[ti:Maria(Album Version)] [ar:Rage Against The Machine] [al:The Battle Of Los Angeles] [by:] [offset:0] [00:01.02]Maria(Album Version)---Rage Against The Machine [00:05.35]Tha sun ablaze as Maria's foot [00:07.41]Touches tha surface of sand [00:08.91]On northern land [00:09.86]As human contraband [00:11.17]Some rico from Jalisco [00:12.42]Passed her name to tha boss [00:13.81]She stuffed ten to a truckbed [00:15.06]She clutches her cross [00:16.49]Here comes tha exhaust [00:17.80]And it rips through her lungs [00:19.30]She's off fast to tha pasture [00:20.74]Like cattle she'll cross [00:21.86]Degree 106 [00:22.23] [00:23.23]Sweat and vomit are thrown [00:24.48]And she prays and suffocates [00:25.79]Upon tha memories of home [00:27.35]Of Yanqui guns for blood debts on tha loans [00:30.16]Of smoldering fields rape rubble and bones [00:33.29]Of graves hidden trapped up in visions of war [00:35.99]Of nothing no one nobody no more [00:39.13]These are her mountains and skies and she radiates [00:43.88]And through history's rivers of blood she regenerates [00:49.09]And like tha sun disappears only to reappear [00:55.31]She's eternally here [00:58.13]Her time is near [00:59.51]Never conquered but here [01:05.15]To tear away at tha mask [01:13.65]And now she got a quota [01:15.21]Tha needle and thread crucifixion [01:17.45]Sold and shipped across tha new line of Mason Dixon [01:20.32]Rippin' through denim [01:21.51]Tha point an inch from her vein [01:22.76]Tha foreman approach [01:23.26]His steps now pound in her brain [01:25.63]His presence it terrifies [01:26.75]And eclipses her days [01:27.94]No minutes to rest [01:29.75]No moment to pray [01:30.99]And with a whisper [01:31.74]He whips her [01:32.62]Her soul chained to his will [01:33.86]"My job is to kill if you forget to take your pill" [01:36.80]Her arms jerks [01:37.48]Tha sisters gather round her and scream [01:39.23]As if in a dream [01:40.36]Eyes on tha crimson stream [01:41.41] [01:42.23]Numb as her wrists spit shots of blood to tha floor [01:44.74]Of nothing no one nobody no more [01:48.19]These are her mountains and skies and she radiates [01:50.26] [01:53.03]And through history's rivers of blood she regenerates [01:58.35]And like tha sun disappears only to reappear [02:02.78]Maria she's eternally here [02:07.39]Her time is near [02:08.83]Never conquered but here [02:11.02] [02:14.55]\To tear away at the mask [02:20.49]Away at the mask [02:25.80]To tear away at the mask [02:38.90]No minute to rest [02:41.58]No moment to pray [02:44.58]No minutes to rest [02:47.14]No moments to pray [02:47.76] [02:50.11]No minutes to rest [02:52.85]It eclipses her days [02:54.29]Just a moment to pray [03:16.76]To tear away at the mask [03:21.86]Away at the mask [03:28.54]Away at the mask [03:33.50]To tear away at the mask