Rage Against the Machine - War Within a Breath
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 the 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
Like Gaza on to the dawn of Intifada
Reach for the lessons the masked pass on
And seize the metropolis, it's you it's built on
★ Pre-Chorus ★
Everything can change on a new year's day
Everything can change on a nеw year's day
Everything can change on a nеw year's day
And everything changed on a new year's day
Come on
★ Chorus ★
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
★ Verse 2 ★
Their existence is a crime
Their seat, their robe, their tie
Their land deeds, their hired guns
They're the crime
Shots heard underground 'round the rapture
The world's eye captured at last in a Mexican pasture
The masked screaming land or death
Within a breath, a war from the depth of time
Who shot four puppet governors in a line
Who shook all the world bankers who think they can rhyme
Shot the landlords who knew it was mine
Yes, it's a war from the depth of time
★ Pre-Chorus ★
Everything can change on a new year's day
Everything can change on a new year's day
Everything can change on a new year's day
Everything can change on a new year's day
Come on
Ugh, hear the masked scream
★ Chorus ★
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
★ Post-Chorus ★
It's land or death
Yeah, uh
Come on
Come on
Yes, yes
Yes
★ Chorus ★
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
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Biography
Accompanying a musical fusion of punk, hip-hop and metal, the lyricism of frontman Zack de la Rocha provides a fiery critique of corporate America, government oppression, and cultural imperialism. Both de la Rocha and guitarist Tom Morello were born into activist families, influential to shaping the band’s political views and activism. De la Rocha’s father devoted his artistic work to Chicano causes, and Morello was raised by a civil rights activist mother and a Kenyan rebel-turned-diplomat father.
Rage Against the Machine view their music as a vehicle for social activism, and de la Rocha has explained this by saying:
I’m interested in spreading those ideas through art, because music has the power to cross borders, to break military sieges and to establish real dialogue.
Over their career, Rage Against the Machine have championed numerous causes, including death-row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal’s fight for a new trial, the Zapatista freedom fighters in Mexico, and the treatment of sweatshop workers. The band’s leftist and revolutionary political views are further represented in almost all of their songs, and this politically fuelled commentary is key to their identity. Notable examples of these beliefs are discussed in “Killing in the Name” (addressing racism and police corruption), “Wake Up” (addressing racism in the American government), and “Freedom” (supporting imprisoned American-Indian activist Leonard Peltier).
Rage Against the Machine split up in 2000, with three of the band members joining Soundgarden’s Chris Cornell to form rock supergroup Audioslave. They reunited in 2007, and since then have sporadically performed major live events, but are yet to record any new material. In May 2016, it was revealed that Tom Morello, Brad Wilk and Tim Commerford had united with Chuck D of Public Enemy and B-Real of Cypress Hill to form the supergroup, Prophets of Rage.