Dead Prez - Propaganda lyrics
Intro: (news snippets)<br>Let me now turn, to our program for the future...<br>The economy right now, is extremely supportive of the president and his<br>Policies<br>Fbi scientists have found chemical traces, consistent with a bomb or a<br>Missle, on a piece of wreckage...<br>Police using clubs and tear gas against demonstrators...<br>They called me a mother -(bleeped out)-ing so-and-so...and a white<br>Facist...like they said, 'you're getting some of your own medicine'...<br><br>Singing:<br>Telling lies, to our children<br>Telling lies, to our children<br>Telling lies, to our babies<br>Only truth, can take us...<br><br>Verse 1:<br>You can't fool all the people all of the time<br>But if you fool the right ones, then the rest will fall behind<br>Tell me who's got control of your mind? your world view? <br>Is it the news or the movie you're taking your girl to? (uh)<br>Know what I'm sayin cause uncle sam got a plan<br>If you examine what they tellin us then you will understand<br>What they plantin in the seeds of the next generation<br>Feeding our children miseducation<br>No one knows if there's ufo's or any life on mars<br>Or what they do when they up in the stars<br>Because I don't believe a word of what the president said<br>He filling our head with lies got us hypnotised<br>When he be speaking in cold words about crime and poverty<br>Drugs, welfare, prisons, guns and robbery<br>It really means us, there's no excuse for the slander<br>But what's good for the goose, is still good for the gander<br>See...<br><br>Chorus:<br>I don't believe bob marley died from cancer<br>31 years ago I woulda been a panther<br>They killed huey cause they knew he had the answer<br>The views that you see in the news is propaganda<br><br>Singing:<br>Telling lies, to our children<br>Telling lies, to our children<br>Telling lies, to our babies<br>Only truth, can take us...<br><br>Verse 2:<br>I don't want no computer chip in my arm<br>I don't wanna die by a nuclear bomb<br>I say we all rush the pentagon, pull out guns<br>And grab the intercom, my first word's will be I believe<br>Man made god, outta ignorance and fear<br>If God made man, then why the hell would he put us here? <br>I thought he's supposed to be the all loving<br>The same God who let hitler put the jews in the oven<br>We don't fall for the regular shit, they try to feed us<br>All this half-ass leadership, flippin position<br>They turn politcian and shut the hell up and follow tradition<br>For your tv screen, is telling lies to your vision<br>Every channel got some brainwashed cop shit to watch<br>Running up in niggas cribs claiming that they heard shots<br>It's a plot, but busta can you tell me who's greedier? <br>Big corporations, the pigs or the media? <br>Sign of the times, terrorism on the rise<br>Commercial airplanes, falling out the sky like flies<br>Make me wonder what secrets went down with bob brown (? )<br>Who burnt churches to the ground with no evidence found? <br>It's not coincidence, it's been too many studied incidents<br>It coulda been the klan who put that bomb at the olympics<br>But it probably was the fbi, deep at the call<br>Cuz if they make us all panic then they can start martial law<br><br>Chorus:<br>I don't believe bob marley died from cancer<br>31 years ago I woulda been a panther<br>They killed huey cause they knew he had the answer<br>The views that you see in the news is propaganda<br><br>I don't believe bob marley died from cancer<br>31 years ago I woulda been a panther<br>They killed huey cause they knew he had the answer<br>The views that you see in the news is muthafuckin propaganda<br><br>Singing:<br>Police is telling lies fooling millions<br>What are they teaching our kids in these school buildings? <br>Televised, enterprised in all the killing<br>Controlling our lives, this ain't living<br>No this ain't living<br><br>Chant:<br>Fbi, cia<br>Atf, kkk<br>Irs, tnt<br>Cbs, nbc<br><br>Fbi, cia<br>Atf, kkk<br>Irs, tnt<br>Cbs, nbc<br><br>Singing:<br>Telling lies, to our children<br>Telling lies, to our children<br>Telling lies, to our babies<br>Only truth, can take us...<br><br>News snippet:<br>Uh, we view each other uh, with uh, a great love and a great understanding<br>And that we<br>Try to expand this to the general, uh, black population and also people,<br>Oppressed people all over the world, and, I think that uh, we differ from<br>Uhmm... uh, some other groups simply because we understand the system better<br>Than uh, most uh, groups understand the system, and uh, with this<br>Realisation, uh, we attempt to form a strong political base based in the<br>Community with the only strength that we have and that's the strength of uh,<br>A potentially destructive force if we don't get freedom.
