[ti:The 4th Branch] [ar:Immortal Technique] [al:Revolutionary, Vol. 2] [00:00.02]Immortal Technique - The 4th Branch [00:01.02] [00:04.17]The new age is upon us [00:05.45]And yet the past refuses to rest in its shallow grave [00:09.77]For those who hide behind the false image of the son of man [00:14.41]shall stand before God!!! [00:19.51]It has begun [00:22.92]The beginning of the end [00:26.57]Yeah.. [00:29.46]Yeah... yeah, yeah [00:37.10] [00:38.00]The voice of racism preaching the gospel is devilish [00:41.11]A fake church called the prophet Muhammad a terrorist [00:44.20]Forgetting God is not a religion, but a spiritual bond [00:47.34]And Jesus is the most quoted prophet in the Qu'ran [00:50.60]They bombed innocent people, tryin' to murder Saddam [00:53.60]When you gave him those chemical weapons to go to war with Iran [00:56.69]This is the information that they hold back from Peter Jennings [01:00.21]Cause Condoleeza Rice is just a new age Sally Hemmings [01:03.47]I break it down with critical language and spiritual anguish [01:06.44]The Judas I hang with, the guilt of betraying Christ [01:09.93]You murdered and stole his religion, and painting him white [01:12.55]Translated in psychologically tainted philosophy [01:16.07]Conservative political right wing, ideology [01:18.99]Glued together sloppily, the blasphemy of a nation [01:22.17]Got my back to the wall, cause I'm facin' assassination [01:25.68]Guantanamo Bay, federal incarceration [01:28.76]How could this be, the land of the free, home of the brave? [01:31.88]Indigenous holocaust, and the home of the slaves [01:34.80]Corporate America, dancin' offbeat to the rhythm [01:37.83]You really think this country, never sponsored terrorism? [01:41.37]Human rights violations, we continue the saga [01:44.52]El Savador and the contras in Nicaragua [01:47.68]And on top of that, you still wanna take me to prison [01:50.78]Just cause I won't trade humanity for patriotism [01:54.23] [01:54.69]It's like MK-ULTRA, controlling your brain [01:57.20]Suggestive thinking, causing your perspective to change [02:00.23]They wanna rearrange the whole point of view of the ghetto [02:03.35]The fourth branch of the government, want us to settle [02:06.68]A bandana full of glittering, generality [02:10.06]Fighting for freedom and fighting terror, but what's reality? [02:12.99]Read about the history of the place that we live in [02:16.12]And stop letting corporate news tell lies to your children [02:19.33] [02:19.94]Flow like the blood of Abraham through the Jews and the Arabs [02:22.52]Broken apart like a woman's heart, abused in a marriage [02:25.70]The brink of holy war, bottled up, like a miscarriage [02:28.96]Embedded correspondents don't tell the source of the tension [02:32.08]And they refuse to even mention, European intervention [02:35.36]Or the massacres in Jenin, the innocent screams [02:38.43]U.S. manufactured missles, and M-16's [02:41.48]Weapon contracts and corrupted American dreams [02:44.52]Media censorship, blocking out the video screens [02:47.74]A continent of oil kingdoms, bought for a bargain [02:51.35]Democracy is just a word, when the people are starvin' [02:54.36]The average citizen, made to be, blind to the reason [02:57.48]A desert full of genocide, where the bodies are freezin' [03:00.72]And the world doesn't believe that you fightin' for freedom [03:03.67]Cause you fucked the Middle East, and gave birth to a demon [03:07.01]It's open season with the CIA, bugging my crib [03:10.12]Trapped in a ghetto region like a Palestinian kid [03:13.22]Where nobody gives a fuck whether you die or you live [03:16.31]I'm tryin' to give the truth, and I know the price is my life [03:19.42]But when I'm gone they'll sing a song about Immortal Technique [03:22.76]Who beheaded the President, and the princes and sheiks [03:25.91]You don't give a fuck about us, I can see through your facade [03:29.51]Like a fallen angel standing in the presence of God [03:32.20]Bitch niggaz scared of the truth, when it looks at you hard [03:35.41] [03:36.01]It's like MK-ULTRA, controlling your brain [03:38.61]Suggestive thinking, causing your perspective to change [03:41.73]They wanna rearrange the whole point of view in the ghetto [03:44.98]The fourth branch of the government, want us to settle [03:48.28]A bandana full of glittering, generality [03:51.50]Fighting for freedom and fighting terror, but what's reality? [03:54.61]Martial law is coming soon to the hood, to kill you [03:57.76]While you hanging your flag out your project window [04:01.19] [04:01.99]Yeah.. [04:03.03]The fourth branch of the government AKA the media [04:07.71]Seems to now have a retirement plan for ex-military officials [04:11.26]As if their opinion was at all unbiased [04:14.63]A machine shouldn't speak for men [04:17.56]So shut the fuck up you mindless drone! [04:20.50]And you know it's serious [04:22.52]When these same media outfits are spending millions of dollars on a PR campaign [04:27.74]To try to convince you they're fair and balanced [04:31.63]When they're some of the most ignorant, and racist people [04:34.62]Giving that type of mentality a safe haven [04:37.41]We act like we share in the spoils of war that they do [04:41.36]We die in wars, we don't get the contracts to make money off 'em afterwards! [04:46.48]We don't get weapons contracts, nigga! [04:49.28]We don't get cheap labor for our companies, nigga! [04:52.34]We are cheap labor, nigga! [04:54.56]Turn off the news and read, nigga! [04:57.66]Read... read... read... [05:02.60] [05:03.12]End [05:03.60] [05:04.02]Immortal Technique - The 4th Branch [05:07.02]