Immortal Technique - Civil War lyrics

rate me

The ghetto is like a prison with invisible bars

No matter where you at, it always follows you where you are

And it's hard out there for a pimp to get out of

But it's harder for the hooker that he beat the shit out of

I got niggas underground in the confederate states

I find it? running the slavery that prison creates

So I never hate on the south: I respect their vision

I just hate on niggas that promote samboism

And white execs that love to see us in that position

They reflect the stereotypes of america's vision

They want us dancing, cooning and hollering

Only respect us for playing sports and modeling

More than racism: it's stay in your place-ism

More people are trapped in practical blackface-ism

So fuck a civil war between the north and the south

It's between field niggas and slaves that are stuck in the house

Civil war for the soul of a nation

This is a struggle to save civilization

Demonstrations overthrowing the occupation

The annihilation of mental colonization

Civil war for the soul of a nation

We fight for the future of our civilization

Destroy the corrupt government organizations

Trying to survive cultural assasination

Crip niggas, blood nigga, eses, asians

Why the fuck we warring with each other's population?

If you ever wanna dead all our population

People in? nation, why the separation?

Why we got jamaicans hating on hatians?

When the british and french raped both nations

Mexicans and blacks kill each other: straight hating

While the government profits from prison population

If you on the bottom, be you anglo or asian

You gotta understand the realness of what I'm saying

You gotta recognize another g at the enemy

When the police ride, they fear us frequently

We gotta make you see where the truth be

If you a g, then go and develop gd

50 years of gangs and our people still poor

If we running from the streets we should really end war

Our hearts were torn apart just like y'alls was

Watching towers full of souls fall to sawdust

Everytime we called your office you ignored us

Now you holding hearings all inside of congress

Microscopes on us, ask if we're jihadists

My answer was in line with all of the founding fathers

I think patrick said it best: give me liberty or death

I shall never accept anything less

You claimi innocence

You say you're victimless

But you gave the kiss of death in the name of self-defense

Slavery and theft have brought our nations to the end

Pacify your citizenry with success

We believe in freedom, justice, security

But they're only good when applied universally

Certainly if I rage against the machine

My aim was only to clean the germs out of the circuitry

Heard you need putting fear inside your heart

Make you burn qu'rans and tell me not to build a mosque

Me, my wife and babies we ain't never made jihad

We just want to touch our heads to the floor and talk to god

Ask him to remove every blemish from our heart

The greatest threat abroad doesn't come from any bomb

The moment you refuse the human rights of just a few

What happens when that few includes you? civil war