Chords for 10 Unforgettable Rage Against the Machine Moments

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_ [C#] _ [D] _ _ [E] Why [Am] the name Rage Against the Machine?
It just seemed appropriate for _ [Em] that thing it is that we do.
[D] So, Zach [E] came up with [G#] the name.
[Em] It was originally going to [E] be the_
Zach [Am] played in a hardcore band called Inside Out and it was originally going to be the
name of the next Inside Out record.
But it seemed very appropriate for [D] the kind of [C] music we were playing and the attitude
and the politics that were coming across.
[G] I was wondering which machine the Rage is against.
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[D] _ _ _ [A] The _ [E] Fax Machine, the Pinball Machine.
[G] Machine can be [D] anything from the _
[E] _ police on the streets of Los Angeles who can pull motorists
[Em] from their cars and beat them to a pulp and get away from it [D] to the overall international
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_ _ [E] state [G] capitalist machinery that tries to make you just a mindless cog [D] and to [Am] have no_
not to think critically [E] and never to confront the system but just to kind of behave [Am] and
look forward to the weekend and the next six pack of beer.
[F#] Rage Against the Machine [Bm] bassist [C#] Tim Comerford was arrested after he disrupted the show by
[Gm] climbing part of the set.
The next time they came out from commercial [D] break, I wanted people to see [G] destruction.
This guy is rock and roll.
He should be getting the [C] award.
It was just [G] one of those things where like once I was up there, it's like, wow, now what
are you going to [C] do?
The cops, they were embarrassed and [G#] humiliated and frustrated because they could not [C] get
the cat out of the tree.
Charles [G#] Manson's little brother up there.
To be honest with you, I thought [C] it was a _ beautifully [G#] honest act of frustration.
Tim C spent one night in jail, pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct and was released on time [D] served.
Fuck you, I won't do what you _ _ _ _ tell me.
Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me.
Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me. _ _
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[N] Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me.
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[A#m] I myself asked questions, run down on the sidewalk [F] by 15, 30 seconds.
Maybe you should have gotten out of the way when you were told.
Next question.
Maybe three months [Em] into the start of this band, _ _ Public Enemy _ [N] asked us to play a gig
with them up in San Luis Obispo.
I think they were a band like Public Enemy.
For them to be supportive of us meant a lot to me.
It was a really cool thing that they wanted us to open for them.
_ _ They're really cool guys.
_ They seemed to be into _ what we were doing.
_ Otherwise I don't think they would have had us playing with them.
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_ _ [B] The guitar has two pickups, right?
The volume for one of them is turned to zero so you don't hear anything.
The volume on the other one is turned [E] to ten [N] so it's very loud.
When you switch between the two it acts as a kill switch.
So if you add a little white noise to that and rub your fingers along the strings [A#] you
get a little_
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[G] my God!
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_ _ _ [G] _ [C] You [D] are awesome!
_ [G] Living in the States, you're living in one of the most brutal [G#] societies in the history
of the world. _
[F] A country who inherited the _ [F#] genocide of [G#] the Native American [N] peoples.
A country which participated in chateau slavery.
_ The only country in the world to use and drop an atomic bomb on another country. _
_ The _ _ _ country which murdered and enslaved millions in Southeast Asia as a result of the Vietnam War.
We drew from the people who resisted.
We were inspired because we feel that any society or any government or any system that
is set up solely to profit a wealthy class, _ while the majority of the people toil and
suffer and sell their labor power, _ _ _ so long as that system's only _ [F] true _ _ motive is profit
interest and not the maintenance _ and _ _ [A] _ betterment of the population _ to meeting human [G#] needs,
then that society should not stand.
_ [A] It should be challenged and questioned and overthrown.
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