Lyric discussion by GypsyWagon 

Cover art for Take The Power Back lyrics by Rage Against the Machine

my favorite part would be the "The teacher stands in front of the class But the lesson plan he can't recall The student's eyes don't perceive the lies Bouning off every fucking wall His composure is well kept I guess he fears playing the fool The complacent students sit and listen to some of that Bullshit that he learned in school"

first of all history class is a joke, when we got to people like malcolm x and the black panthers, we spent less than 15 minutes on them we spent a month or so on organized crime and proabition, but only a couple weeks on the genocide of indians, and less than a week on civil rights i usually dont like to talk politics with my teachers since i have to spend so much time with them, which is why i keep my composure, but one day my teacher yelled at me for not standing for the pledge (after a whole semester he finaly said something) thats when i lost my shit in front of the whole class not a good day but teachers i swear feel like they have all the power over students

"i wanna see a bumper sticker that says ... "we are the proud parents of a child who has resisted their teachers attempts to break his spirit and bend them to the will of their corporate masters"" -george carlin

Spot on. I remember last year we covered Martin Luther king jr for a whole 15 minutes no JOKE!