War Within A Breath

Album: The Battle Of Los Angeles (1999)
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  • Every official that comes in
    Cripples us leaves us maimed
    Silent and tamed
    And with our flesh and bones
    He builds his homes
    Southern fist
    Rise through tha jungle mist
    Clenched to smash power so cancerous
    A black flag and a red star
    A rising sun loomin' over Los Angeles
    Yes for raza livin in la la
    Is like gaza on to tha dawn of intifada
    Reach for tha lessons tha masked pass on
    And seize tha metropolis
    It's you that it's built on
    Everything can change on a new years day
    Everything can change on a new years day
    Everything can change on a new years day
    And everything changed on a new years day, come on

    War within a breath
    It's land or death
    War within a breath
    It's land or death
    War within a breath
    It's land or death
    War within a breath
    It's land!

    Their existence is a crime
    Their seat their robe their tie
    Their land deeds
    Their hired guns
    They're tha crime
    Shots heard underground round tha rapture
    Tha world's eye captured
    At last in a Mexican pasture
    Tha masked screaming land or death
    Within a breath
    A war from tha depth of time
    Who shot four puppet governors in a line
    Who shook all tha world bankers
    Who think they can rhyme
    Shot tha landlords who knew it was mine
    Yes, it's a war from tha depth of time

    Everything can change on a new years day
    Everything can change on a new years day
    Everything can change on a new years day
    And everything can change on a new years day, come on

    Oh, hear the masked scream
    War within a breath
    It's land or death
    War within a breath
    It's land or death
    War within a breath
    It's land or death
    War within a breath
    It's land or death

    It's land or death

    Yeah!
    Oh, come on, come on, yes, yes, yes

    It's war within a breath
    It's land or death
    War within a breath
    It's land or death
    War within a breath
    It's land or death
    War within a breath
    It's land or death Writer/s: BRAD J. WILK, THOMAS B. MORELLO, TIMOTHY COMMERFORD, ZACK M. DE LA ROCHA
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Wixen Music Publishing
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 5

  • Ignatius from Saint Nazianz, WiI listened to this song during the last week of 2019 and during the first few days of 2020 some major, potentially world altering events are happening. Everything can change on a New Year's Day took on a new meaning for me and what Rage was making music about 20+ years ago may be more relevant than ever 20+ years later.
  • Jack from Nashville, Tn¡Ya Basta!
  • Cameron from Chicago, IlRock on, Rage! They've got the right idea about this government. It sucks, and we need something else, something better.
  • Sam from Cambridge, Ontario, CanadaThe rebellion in Chiapas began on January 1st, 1994. That is why he says "Everything can change on a new year's day".
  • Sam from Cambridge, Ontario, CanadaThe black flag and a red star is the symbol of the EZLN.
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