Body of War Songs That Inspired an Iraq War Veteran movie - The 4th Branch lyrics

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Song by Immortal Techniqu<br /><br>

[Talking] <br>

The new age is upon us <br>

And yet the past refuses to rest in its shallow grave <br>

For those who hide behind the false image of the son of man <br>

shall stand before God!!! It has begun <br>

The beginning of the end <br>

Yeah.. <br>

Yeah... yeah, yeah <br>

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[Verse 1] <br>

The voice of racism preaching the gospel is devilish <br>

A fake church called the prophet Muhammad a terrorist <br>

Forgetting God is not a religion, but a spiritual bond <br>

And Jesus is the most quoted prophet in the Qu'ran <br>

They bombed innocent people, tryin' to murder Saddam <br>

When you gave him those chemical weapons to go to war with Iran <br>

This is the information that they hold back from Peter Jennings <br>

Cause Condoleeza Rice is just a new age Sally Hemmings <br>

I break it down with critical language and spiritual anguish <br>

The Judas I hang with, the guilt of betraying Christ <br>

You murdered and stole his religion, and painting him white <br>

Translated in psychologically tainted philosophy <br>

Conservative political right wing, ideology <br>

Glued together sloppily, the blasphemy of a nation <br>

Got my back to the wall, cause I'm facin' assassination <br>

Guantanamo Bay, federal incarceration <br>

How could this be, the land of the free, home of the brave? <br>

Indigenous holocaust, and the home of the slaves <br>

Corporate America, dancin' offbeat to the rhythm <br>

You really think this country, never sponsored terrorism? <br>

Human rights violations, we continue the saga <br>

El Savador and the contras in Nicaragua <br>

And on top of that, you still wanna take me to prison <br>

Just cause I won't trade humanity for patriotism <br>

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[Hook] <br>

It's like MK-ULTRA, controlling your brain <br>

Suggestive thinking, causing your perspective to change <br>

They wanna rearrange the whole point of view of the ghetto <br>

The fourth branch of the government, want us to settle <br>

A bandana full of glittering, generality <br>

Fighting for freedom and fighting terror, but what's reality? <br>

Read about the history of the place that we live in <br>

And stop letting corporate news tell lies to your children <br>

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[Verse 2] <br>

Flow like the blood of Abraham through the Jews and the Arabs <br>

Broken apart like a woman's heart, abused in a marriage <br>

The brink of holy war, bottled up, like a miscarriage <br>

Embedded correspondents don't tell the source of the tension <br>

And they refuse to even mention, European intervention <br>

Or the massacres in Jenin, the innocent screams <br>

U.S. manufactured missles, and M-16's <br>

Weapon contracts and corrupted American dreams <br>

Media censorship, blocking out the video screens <br>

A continent of oil kingdoms, bought for a bargain <br>

Democracy is just a word, when the people are starvin' <br>

The average citizen, made to be, blind to the reason <br>

A desert full of genocide, where the bodies are freezin' <br>

And the world doesn't believe that you fightin' for freedom <br>

Cause you fucked the Middle East, and gave birth to a demon <br>

It's open season with the CIA, bugging my crib <br>

Trapped in a ghetto region like a Palestinian kid <br>

Where nobody gives a fuck whether you die or you live <br>

I'm tryin' to give the truth, and I know the price is my life <br>

But when I'm gone they'll sing a song about Immortal Technique <br>

Who beheaded the President, and the princes and sheiks <br>

You don't give a fuck about us, I can see through your facade <br>

Like a fallen angel standing in the presence of God <br>

Bitch niggaz scared of the truth, when it looks at you hard <br>

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[Hook] <br>

It's like MK-ULTRA, controlling your brain <br>

Suggestive thinking, causing your perspective to change <br>

They wanna rearrange the whole point of view in the ghetto <br>

The fourth branch of the government, want us to settle <br>

A bandana full of glittering, generality <br>

Fighting for freedom and fighting terror, but what's reality? <br>

Martial law is coming soon to the hood, to kill you <br>

While you hanging your flag out your project window <br>

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[Talking] <br>

Yeah.. <br>

The fourth branch of the government AKA the media <br>

Seems to now have a retirement plan for ex-military officials <br>

As if their opinion was at all unbiased <br>

A machine shouldn't speak for men <br>

So shut the fuck up you mindless drone! <br>

And you know it's serious <br>

When these same media outfits are spending millions of dollars on a PR campaign <br>

To try to convince you they're fair and balanced <br>

When they're some of the most ignorant, and racist people <br>

Giving that type of mentality a safe haven <br>

We act like we share in the spoils of war that they do <br>

We die in wars, we don't get the contracts to make money off 'em afterwards! <br>

We don't get weapons contracts, nigga! <br>

We don't get cheap labor for our companies, nigga! <br>

We are cheap labor, nigga! <br>

Turn off the news and read, nigga! <br>

Read... read... read...<br>

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