But its inclusion here has nothing to do with Keanu Reeves, and everything to with the unstoppable groove that sounds like a careering train and De La Rocha’s fastest, deftest ever vocal performance. Wake Up had been one of the less talked about songs from Rage’s debut album before it was used in the end credits of The Matrix. Possibly Tom Morello’s finest five minutes. Their questions hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today - my own government." Martin Luther King, Jr.While there are many reasons Bullet In The Head is held up legitimately as one of the greatest songs of its era, be it that skipping bass line that opens it or the way De La Rocha nearly rips his voice to pieces at the climax, the main one has to be that bewildering, spidery riff that takes us home half way through. But they ask - and rightly so - what about Vietnam? They ask if our own nation wasn't using massive doses of violence to solve its problems, to bring about the changes it wanted. I have tried to offer them my deepest compassion while maintaining my conviction that social change comes most meaningfully through nonviolent action. "As I have walked among the desperate, rejected, and angry young men, I have told them that Molotov cocktails and rifles would not solve their problems. Like they did with King "When he spoke out on Vietnam" in his speech "Beyond Vietnam - A Time to Break Silence" a year before his death. The second, to remove them when they become to powerful. The quotes towards the end of the song come straight from the transcripts of official FBI COINTELPRO documents with the first one talking specifically about King. "I think I heard a shot" could be interpreted a couple of ways but when considering the closing line of the song I believe this is Zack having hope that the gun will soon be aimed at the heads of those in the seats of power "cause what you reap is what you sow". Zack is releasing his frustration with this and pleading with his audience to "Wake Up" and see the robber barons for what they are. Martin Luther King and Malcolm X being the obvious examples referred to in the song and how despite the "fury that they had in '66" following X's assassination nothing has been done to change the status quo. The song is about movements for change and how the elite suppress them by brainwashing the masses "Networks at work, keepin' people calm" and removing key individuals "He turned the power to the have-nots, And then came the shot". The future of this world is all based on lies and greed. Most ppl are so blind thinking Jesus is coming since there is already some world order via global warming til they've lost touch with reality. Now we're under control while the psychotic ideas of the super rich unfold before our eyes. It was all set up and planned so we'd fear the boogeyman. We don't have to know everything to see our best interest isn't in mind. I just hope that when the time comes some of us will fight. What's so awesome is the way he quietly repeats I think I heard a shot over and over until you can feel the shot and the anger they must have had then.doing just what the government does to us to control our minds. Our constitution has been trampled on so much til it has no meaning. This song speaks the truth about the leaders who got killed before when they tried to give power to the ppl and not the government.
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