Conoce a tus enemigos - Know your enemy de Rage Against The Machine

Esta canción es del álbum homónimo de Rage Against The Machine, disco que escuchaba en cassette. ¡Sí, en cassette! Me acuerdo que me lo prestó mi primo Ale y no se lo devolví en años, me encantaba.

Know your enemy se trata de una crítica al estilo de vida americano en forma bastante violenta y anárquica. Yo diría que es la canción más emblemática y representativa de la postura de Rage Against The Machine. Su visión de mundo es tan radical que se dice que los censuran en las radios estadounidenses.

Polémica aparte, estos gallos tiene dos grandes cosas que los distinguen: la voz de Zack De La Rocha y la guitarra con efectos que están presentes en todos los álbumes y que hace que uno siempre los reconozca.

Leí por ahí que se reunieron y que siguen dando conciertos. Ojalá sea verdad y vengan a Chile.

Por mi parte, no conozco a mis enemigos, porque no tengo: nadie está a la altura. A lo más alguna que otra persona insignificante que me odie por aquí o por allá, pero nada de importancia.

En fin, conozcan a sus enemigos y que tengan una rockeada tarde de domingo.

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Yeah, were comin back then with another bombtrack
Think ya know what its all about
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Hey yo, so check this out
Yeah!
Know your enemy!
Come on!

Born with insight and a raised fist
A witness to the slit wrist, thats with
As we move into 92
Still in a room without a view
Ya got to know
Ya got to know
That when I say go, go, go
Amp up and amplify
Defy
Im a brother with a furious mind
Action must be taken
We dont need the key
Well break in

Something must be done
About vengeance, a badge and a gun
cause Ill rip the mike, rip the stage, rip the system
I was born to rage against em

Fist in ya face, in the place
And Ill drop the style clearly
Know your enemy...know your enemy!

Yeah!

Hey yo, and dick with this...uggh!
Word is born
Fight the war, fuck the norm
Now I got no patience
So sick of complacence
With the d the e the f the I the a the n the c the e
Mind of a revolutionary
So clear the lane

The finger to the land of the chains
What? the land of the free?
Whoever told you that is your enemy
Now something must be done

About vengeance, a badge and a gun
cause Ill rip the mike, rip the stage, rip the system
I was born to rage against em
Now action must be taken

We dont need the key
Well break in
 Ive got no patience now
So sick of complacence now
Ive got no patience now
So sick of complacence now
Sick of sick of sick of sick of you
Time has come to pay...
Know your enemy!

Come on!
Yes I know my enemies
Theyre the teachers who taught me to fight me
Compromise, conformity, assimilation, submission
Ignorance, hypocrisy, brutality, the elite
All of which are american dreams (8 times)