4th Branch Lyrics - Revolutionary, Vol. 2 - Immortal Technique

[Talking] 

The new age is upon us 

And yet the past refuses to rest in its shallow grave 

For those who hide behind the false image of the son of man 

shall stand before God!!! It has begun 

The beginning of the end 

Yeah.. 

Yeah... yeah, yeah 

[Verse 1] 

The voice of racism preaching the gospel is devilish 

A fake church called the prophet Muhammad a terrorist 

Forgetting God is not a religion, but a spiritual bond 

And Jesus is the most quoted prophet in the Qu'ran 

They bombed innocent people, tryin' to murder Saddam 

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

This is the information that they hold back from Peter Jennings 

Cause Condoleeza Rice is just a new age Sally Hemmings 

I break it down with critical language and spiritual anguish 

The Judas I hang with, the guilt of betraying Christ 

You murdered and stole his religion, and painting him white 

Translated in psychologically tainted philosophy 

Conservative political right wing, ideology 

Glued together sloppily, the blasphemy of a nation 

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

Guantanamo Bay, federal incarceration 

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

Indigenous holocaust, and the home of the slaves 

Corporate America, dancin' offbeat to the rhythm 

You really think this country, never sponsored terrorism? 

Human rights violations, we continue the saga 

El Savador and the contras in Nicaragua 

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

Just cause I won't trade humanity for patriotism 

[Hook] 

It's like MK-ULTRA, controlling your brain 

Suggestive thinking, causing your perspective to change 

They wanna rearrange the whole point of view of the ghetto 

The fourth branch of the government, want us to settle 

A bandana full of glittering, generality 

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

Read about the history of the place that we live in 

And stop letting corporate news tell lies to your children 

[Verse 2] 

Flow like the blood of Abraham through the Jews and the Arabs 

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

The brink of holy war, bottled up, like a miscarriage 

Embedded correspondents don't tell the source of the tension 

And they refuse to even mention, European intervention 

Or the massacres in Jenin, the innocent screams 

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

Weapon contracts and corrupted American dreams 

Media censorship, blocking out the video screens 

A continent of oil kingdoms, bought for a bargain 

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

The average citizen, made to be, blind to the reason 

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

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

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

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

Trapped in a ghetto region like a Palestinian kid 

Where nobody gives a fuck whether you die or you live 

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

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

Who beheaded the President, and the princes and sheiks 

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

Like a fallen angel standing in the presence of God 

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

[Hook] 

It's like MK-ULTRA, controlling your brain 

Suggestive thinking, causing your perspective to change 

They wanna rearrange the whole point of view in the ghetto 

The fourth branch of the government, want us to settle 

A bandana full of glittering, generality 

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

Martial law is coming soon to the hood, to kill you 

While you hanging your flag out your project window 

[Talking] 

Yeah.. 

The fourth branch of the government AKA the media 

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

As if their opinion was at all unbiased 

A machine shouldn't speak for men 

So shut the fuck up you mindless drone! 

And you know it's serious 

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

To try to convince you they're fair and balanced 

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

Giving that type of mentality a safe haven 

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

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

We don't get weapons contracts, nigga! 

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

We are cheap labor, nigga! 

Turn off the news and read, nigga! 

Read... read... read...