Year of tha Boomerang

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Year of tha Boomerang by Rage Against The Machine

About Year of tha Boomerang

"Year of tha Boomerang" is a song by American rock band Rage Against the Machine. It originally appeared in the film and on the soundtrack of Higher Learning in 1994 and was eventually included on their second studio album, Evil Empire (1996). On the back of the soundtrack, the song is called "Year of the Boomerang". Although the track was released as a promotional radio CD single, it was never given a domestic release. "Year of the Boomerang" made its live debut at Cal State Dominguez Hills in Carson, California on April 29, 1994. .

Year of tha Boomerang Lyrics

[00:09.76] Tha sistas are in so check the front line
[00:12.63] Seems I spent the '80s in the Haiti state of mind
[00:15.38] Cast me into classes for electro shock
[00:18.15] Straight incarcerated, the curriculum's a cell block
[00:20.89] I'm swimmin' in half truths and it makes me wanna spit
[00:23.62] Instructor come separate the healthy from the sick
[00:26.44] Ya weigh me on a scale, I'm smellin' burnt skin
[00:29.18] It's dark now in Dachau and I'm screamin' from within
[00:31.95] 'Cause I'm a cell locked in tha doctrines of tha right
[00:34.63] Enslaved by dogma, talk about my birthrights
[00:37.53] Yet at every turn I'm runnin' into hell's gates
[00:40.29] So I grip tha cannon like Fanon an pass tha shells to my classmates
[00:47.75] All power to the people, 'cause tha boss's right to live is mine ta die
[00:51.05] So I'm going out heavy sorta like Mount Tai
[00:54.27] Wit the five centuries of penitentiary so let the guilty hang
[00:58.62] In the year of tha boomerang
[01:00.71] I got no property but yo I'm a piece of it
[01:04.71] So let the guilty hang
[01:06.34] I got no property but yo I'm a piece of it
[01:09.96] In tha year of tha boomerang
[01:11.82] I got no property but yo I'm a piece of it
[01:15.93] So let the guilty hang
[01:17.44] I got no property but yo I'm a piece of it
[01:21.11] In tha year of tha boomerang
[01:24.85]
[01:29.27] Yeah
[01:31.66]
[01:39.62] Now it's upon you
[01:44.73] Now it's upon you
[01:51.17]
[01:54.13] Tha sistas are in so check the front line
[01:57.18] Seems I spent the '80s in the Haiti state of mind
[02:00.05] Cast me into classes for electro shock
[02:02.79] Straight incarcerated, the curriculum's a cell block
[02:05.44] I'm swimmin' in half truths and it makes me wanna spit
[02:08.29] Instructor come separate the healthy from the sick
[02:11.17] Ya weigh me on a scale, I'm smellin' burnt skin
[02:13.88] It's dark now in Dachau and I'm screamin' from within
[02:16.68] 'Cause I'm a cell locked in tha doctrines of tha right
[02:19.30] Enslaved by dogma, talk about my birthrights
[02:22.23] Yet at every turn I'm runnin' into hell's gates
[02:25.07] So I grip tha cannon like Fanon an pass tha shells to my classmates
[02:28.97] All power to the people, yeah yeah, tha boss' right ta live is mine ta die
[02:33.37] I'm goin' out heavy sorta like Mount Tai
[02:36.21] Wit the five centuries of penitentiary so let the guilty hang
[02:40.64] In the year of tha boomerang
[02:42.62] I got no property but yo I'm a piece of it
[02:46.77] So let the guilty hang
[02:48.21] I got no property but yo I'm a piece of it (Uh!)
[02:51.85] In tha year of tha boomerang
[02:53.78] I got no property but yo I'm a piece of it
[02:57.73] So let the guilty hang
[02:59.29] I got no property but yo I'm a piece of it
[03:02.95] In tha year of tha boomerang
[03:06.69]
[03:21.26] Now it's upon you
[03:26.41] Now it's upon you
[03:30.38] You, you
[03:34.07] You, you
[03:36.49] You, you
[03:38.81] You, you
[03:42.28]
[03:46.40] Yeah!
[03:46.70]

From the album: Evil Empire