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| Rage Against the Machine – Bulls on Parade Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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For some reason when I hear this song, the book 1984 comes to mind. But I'm sure that has nothing to do with the real meaning of the song. But I think it might be about the Mexican Revolution. I think when he says "they don't have to burn the books, they just remove 'em" he's talking about how the Mexican gov't scrapped free public education (or something of that sort..I may be wrong).
But I really like "Terror rains drenchin', quenchin' tha thirst of Tha power dons; That five sided fist-a-gon". To me that means that the gov't who was once pushing wholesome, family values are now using war as the only way to settle disputes and contradicting themselves by urging everyone to help them out by going off to war (ultimately leaving their families and wholesome values behind).
It's as if the gov't, is in some way, greedy and manipulative..Great RAGE song; gotta say.
I'm probably completely off, but I'd really like to see the bands point of view on it. (even though they're broken up) |
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| Rage Against the Machine – The Ghost of Tom Joad (Bruce Springsteen cover) Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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This song has alot of allusions (as does the Grapes of Wrath). We were going over how this song alludes the Grapes of Wrath, and how alot of the Grapes of Wrath was alluded to Biblical passages and what not. My teacher and I were talking after class about what the Grapes of Wrath had to do with the Bible; what we got out of it was that the title was from the book of Revalation, and how they were searching for the "Promise Land" in the book, which is also the term used for the great place the Hebrews would be going after being saved from the eperor by Moses. I just think that's kinda interesting, and I'm not even really religious. But I guess Catholic school isn't so bad after all. hah |
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