4th Branch lyrics

Artist  : Immortal Technique 
Song : 4th Branch
 
[Talking]

The new age is upon us

And yet the past refuses to rest in its shallow
grave

For those who hide behind the false image of the
son of man

shall stand before God!!! It has begun

The beginning of the end

Yeah..

Yeah... yeah, yeah



[Verse 1]

The voice of racism preaching the gospel is
devilish

A fake church called the prophet Muhammad a
terrorist

Forgetting God is not a religion, but a spiritual
bond

And Jesus is the most quoted prophet in the
Qu'ran

They bombed innocent people, tryin' to murder
Saddam

When you gave him those chemical weapons to go to
war with Iran

This is the information that they hold back from
Peter Jennings

Cause Condoleeza Rice is just a new age Sally
Hemmings

I break it down with critical language and
spiritual anguish

The Judas I hang with, the guilt of betraying
Christ

You murdered and stole his religion, and painting
him white

Translated in psychologically tainted
philosophy

Conservative political right wing, ideology

Glued together sloppily, the blasphemy of a
nation

Got my back to the wall, cause I'm facin'
assassination

Guantanamo Bay, federal incarceration

How could this be, the land of the free, home of
the brave?

Indigenous holocaust, and the home of the
slaves

Corporate America, dancin' offbeat to the
rhythm

You really think this country, never sponsored
terrorism?

Human rights violations, we continue the saga

El Savador and the contras in Nicaragua

And on top of that, you still wanna take me to
prison

Just cause I won't trade humanity for
patriotism



[Hook]

It's like MK-ULTRA, controlling your brain

Suggestive thinking, causing your perspective to
change

They wanna rearrange the whole point of view of
the ghetto

The fourth branch of the government, want us to
settle

A bandana full of glittering, generality

Fighting for freedom and fighting terror, but
what's reality?

Read about the history of the place that we live
in

And stop letting corporate news tell lies to your
children



[Verse 2]

Flow like the blood of Abraham through the Jews
and the Arabs

Broken apart like a woman's heart, abused in a
marriage

The brink of holy war, bottled up, like a
miscarriage

Embedded correspondents don't tell the source of
the tension

And they refuse to even mention, European
intervention

Or the massacres in Jenin, the innocent
screams

U.S. manufactured missles, and M-16's

Weapon contracts and corrupted American
dreams

Media censorship, blocking out the video
screens

A continent of oil kingdoms, bought for a
bargain

Democracy is just a word, when the people are
starvin'

The average citizen, made to be, blind to the
reason

A desert full of genocide, where the bodies are
freezin'

And the world doesn't believe that you fightin'
for freedom

Cause you fucked the Middle East, and gave birth
to a demon

It's open season with the CIA, bugging my
crib

Trapped in a ghetto region like a Palestinian
kid

Where nobody gives a fuck whether you die or you
live

I'm tryin' to give the truth, and I know the
price is my life

But when I'm gone they'll sing a song about
Immortal Technique

Who beheaded the President, and the princes and
sheiks

You don't give a fuck about us, I can see through
your facade

Like a fallen angel standing in the presence of
God

Bitch niggaz scared of the truth, when it looks
at you hard



[Hook]

It's like MK-ULTRA, controlling your brain

Suggestive thinking, causing your perspective to
change

They wanna rearrange the whole point of view in
the ghetto

The fourth branch of the government, want us to
settle

A bandana full of glittering, generality

Fighting for freedom and fighting terror, but
what's reality?

Martial law is coming soon to the hood, to kill
you

While you hanging your flag out your project
window



[Talking]

Yeah..

The fourth branch of the government AKA the
media

Seems to now have a retirement plan for
ex-military officials

As if their opinion was at all unbiased

A machine shouldn't speak for men

So shut the fuck up you mindless drone!

And you know it's serious

When these same media outfits are spending
millions of dollars on a PR campaign

To try to convince you they're fair and
balanced

When they're some of the most ignorant, and
racist people

Giving that type of mentality a safe haven

We act like we share in the spoils of war that
they do

We die in wars, we don't get the contracts to
make money off 'em afterwards!

We don't get weapons contracts, nigga!

We don't get cheap labor for our companies,
nigga!

We are cheap labor, nigga!

Turn off the news and read, nigga!

Read... read... read...