| Rage Against the Machine – Guerrilla Radio Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| This site is about song meanings not your irrelevant opinion. Its quite obvious you've completely missed the point of RAtM. | |
| Rage Against the Machine – Guerrilla Radio Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| ^fuck off wet blanket | |
| One Day As A Lion – If You Fear Dying Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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"If you fear dying, they you're already dead." This is not a throwaway as GaiusJulius implies. It's a throwback to the "Tire Me" song. Although, it's subtle in text, it is incredibly deep. I think Zack was influenced by the song "You're Already Dead" by the Crass. "If you fear dying" refers to an individual who fears rebellion and the struggle. This person enjoys their complacence. If you are silent, an observer, keeping in line or doing "what you're told," being passive and content as long as you get yours, choosing to sit idly, instead of seeking the truth, speaking out and acting against injustice then you're already dead. You are just a number, branded X, a vegetable, a drone. |
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| Rage Against the Machine – Tire Me Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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"We're already dead." Interesting how so far no one has touched this lyric, yet it's so powerful. I think Zack was influenced by the song "You're Already Dead" by the Crass. So it basically means if you are silent, an observer, keeping in line or doing "what you're told," being passive and content as long as you get yours, choosing to sit idly, instead of seeking the truth, speaking out and acting against injustice then you're already dead. Either you don't know that you're already dead or you enjoy the comfort of complacence. |
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| Rage Against the Machine – Ashes in the Fall Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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"Ain't it funny how the factory's doors close Round the time that the school doors close Round the time that the doors of the jail cells Open up to greet you like the reaper" Outernationalist nailed the interpretation of this verse. Zack was heavily into the Zapatista movement and the problems within the Mexican education system. US corporations opened Maquiladoras, or factories, in Mexico, in order to take advantage of the devalued Mexican peso. Within 10 years, the US corporations closed the factories and moved to Asia, leaving the Mexican laborers nothing, no pension and no severance. Mexico's educational infrastructure is highly dysfunctional. Education is a privilege, not a right. The govt provides free schooling until the 6th grade. From 7th grade until completion, the family pays for textbooks. Children of poor families are mostly likely to drop out. The corruption of Mexico's justice system has reached it's breaking point. Their prisons are revolving doors. The Poor and marginalized - most waiting to be tried, remain indefinitely incarcerated. Although, most prominent in Mexico and third world countries, these issues (on some level) are happening everywhere govt and corporations put profits ahead of people. |
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| Rage Against the Machine – Snakecharmer Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| "Interested in you" is in reference to Uncle Sam, a personification of the US created during World War I. Recruitment posters depicted Uncle Sam pointing to the viewer and declaring "I want you!" The government fools people in thinking they are helping their country: whether it be serving in military or being just another disposable worker for the clampdown. | |
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