Rage Against the Machine — Year of tha Boomerang

[Verse] The sisters are in so check the front line Seems I spent the '80s in the Haiti state of mind Cast me into classes for electroshock Straight incarcerated, the curriculum's a cell block I'm swimming in half truths and it makes me wanna spit Instructor come separate the healthy from the sick Ya weigh me on a scale, smelling burnt skin It's dark now in Dachau and I'm screaming from within 'Cause I'm cell locked in the doctrines of the right Enslaved by dogma, talk about my birthrights Yet at every turn I'm running into Hell's gates So I grip the cannon like Fanon and pass the shells to my classmates Aw, power to the people 'Cause the boss's right to live is mine to die So I'm going out heavy sorta like Mount Tai With the five centuries of penitentiary so let the guilty hang In the year of the boomerang [Chorus] I got no property but yo, I'm a piece of it So let the guilty hang I got no property but yo, I'm a piece of it So let the guilty hang I got no property but yo, I'm a piece of it So let the guilty hang I got no property but yo, I'm a piece of it In the year of the boomerang [Bridge] Yeah Now it's upon you Now it's upon you [Verse] The sistas are in so check the front line Seems I spent the '80s in the Haiti state of mind Cast me into classes for electro shock Straight incarcerated, the curriculum's a cell block I'm swimmin' in half truths and it makes me wanna spit Instructor come separate the healthy from the sick Ya weigh me on a scale, smellin' burnt skin It's dark now in Dachau and I'm screamin' from within 'Cause I'm cell locked in tha doctrines of the right Enslaved by dogma, talk about my birthrights Yet at every turn I'm runnin' into Hell's gates So I grip the cannon like Fanon and pass the shells to my classmates Aw, power to the people 'Cause the bosses right to live is mine to die So I'm goin' out heavy sorta like Mount Tai With the five centuries of penitentiary so let the guilty hang In the year of the boomerang [Chorus] I got no property but yo, I’m a piece of it So let tha guilty hang I got no property but yo, I’m a piece of it In the year of the Boomerang I got no property but yo, I’m a piece of it So let tha guilty hang I got no property but yo, I’m a piece of it In the year of the boomerang [Outro] Yeah Now it's upon you Now it's upon you You You You You You You You You Yeah