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Rage Against the Machine - Evil Empire

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Release date: 30 November 1995

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Rage Against the Machine - Evil Empire: Wikipedia Album Entry

Evil Empire is the second album by Rage Against the Machine. Released on April 16, 1996, almost four years after the band's first, self-titled album named Rage Against the Machine.
The album's title is taken from the phrase "evil empire", which was used by former U.S. President Ronald Reagan and many Western conservatives in describing the former Soviet Union.

The track "Bulls on Parade" became the first single and, as with their debut, five singles were released in total.

Evil Empire debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200. The song "Tire Me" won the 1996 Grammy award for Best Metal Performance. The tracks "Bulls on Parade" and "People of the Sun" were both nominated for Grammy's for Best Hard Rock Performance in separate years.

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Rage Against the Machine - Evil Empire Lyrics

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Turn on the radio, nah fuck it, turn it off
Fear is your only God on the radio
Nah fuck it, turn it off

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Rage Against the Machine - Revolver Lyrics

His spit is worth more than her work
Pass the purse to the pugilists
But he's a prizefighter
And he bought rings and he owns kin

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Rage Against the Machine - Snakecharmer Lyrics

Satellites and pair of mirrors and
And a man without a home
With a horse and a rider
And a clever cunning killer

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Rage Against the Machine - Tire Me Lyrics

Yeah ya tryin' ta tire me, tire me
I can see you in front of me, front of me
Ya tryin' ta tire me, tire me
Why don't you get from in front of me

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Rage Against the Machine - Down Rodeo Lyrics

Yeah I'm rollin' down rodeo with a shotgun
These people ain't seen a brown skin man
Since their grandparents bought one

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Rage Against the Machine - Without A Face Lyrics

Uh, got no card so I got no soul
Life is prison, no parole, no control
The jura got my number on a wire tap
'Cause I jack for similac, fuck a Cadillac

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Rage Against the Machine - Wind Below Lyrics

Flip this capital eclipse
The vocal tone has got 'em sweatin' their own apocalypse
Yes, rebel of the grains stand masterless
The masked one's cap one, NAFTA comin' with the new disaster

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Rage Against the Machine - Roll Right Lyrics

Mic check, one, two
Mic check, one, two
Mic check, one, two

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Rage Against the Machine - Year Of Tha Boomerang Lyrics

The sistas are in so check the front line
It seems I spent the '80s in a Haiti state of mind
Cast me into classes for electro shock
Straight incarcerated, the curriculum a cell block

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