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| Rage Against the Machine – Down Rodeo Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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the quiet peaceful dance refers to the idea that even though the poor is disenfranchised, there is little they can do and in a way they resign themselves to their state or 'a quiet peaceful dance', suggesting that we go down without a fight and the things that the rich have, will never reach their hands. |
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| Rage Against the Machine – Down Rodeo Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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This song is about the class divide between the rich and poor. RATM use the context of Rodeo drive in Beverly Hills as a scenario for the message. Rocha talks about the poor classes working day in and day out, but still unable to make ends meet. As a result of the low income, crime goes up and the neighborhood becomes a real mess (school becomes a precinct, toxic rock referring to cocaine and other drugs which decimate low income populations both physically and psychologically). The first few lines, "so i'm rollin down rodeo with a shotgun...' serves as a reminder of the LA riots of 1992, or at least what the rich feared at that point. |
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