Down Rodeo lyrics

[Intro]

Yeah, I'm rollin' down Rodeo with a shotgun

These people ain't seen a brown-skinned man

Since their grandparents bought one

So now I'm rollin' down Rodeo with a shotgun

These people ain't seen a brown-skinned man

Since their grandparents bought one

So now I'm rollin' down Rodeo with a shotgun

[Verse 1]

Bangin' this bolo tight, on this solo flight, can't fight alone

Funk the track, my verbs sly like the Family Stone

Them pen devils set the stage for the war at home

Locked without a wage, you're standing in the drop zone

The clockers born, starin' at an empty plate

Mama's torn hands cover her sunken face

We hungry but them belly full

The structure is set, ya never change it with a ballot pull

In the ruins there's a network for the toxic rock

Schoolyard to precinct, suburb to project block

Bosses rode south for new flesh and a factory floor

The remains left chained to the powder war

[Chorus]

Can't waste a day when the night brings a hearse

So make a move and plead the fifth 'cause ya can't plead the first

Can't waste a day when the night brings a hearse

So now I'm rollin' down Rodeo with a shotgun

These people ain't seen a brown-skinned man

Since their grandparents bought one

Yes, I'm rollin' down Rodeo with a shotgun

These people ain't seen a brown-skinned man

Since their grandparents bought one

So now I'm rollin' down Rodeo with a shotgun

[Verse 2]

Yeah

Bear witness to the sickest shot while suckers get romantic

They ain't gonna send us campin' like they did my man Fred Hampton

Still we lampin', still clockin' dirt for our sweat

A ballot's dead, so a bullet's what I get

A thousand years they had the tools, we should be takin' 'em

Fuck the G-ride, I want the machines that are makin' 'em

Our target straight with a room full of armed pawns

To off the Kings on the west side at dawn

[Chorus]

Can't waste a day when the night brings a hearse

Make a move and plead the fifth 'cause ya can't plead the first

Can't waste a day, when the night brings a hearse

So now I'm rollin' down Rodeo with a shotgun

These people ain't seen a brown-skinned man

Since their grandparents bought one

Yeah, I'm rollin' down Rodeo with a shotgun

These people ain't seen a brown-skinned man

Since their grandparents bought one

Yeah, I'm rollin' down Rodeo with a shotgun

[Outro]

(The rungs torn from the ladder, can't reach the tumor)

(One god, one market, one truth, one consumer)

Just a quiet, peaceful dance

Just a quiet, peaceful dance

Yeaah

Just a quiet, peaceful dance

Just a quiet, peaceful dance

Just a quiet, peaceful dance

For the things we'll never have

Just a quiet, peaceful dance

For the things we don't have

• Artist:Rage Against the Machine
• Album:Evil Empire (1996)