Civil War Lyrics - Brother Ali

[Immortal Technique]The ghetto is like a prison, with invisible bars 

No matter where you ride, it always follows you where you are 

And it's hard out there, for a pimp to get outta 

But it's harder for the hooker that he beat the shit outta 

I got niggas underground in the Confederate States 

Ironically runnin' from slavery that prison creates 

So I never hate on the south, I respect they vision 

I just hate on niggas that promote Samboism 

And white execs that love to see us in that position 

They reflect the stereotypes of America's vision 

They want us dancing, cooning and hollering 

Only respect us for playing sports and modeling 

More than racism, it's stay in your place-ism 

More people are trapped in practical blackface-ism 

So fuck a Civil War between the North and the South 

It's between field niggas and slaves that are stuck in the house 

[Chorus: Chuck D]Civil war for the soul of a nation 

This is a struggle to save civilization 

Demonstrations overthrowing the occupation 

The annihilation of mental colonization 

Civil war for the soul of a nation 

We fight for the future of our civilization 

Destroy the corrupt government organizations 

Trying to survive cultural assassination 

[Killer Mike]Crip niggas, Blood nigga, ese's, Asians 

Why the fuck we warring with each other's population? 

The devil wanna dead all our population 

People in Folk nation, why the separation? 

Why we got Jamaicans hatin' on Haitians 

When the British and French raped both nations? 

Mexicans and Blacks kill each other, straight hating 

While the government profits from prison population 

If you on the bottom, be you Anglo or Asian 

You gotta recognize the realness of what I'm sayin' 

You gotta recognize another G ain't the enemy 

When the police ride to kill us frequently 

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We gotta make the youth see, where the truth be 

If you a G, then grow and develop GD 

50 years of gangs and our people still poor 

If we really run the streets, we should really end war 

[Chorus: Chuck D]Civil war for the soul of a nation 

This is a struggle to save civilization 

Demonstrations overthrowing the occupation 

The annihilation of mental colonization 

Civil war for the soul of a nation 

We fight for the future of our civilization 

Destroy the corrupt government organizations 

Trying to survive cultural assassination 

[Brother Ali]Listen, our hearts were torn apart just like y'all was 

Watching towers full of souls fall to sawdust 

Everytime we called your office you ignored us 

Now you holding hearings on us all inside a Congress 

Microscopes on us, ask if we're Jihadists 

My answer was in line with all of the Founding Fathers 

I think Patrick said it best; Give me liberty or death 

I shall never accept anything less 

You claim innocence, you play victimless 

But you gave the kiss of death in the name of self defense 

Slavery and theft have brought the nations to the end 

Of pacifying your citizenry with excess 

We believe in freedom, justice, security 

But they're only pure when they're applied universally 

So certainly if I rage against the machine 

My aim was only to clean the germs out of the circuitry 

Heard you need putting fear inside your heart 

Make you burn Qu'rans and tell me not to build a mosque 

Me, my wife and babies we ain't never made jihad 

We just want to touch our heads to the floor and talk to God 

Ask him to remove every blemish from my heart 

The greatest threat of harm doesn't come from any bomb 

The moment you refuse the human rights of just a few 

What happens when that few includes you? 

Civil war 

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