Memory Of The Dead Lyrics - Rage Against The Machine

Wealthy vampires 

With the cold hands of executioners 

Execute 

Executive decisions 

Determined to destroy 

What 1 million women, children, and men 

1910 

Died, drowning in the rage of battle. 

Mothers, half naked 

Infants clutching thier necks 

Running frantically 

Tripping over the bodies of their sons 

Teeth gnashing 

Swinging machete 

Spitting blood and mud, and screaming: 

Land, and liberty! 

Were erased. 

Buried and burned 

Along with the memory of the dead 

Along with the ejido. 

With the smooth stroke of a pen 

And with the ghost of nixon present in their eyes 

They smiled. 

And pronounced the omnipitence 

Of the free market 

The profits of profit 

Extending the scurge of columbus and pizarro 

The freedom to buy things you can never afford 

The freedom for indians to buy corn that once flourished overgrown in their backyards 

The freedom to die of curable disease 

The freedom to watch their children's stomachs swell and burst 

The freedom to starve and die 

Without land 

Or liberty 

But ramona, with eyes of obsidian 

Peering through her blood and sweat drenched mask 

Darding, unseen 

Changing direction with the swiftness of a bird 

Through the shanty's of the canyon 

With every coyote, every insect, every phylum of life 

Urging her, propelling her forward. 

The leaves and branches of the forest 

Part for miles, clearing her path 

The voices and screams of the dead beneathe her feet 

Echo in the deepest chasm of her soul 

Hurling her, toward the city 

History surging through her veins 

Pulsing through her fingers 

Hurling her, towards the city 

She caresses her trigger 

And the words of magome fulfil her being 

And with each shot she fires, she affirms her movement 

Saying: 

Enough! enough! 

No! 

I will see my own blood flow 

Before you take my land...or my liberty 

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