Zack de la Rocha ft. Jon Theodore - One Day As A Lion

One Day as a Lion is a duo consisting of vocalist/keyboardist Zack de la Rocha(from Rage Against The Machine)and drummer Jon Theodore (from The Mars Volta).

Lyrics:

Blood soaked earth that you call home
close your eyes but don't sleep
we comin' like peoples army
for the people who can't eat
who work with no sleep
for the child
with no shoes on their feet
a generation who flash heat
who role up on the banks
for their cash see
you're the criminal?
you got the nerve to ask me
tear mics till my voice get raspy
faced flame for five centuries
and if LA were Baghdad we'd be Iraqi
with our straps in the backseat
next to a general tied up
with shit in his khakis
best leave my mic alone I'm full grown
and I'm off to the green zone

after dark my city's a fuse
after dark my city's a fuse
one day I say today we live as a lion

blood soaked earth that you call home

I heard this cat got life in the pen
crossing sand in the back of a truck bed
twelve deep heard sirens and lights red
was smacked on his dome with the club of
a white fed
no food no water no rights read
he came north to keep his seeds
and his wife fed
in the middle of the darkest night bled
stepped to the law and said
you a minuteman wait a minute man
talk like that might limit your life span

after dark my city's a fuse
one day i say today we live as a lion
and when our cubs grow
we'll show you what war is good for

Category:

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• Iraq

[WOJRA]

write something about Putin braveheart

[jojodesal]

@WOJRA 100% correct. i love zach's music, but he's a punk. its easy to criticize countries like the USA. Lets hear a song about Putin or Islamic fascists and all the atrocities they commit.

[PeopleOfAr]

@jojodesal no actually it's not easy considering he is criticizing his own government. It’s always easier to criticize foreign governments! Zach is a legend and his music is art I don't know what you people are worked up about. He only tells the truth! And yes it's easy to criticize Zach too but let us see you people make better music :S

[PeopleOfAr]

@WOJRA you write something keyboard critic!

[yiyoisreal]

"we´re here for your fucking petroleum so back up right now" oh i´m sorry i meant to say freedom

[fruitsofnews]

did bush really say that?

[TheBalkanBlitz]

Zack and Immortal Technique, that's combination I would like to hear. Great song...

[eruweraranj0r]

@jojodesal He would have more than enough ammo to criticize Putin, Communist China, actually every oppressive regime. I think your president is a bigger fascist than all the "Islamic fascists" put together. A bad man is a bad man, but when he's got the most sophisticated weaponry behind his pawns, it's safe to say that some "Islamic fascists", with their army of outdated weapon weilding goons don't really stand a chance.

[monra336]

the key to Revolution is organized disorder

[ImPoisonBeCareful]

dont wanna be mean but america is one of the most racist country in the world beside turkey...

[zurielrtv]

FUCK YOU CHAVEZ BURN IN HELL

[743d]

@PeopleOfAr agreed, why the hell do people always want others to say things for them?

[Ruest420]

ANY WAR IN THE PAST 300 years HAS BEEN FINANCED BY THE LARGEST BANKS***

You must understand this, its not putin, US Government, Islam Fascist single handley deciding to go to war. In order to go to war you must be financed, take loans... at a ridiculous interest rate, plus think about who make the weapons, who profits off the materials needed for war?

So i think its fair to say theres a lot of profit at war and for who.. the already rich

Wars no less scripted that a tv soap opera. scary

[kcarter1018]

THE LAND CALLED AMERICA. NATIVE AMERICAN'S ARE OR WERE MISTAKEN OF INDIANS AND STILL HOLD A STRONG TITLE OF "INDIANS" THAT MOST PEOPLE ARE AWARE OF. NATIVE AMERICAS IN THE REGIONS OF USA WERE BASICALLY ROBBED OF THEIR HOMES, PROBABLY KILLED IN DOING FORCED TO MOVE ALL OVER THE CONTINENT'S OF N.&S. AMERICA. SO FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE PREJUDICE TOWARDS THE AMERICAN RACE , YOUR FAMILY MEMBERS CAME HERE TOO. IF YOU LIVE HERE YOU GIVE AMERICA MORE POWER... POINT BLANK THEY WILL NEVER STOP....

[kcarter1018]

Remeber people you are calling AMERICA OUT, which is fin by me as long as you do it right...

REMEBER THAT AMERICA'S ETHNICITY IS BASED ON A METAPHOR CALLED "THE MELTING POT" ONE PLACE THAT HAS AN UNLIMITED CAPACITY FOR CULTURES, RACE, AND LANGUAGE. NOW'A'DAYS PEOPLE OF MANY DIFFERENT ETHNICITY ARE INVOLVED IN ALMOST EVERY AMERICAN OCCUPATION/PUBLIC ORGANIZATION. CAUCASIAN, HISPANIC-AMERICAN, AFRICAN-AMERICAN, ARABIC-AMERICAN ECT. ITS A COUNTRY OF IMMAGRATION BRITISH PEOPLE WERE NOT NATIVES OF