Propaganda Lyrics by Dead Prez

Propaganda Lyrics

    Intro: (news snippets)
    "let me now turn, to our program for the future..."
    "the economy right now, is extremely supportive of the president and his
    Policies"
    "fbi scientists have found chemical traces, consistent with a bomb or a
    Missle, on a piece of wreckage..."
    "police using clubs and tear gas against demonstrators..."
    "they called me a mother -(bleeped out)-ing so-and-so...and a white
    Facist...like they said, 'you're getting some of your own medicine'..."

    Singing:
    Telling lies, to our children
    Telling lies, to our children
    Telling lies, to our babies
    Only truth, can take us...

    Verse 1:
    You can't fool all the people all of the time
    But if you fool the right ones, then the rest will fall behind
    Tell me who's got control of your mind? your world view?
    Is it the news or the movie you're taking your girl to? (uh)
    Know what i'm sayin cause uncle sam got a plan
    If you examine what they tellin us then you will understand
    What they plantin in the seeds of the next generation
    Feeding our children miseducation
    No one knows if there's ufo's or any life on mars
    Or what they do when they up in the stars
    Because i don't believe a word of what the president said
    He filling our head with lies got us hypnotised
    When he be speaking in cold words about crime and poverty
    Drugs, welfare, prisons, guns and robbery
    It really means us, there's no excuse for the slander
    But what's good for the goose, is still good for the gander
    See...

    Chorus:
    I don't believe bob marley died from cancer
    31 years ago i woulda been a panther
    They killed huey cause they knew he had the answer
    The views that you see in the news is propaganda

    Singing:
    Telling lies, to our children
    Telling lies, to our children
    Telling lies, to our babies
    Only truth, can take us...

    Verse 2:
    I don't want no computer chip in my arm
    I don't wanna die by a nuclear bomb
    I say we all rush the pentagon, pull out guns
    And grab the intercom, my first word's will be i believe
    Man made god, outta ignorance and fear
    If god made man, then why the hell would he put us here?
    I thought he's supposed to be the all loving
    The same god who let hitler put the jews in the oven
    We don't fall for the regular shit, they try to feed us
    All this half-ass leadership, flippin position
    They turn politcian and shut the hell up and follow tradition
    For your tv screen, is telling lies to your vision
    Every channel got some brainwashed cop shit to watch
    Running up in niggas cribs claiming that they heard shots
    It's a plot, but busta can you tell me who's greedier?
    Big corporations, the pigs or the media?
    Sign of the times, terrorism on the rise
    Commercial airplanes, falling out the sky like flies
    Make me wonder what secrets went down with bob brown (?)
    Who burnt churches to the ground with no evidence found?
    It's not coincidence, it's been too many studied incidents
    It coulda been the klan who put that bomb at the olympics
    But it probably was the fbi, deep at the call
    Cuz if they make us all panic then they can start martial law

    Chorus:
    I don't believe bob marley died from cancer
    31 years ago i woulda been a panther
    They killed huey cause they knew he had the answer
    The views that you see in the news is propaganda

    I don't believe bob marley died from cancer
    31 years ago i woulda been a panther
    They killed huey cause they knew he had the answer
    The views that you see in the news is muthafuckin propaganda

    Singing:
    Police is telling lies fooling millions
    What are they teaching our kids in these school buildings?
    Televised, enterprised in all the killing
    Controlling our lives, this ain't living
    No this ain't living

    Chant:
    Fbi, cia
    Atf, kkk
    Irs, tnt
    Cbs, nbc

    Fbi, cia
    Atf, kkk
    Irs, tnt
    Cbs, nbc

    Singing:
    Telling lies, to our children
    Telling lies, to our children
    Telling lies, to our babies
    Only truth, can take us...

    News snippet:
    "uh, we view each other uh, with uh, a great love and a great understanding
    And that we
    Try to expand this to the general, uh, black population and also people,
    Oppressed people all over the world, and, i think that uh, we differ from
    Uhmm... uh, some other groups simply because we understand the system better
    Than uh, most uh, groups understand the system, and uh, with this
    Realisation, uh, we attempt to form a strong political base based in the
    Community with the only strength that we have and that's the strength of uh,
    A potentially destructive force if we don't get freedom."

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