Quote from 1998 Film "Elizabeth":
Norfolk: I'm content to die for my beliefs, so cut off my head and make me a martyr. The people will always remember it.
Walsingham: No, they will forget.
Spoken:
A man who walks with God, can walk anywhere.
Hence I fear nothing.
The point of Guerrilla war is not to succeed
It's always been just to make the enemy bleed
Deprivin' the soldiers, of the peace of mind that they need
Bullets are hard to telegraph, when they bob and they weave
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 fightin' for freedom as terrorists
Then find a faction lookin' for foreign investment
Install them in power and murder any objections
You cant stop a revolution from breathin'
So to beat them they offer people the illusion of freedom
But when you're done dreamin' and wake up tortured for treason
Then you can see them hidin' behind the God they believe in
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!)
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 their used in
And realized it too late, like the shootin' of Huey Newton
Or Patrice Lumumba and Salvador Allende
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 F.B.I.
But to blast him they used Muslims from the N.O.I.
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
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!)
Guerilla war when the army is gone
That’s the place a Martyr is born (Motherfucker it's on!)
Spoken:
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 at the heart of a war, and that’s the place a Martyr is born.
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