Lyrics War Within a Breath - Rage Against the Machine

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 that it's built on

Everything can change on a new years day
Everything can change on a new years day
Everything can change on a new years day
And everything changed on a new years day, c'mon!

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...

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
World's eye captured at last in a Mexican pasture
Masked screaming land or death
Within a breath, a war from the depth of time
Shot four puppet governors in a line
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

Everything can change on a new years day
Everything can change on a new years day
Everything can change on a new years day
And everything changed on a new years day, c'mon!

Ugh, hear the masked scream
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

It's land or death

Yeaaah!
Ugh!
C'mon!
C'mon!
Yes!
Yes!
Yes!

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