Campaign Songs

Flannel ShirtFlannel Shirt Posts: 1,021
edited May 2008 in A Moving Train
I think Obama should run this as his campaign song....

whatta ya think?

TAKE THE POWER BACK
'Crank the music up'
Bring that shit in! Uggh!
Yeah, the movement's in motion with mass militant poetry
Now check this out...uggh!
In the right light, study becomes insight
But the system that dissed us
Teaches us to read and write

So called facts are fraud
They want us to allege and pledge
And bow down to their God
Lost the culture, the culture lost
Spun our minds and through time
Ignorance has taken over
Yo, we gotta take the power back!
Bam! Here's the plan
Motherfuck Uncle Sam
Step back, I know who I am
Raise up your ear, I'll drop the style and clear
It's the beats and the lyrics they fear
The rage is relentless
We need a movement with a quickness
You are the witness of change
And to counteract
We gotta take the power back

Yeah, we gotta take the power back
Come on, come on!
We gotta take the power back

The present curriculum
I put my fist in 'em
Eurocentric every last one of 'em
See right through the red, white and blue disguise
With lecture I puncture the structure of lies
Installed in our minds and attempting
To hold us back
We've got to take it back
'Cause holes in our spirit causin' tears and fears
One-sided stories for years and years and years
I'm inferior? Who's inferior?
Yea, we need to check the interior
Of the system that cares about only one culture
And that is why
We gotta take the power back

Yeah, we gotta take the power back
Come on, come on!
We gotta take the power back

Hey yo check, we're gonna have to break it, break it, break it down
Awww shit!
Uggh!
And like this...uggh!
Come on, yeah! Bring it back the other way!
The teacher stands in front of the class
But the lesson plan he can't recall
The student's eyes don't perceive the lies
Bouning off every fucking wall
His composure is well kept
I guess he fears playing the fool
The complacent students sit and listen to some of that
Bullshit that he learned in school

Europe ain't my rope to swing on
Can't learn a thing from it
Yet we hang from it
Gotta get it, gotta get it together then
Like the motherfuckin' Weathermen
To expose and close the doors on those who try
To strangle and mangle the truth
'Cause the circle of hatred continues unless we react
We gotta take the power back

Yeah, we gotta take the power back
Come on, come on!
We gotta take the power back

No more lies
No more lies
No more lies
No more lies
No more lies
No more lies
No more lies
No more lies
Uggh!
Yeah!
Take it back Joe
Take it back, a-take it back
A-take it back Joe, come on!
Take it back Joe
Take it back, a-take it back
A-take it back Joe, come on!
Uggh!
Yeah!
All that's sacred, comes from youth....dedications, naive and true.
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Comments

  • memememe Posts: 4,695
    I've always thought "The Rising" would be a great campaign song.

    I found it hilarious when Hillary's campaign used "This is our country" on the same night when Mallencamp was playing at an Obama rally :D
    ... and the will to show I will always be better than before.
  • fragileblakefragileblake Posts: 716
    Funny, Obama played the rising before the 75,000 person rally in Portland on Sunday.
  • ledveddermanledvedderman Posts: 7,761
    meme wrote:
    I've always thought "The Rising" would be a great campaign song.

    I found it hilarious when Hillary's campaign used "This is our country" on the same night when Mallencamp was playing at an Obama rally :D

    "The Rising" is Obama's main entrance song. It used to be "City of Blinding Lights" by U2, but when you get the Boss's endorsement...you got to put it to use.
  • memememe Posts: 4,695
    "The Rising" is Obama's main entrance song. It used to be "City of Blinding Lights" by U2, but when you get the Boss's endorsement...you got to put it to use.

    That's awesome :)
    ... and the will to show I will always be better than before.
  • godpt3godpt3 Posts: 1,020
    I'm still waiting for somebody to get the balls to use Bad Religion's I Want to Conquer the World :D
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  • upina2001upina2001 Indiana Posts: 764
    I was sitting here jammin out to an Ausi 06 Comp i made and thought, UNDONE would be an awesome song to use.....

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