Intro (Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos) (Live at Pink Pop, Hilversum, Holland - May 1996)

Check this out right about now

I wanna introduce a brother

That came all the way out of here from

The Strong Island, New York

He's one of the founders of revolutionary music

In our time period

He was a huge influence on us

We wanna bring him out right now

So check it out

We got a man by the name of Chuck D. from Public Enemy

Yeah

What's up? What's up? (Yeah)

What's up? What's up? (Yeah)

What's up? What's up? (Yeah)

What's up? What's up? (Yeah)

What's up? What's up?

I'm with Rage on the stage and I back Zack

Tim on the bass, Tom in your face

We got Brad on the drums, can you get some?

Drummer and the bass, can you get some?

Pump, pump on my lap at all times

Return of the boom-bap (yeah)

This is the rage in your ear

Hear ye, hear ye, the crowd so near me

But you still don't hear me

I got a letter from the government the other day

I opened and read it, it said they were suckers

They wanted me for the army or whatever

Picture me givin' a damn, I said never

Here is a land that never gave a damn

About a brother like me and myself because they never did

I wasn't with it, but just that very minute it

Occurred to me, the suckers had authority

Cold sweatin' as I dwell in my cell

How long has it been? They got me sittin' in the state pen

I gotta get out, but that thought was thought before

I contemplated a plan on the cell floor

I'm not a fugitive on the run

But a brother like me begun to be another one

Public Enemy servin' time, they drew the line y'all

To criticize me for some crime

Nevertheless, they could not understand that I'm a black man

And I could never be a veteran

On the strength, the situation's unreal

I got a raw deal, Zack

So I'm lookin' for the steel

Peace y'all (come on, y'all, give it up for Chuck D)

Yeah

Yeah

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