Lyrics War Within a Breath - Live Album Version - Rage Against the Machine

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
'Cause for Raza livin' in La La
Like Gaza on to the dawn of Intifada
Reach for the lessons the masked pass on
Seize the metropolis, it's you it's built on

Everything can change on a New Year's Day
Everything changed on New Year's Day
Everything can change on a New Year's Day
Everything changed on a New Year's Da

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

Shots heard underground 'round the rapture
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

Everything can change on a New Year's Day
'Cause everything changed 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
Uh, 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

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
War within a breath
It's land or death