Evil Empire (album)
Evil Empire is the second studio album by American rap metal band Rage Against the Machine. It was released on April 16, 1996, almost four years after the band's self-titled debut album.
Album background
The album's title is taken from the phrase "evil empire", which was used by former U.S. President Ronald Reagan and many conservatives in describing the former Soviet Union. The cover is the altered image by Mel Ramos and features Ari Meisel as the subject. The caption "EVIL EMPIRE" and letter "e" on the boy's costume were originally "c" and "CRIME BUSTER". Additional themes for the album were created by Barbara Kruger, and some of her artwork appears in the video clip for "Bulls on Parade", which became the first single for the album. As with their debut, five singles were released in total.
The inside of the CD booklet shows a picture of a pile of various political and philosophical books including A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn, Capital, Volume I by Karl Marx, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, and The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell.
A Face
A face can be up
A face can be down
A face can be as funny as the face of a clown
A face can show just how you feel inside
When your eyes open up
And your smile opens wide
Your eyes could be brown
Your eyes could be blue
But there's never ever any other face just like you
When you're sad or crying
And you don't know what to do--
Somebody's face can happen along
And smile the sunshine back into you
A face can show just how you feel inside
When your eyes open up
And your smile opens wide
Your eyes could be brown
(Or) Your eyes could be blue
But there's never ever any other face just like you
When you're sad or crying
And you don't know what to do--
Somebody's face can happen along
And smile the sunshine back into you