The 4th Branch-Immortal Technique

[ti:The 4th Branch] [ar:Immortal Technique] [al:Revolutionary Vol.2] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The 4th Branch - Immortal Technique [00:03.65]The new age is upon us [00:04.96] [00:06.39]And yet the past refuses to rest in its shallow grave [00:09.26] [00:10.82]For those who hide behind the false image of the son of man [00:14.63]Shall stand before God It has begun [00:22.18] [00:24.99]The beginning of the end [00:25.00] [00:28.68]Yeah [00:29.06] [00:33.30]Yeah yeah yeah [00:36.98] [00:38.11]The voice of racism preaching the gospel is devilish [00:40.29] [00:41.41]A fake church called the prophet Muhammad a terrorist [00:43.47] [00:44.41]Forgetting God is not a religion but a spiritual bond [00:46.85] [00:47.54]And Jesus is the most quoted prophet in the Qu'ran [00:50.03] [00:50.77]They bombed innocent people tryin' to murder Saddam [00:53.04] [00:53.92]When you gave him those chemical weapons to go to war with Iran [00:56.98]This is the information that they hold back from Peter Jennings [01:00.62]Cause Condoleeza Rice is just a new age Sally Hemmings [01:03.18] [01:03.87]I break it down with critical language and spiritual anguish [01:06.43] [01:07.05]The Judas I hang with the guilt of betraying Christ [01:09.23] [01:10.04]You murdered and stole his religion and painting him white [01:12.30] [01:12.92]Translated in psychologically tainted philosophy [01:14.47] [01:16.11]Conservative political right wing ideology [01:18.41] [01:19.40]Glued together sloppily the blasphemy of a nation [01:21.96] [01:22.53]Got my back to the wall cause I'm facin' assassination [01:24.90] [01:25.96]Guantanamo Bay federal incarceration [01:28.02] [01:29.08]How could this be the land of the free home of the brave [01:32.26]Indigenous holocaust and the home of the slaves [01:34.51] [01:35.19]Corporate America dancin' offbeat to the rhythm [01:37.56] [01:38.31]You really think this country never sponsored terrorism [01:40.68] [01:41.62]Human rights violations we continue the saga [01:43.87] [01:44.74]El Savador and the contras in Nicaragua [01:46.87] [01:47.92]And on top of that you still wanna take me to prison [01:50.42] [01:51.04]Just cause I won't trade humanity for patriotism [01:52.98] [01:54.29]It's like MK-ULTRA controlling your brain [01:57.47]Suggestive thinking causing your perspective to change [01:59.96] [02:00.59]They wanna rearrange the whole point of view of the ghetto [02:03.15] [02:03.71]The fourth branch of the government want us to settle [02:06.95]A bandana full of glittering generality [02:08.89] [02:09.96]Fighting for freedom and fighting terror but what's reality [02:13.32]Read about the history of the place that we live in [02:16.50]And stop letting corporate news tell lies to your children [02:19.06] [02:19.93]Flow like the blood of Abraham through the Jews and the Arabs [02:22.87]Broken apart like a woman's heart abused in a marriage [02:26.11]The brink of holy war bottled up like a miscarriage [02:28.49] [02:29.23]Embedded correspondents don't tell the source of the tension [02:32.47]And they refuse to even mention European intervention [02:34.72] [02:35.78]Or the massacres in Jenin the innocent screams [02:38.10] [02:38.77]U S manufactured missles and M-16's [02:40.46] [02:42.02]Weapon contracts and corrupted American dreams [02:43.64] [02:45.21]Media censorship blocking out the video screens [02:47.65] [02:48.27]A continent of oil kingdoms bought for a bargain [02:51.51]Democracy is just a word when the people are starvin' [02:54.56]The average citizen made to be blind to the reason [02:57.81]A desert full of genocide where the bodies are freezin' [03:00.61] [03:01.12]And the world doesn't believe that you fightin' for freedom [03:03.42] [03:04.17]Cause you f**ked the Middle East and gave birth to a demon [03:07.29]It's open season with the CIA bugging my crib [03:08.91] [03:10.73]Trapped in a ghetto region like a Palestinian kid [03:12.35] [03:13.72]Where nobody gives a f**k whether you die or you live [03:16.71]I'm tryin' to give the truth and I know the price is my life [03:19.88]But when I'm gone they'll sing a song about Immortal Technique [03:22.44] [03:23.19]Who beheaded the President and the princes and sheiks [03:25.75] [03:26.51]You don't give a f**k about us I can see through your facade [03:29.59]Like a fallen angel standing in the presence of God [03:31.78] [03:32.65]B**ch niggaz scared of the truth when it looks at you hard [03:35.89]It's like MK-ULTRA controlling your brain [03:39.08]Suggestive thinking causing your perspective to change [03:41.14] [03:42.21]They wanna rearrange the whole point of view in the ghetto [03:45.44]The fourth branch of the government want us to settle [03:48.51]A bandana full of glittering generality [03:50.81] [03:51.56]Fighting for freedom and fighting terror but what's reality [03:54.05] [03:54.80]Martial law is coming soon to the hood to kill you [03:58.36]While you hanging your flag out your project window [04:00.61] [04:02.29]Yeah [04:02.67] [04:04.48]The fourth branch of the government AKA the media [04:07.16] [04:07.73]Seems to now have a retirement plan for ex-military officials [04:10.29] [04:12.28]As if their opinion was at all unbiased [04:14.58] [04:15.40]A machine shouldn't speak for men [04:17.34] [04:18.09]So shut the f**k up you mindless drone [04:20.26] [04:21.14]And you know it's serious [04:22.26] [04:22.88]When these same media outfits are spending millions of dollars on a PR campaign [04:27.44] [04:28.37]To try to convince you they're fair and balanced [04:31.07] [04:31.81]When they're some of the most ignorant and racist people [04:35.18]Giving that type of mentality a safe haven [04:36.92] [04:38.37]We act like we share in the spoils of war that they do [04:41.29] [04:42.16]We die in wars we don't get the contracts to make money off 'em afterwards [04:46.17] [04:47.22]We don't get weapons contracts ni**a [04:48.90] [04:49.91]We don't get cheap labor for our companies ni**a [04:52.02] [04:52.83]We are cheap labor ni**a [04:54.59] [04:55.15]Turn off the news and read ni**a [04:56.89] [04:58.08]Read read read