Abdul-Hannan Minhas

Immortal Technique- The Martyr/ (Idlib, Syria Bombing November 6 footage.) Lyrics:
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[Intro]
I'm content in dying for my beliefs



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So cut off my head and make me a martyr
The people will always remember it



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No, they will forget



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A man who walks with God, can walk anywhere
Hence I fear nothing



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[Verse 1]
The point of guerilla war is not to succeed
It's always been just to make the enemy bleed



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Depriving the soldiers of the peace of mind that they need
Bullets are hard to telegraph, when they bob and they weave



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The only way a guerilla war can ever be over
Is when the occupation can't afford more soldiers



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Until they have to draft the last of you into the service
And you refuse because you don't see the purpose


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The only way to counter the insurgents that are well-equipped
Is to paint the people fighting for freedom as "terrorists"



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Then find a faction looking for foreign investment
Install them in power & murder any objections


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You can't stop a revolution from breathing so to beat em'
They offer people the illusion of freedom


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But when your done dreaming and wake up tortured for treason
Then you can see them hiding behind the god they believe in


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[Hook]
Deep in the trenches, in the heart of a war
That's the place a martyr is born (motherfucker, it's on!)


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During the night before the start of the dawn
That's the place a martyr is born (motherfucker, it's on!)


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When gunshots raining in the heart of a storm
That's the place a martyr is born (motherfucker, it's on!)

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Guerilla war when the army is gone
That's the place a martyr is born (motherfucker, it's on!)


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[Verse 2]
The purpose of life is a life with a purpose
So I'd rather die for a cause than live a life that is worthless


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I don't need the circus or the day of national observance
I need you to think for you and stop being a servant


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Pawns only move a square in the game that they're used in
And realize it too late like the shooting of Huey Newton


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Or Patrice Lumumba and Salvador Allende
Slaughtered by the power-hungry branches of their own gente



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Ghandi wasn't killed by Pakistani nationals
He was assassinated by a Hindu radical


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And Che Guevara, rebel to a U.S. continent
Was sold to the C.I.A. by Bolivian communists


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Wasn't Yitzhak Rabin murdered by a Zionist
And Anwar Sadat a victim of the same violence?


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Malcolm X was seen as a threat to the F.B.I
But to blast 'em they used Muslims from the N.O.I


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Even the 35th President of the Republic
Was murdered by factions of his own government


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So now that it's proven, that a soldier of revolution
Or head of an empire, disguised in a constitution


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Can not escape the retribution or manipulation
Of the self-appointed rulers of the planet's corporations


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So I'mma need every generation to put your hands up
Cause you can only get 'em off your back when you stand up!



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[Hook]
Deep in the trenches, in the heart of a war
That's the place a martyr is born (motherfucker, it's on!)

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During the night before the start of the dawn
That's the place a martyr is born (motherfucker, it's on!)

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When gunshots raining in the heart of a storm
That's the place a martyr is born (motherfucker, it's on!)

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Guerilla war when the army is gone
That's the place a martyr is born (motherfucker, it's on!)


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[Outro]
I was a man blessed by God to survive some of the worst circumstances
I had many things; a beautiful woman I loved, a home, money



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And I gave it all up to bleed and to die free
Sometimes I look back on that life and I wonder what it would've been like


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And in moments of weakness I think about trading it
Then I snap the fuck out of it and I get back to my reality



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And I realize that I'm in the heart of a war
And that's the place a martyr is born



The purpose of life is a life with a purpose
So I'd rather die for a cause than live a life that is worthless.