Rebel, rebel and yell  'Cause our people still dwell in hell  Locked in a cell  Yes, the structure's a cell  Mad is the story I tell  How long can we wait?  Come on, seein' what's at stake  Action for reaction  If your mind's in a somewhat complacent state  Get a check up  This is a stick up  Our freedom or your life  Lord, I wish I could be peacful  But there can be no sequel    Now freedom must be fundamental  In Johannesburg or South Central  On the mic, 'cause someone should tell 'em  To kick in the township rebellion    Yeah, what about that sucker?    Yeah, so you thought you could get with the hardlines  That fill your mind  Thoughts, battles fought  And lessons taught  Yes I'll display the fitness  And flip like a gymnast  Raise my fist and resist  Asleep, though we stand in the midst  Of the war  Gotta get mine  Gotta get more  Keepin' the mic warm against the norm  'Cause what does it offer me?  I think often it's nothin' but a coffin    Gotta get wreck  'Till our necks never swing on a rope  From here to the cape of no hope    Now freedom must be fundamental  In Johannesburg or South Central  On the mic, 'cause someone should tell 'em  To kick in the township rebellion    Why stand on a silent platform?  Fight the war, fuck the norm (4 times)    (Guitar solo)    Why stand on a silent platform?  Fight the war, fuck the norm (4 times)    What's it gonna take?  Euuurrrggghhhhh!    Shackle their minds when they're bent on the cross  When ignorance reigns, life is lost  Shackle their minds when they're left on the cross  When ignorance reigns, life is lost  Shackled our minds when we're bent on the cross  When ignorance reigns, life is lost  Shackled our minds when we're left on the cross  When ignorance reigns, life is lost, lost, lost!    Shackle your minds and you're left on the cross!  When ignorance reigns, life is lost!  Just shackle your minds when you're bent on the cross!  When ignorance reigns, life is lost, lost!    Why stand on a silent platform?  Fight the war, fuck the norm (4 times)