Artist: Immortal Technique Album: The Martyr Song: The Martyr Typed by: OHHLA Webmaster DJ Flash [dialogue from "Elizabeth"] I'm content to die for my beliefs. So cut off my head, and make me a martyr. The people will allways remember it. No, they will forget. [Immortal Technique] A man who walks with God... can walk anywhere Hence, I fear nothing (yeah!) The point of Guerrilla war is not to succeed It's always been just to make the enemy bleed Depriving the soldiers of the peace of mind that they need Bullets are hard to telegraph, when they bob and they weave (Watch~!) The only way a guerrilla war can ever be over is when the occupation can't afford more soldiers Until they have to draft the last of you, into the service And you refuse cause you don't see the purpose The only way to counter the insurgents that are well equipped (how?) is to paint the people fighting for freedom as terrorists Then find a faction looking for foreign investment Install them in power and murder any objections You can't stop a revolution from breathing So to beat 'em they offer people the illusion of freedom But when you're done dreaming and wake up tortured for treason then you can see them hiding behind the God they believe in! [Chorus] Deep in the trenches in the heart of a war that's the place a martyr is born (motherfucker it's on!) During the night before the start of the dawn that's the place a martyr is born (motherfucker it's on!) When gunshots are raining in the heart of a storm that's the place a martyr is born (motherfucker it's on!) Guerrilla war when the army is gone That's the place a martyr is born (motherfucker it's on!) [Immortal Technique] The purpose of life is a life with a purpose So I'd rather die for a cause than live a life that is worthless I don't need the circus or the day of national observance I need you to think for you and stop being a servant Pawns only move a square in the game that they're used to And realize it too late, like the shooting of Huey Newton or Patrice Lumumba and Salvador Allender Slaughtered by the power hungry branches of their own gente Ghandi wasn't killed, by Pakistani nationals He was assassinated by a Hindu radical And Che Guevara rebel to a U.S. continent was sold to the C.I.A. by Bolivian communists Wasn't Itzhak Rabin murdered by a Zionist and Anwar Sadat a victim of the same violence? Malcolm X was seen as a threat to the FBI but to blast him they used Muslims from the NOI Even the 35th President of the Republic was murdered by factions of his own government So now that it's proven that a soldier of revolution or head of an empire disguised in the constitution cannot escape the retribution or manipulation of the self-appointed rulers of the planets corporations So I'ma need every generation to put your hands up Cause you can only get 'em off your back when you stand up! [Chorus] [Immortal Technique] I was a man, blessed by God to survive... some of the worst circumstances I had many things: a beautiful woman I loved a home, money... and I gave it all up to bleed and to die free Sometimes I look back on that life and I wonder what it would have been like In the moments of weakness I think about trading it But then I snap the fuck out of it and I get back to my reality and I realize.. that I've been the heart of a war And that's the place a martyr is born