the f**k out of it and I get back to my reality [04:11.86] [04:14.30]And I realize that I'm in the heart of a war [04:17.93] [04:19.55]And that's the place a martyr is born