Replica

If you've ever read "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" by Philip K. Dick (hence the "Electric Sheep" remix) or seen the movie Blade Runner, you'll know exactly what this song is about. It's lyrics are from the perspective of one of the androids/replicants looking at it's own life and how "people" view it's life. I always loved Fear Factory for being scifi nerds like me.

I'll link an interview with Burton C Bell in wich he explain the meaning of the song, It's basically about a child conceived by rape

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.....or from cloning.???? either way is a kick-ass song and fear factory is the shit. it sux that they broke up but i dont know what was goin on on the inside.

Interesting thoughts guys. Never thought much into Fear Factory songs before, but it makes alot of sesne now.

Good song by the way.

i think by 'rape' it means to be a rape of nature - artificial life? Highly intelligent machines?

You guys look way too much into the song and not enough at who the band is; it's FEAR FACTORY. You know, the guys that mastered CONCEPT ALBUMS? Their theme has always been the war between man and machine, obviously in the future. Well, when you think about it with that logic, the song is exactly what the second poster said; cloning. REPLICA. "I am a duplication". Not "Will I be a duplication?", "I AM a duplication". He's a clone, stop making it an issue of rape or abortion. The mention of rape in the song isn't the same meaning of rape that our generation has made it into, there are multiple meanings to the word rape, look it up.

Maybe this song is called replica because he was born from rape, and he is scared that that particular genetic defect will be passed down to him, becoming a replica of his father. Just as children who suffer abuse from their parents can become abusive themselves, this song is from the viewpoint of a child of a rapist who worries that he will become a rapist himself.

I think that you all think too much. its too much of a metaphor. It is about anyone born into hatred (most of our generation). Chill out and please dont try to associate fear factory with abortion issues.

I think it's perfectly credible to think it's about rape. But considering the main premise of Fear Factory up to this point has been a struggle of man vs. machine, I think this song is about cloning or genetic engineering. What are the results of playing God?

"Duplication Innocently"- Scientists only seeing the positives of cloning, not meaning harm to anyone doing it.

"Conceived so violently"- Conceived through genetic engineering. Can't be a pretty process.

The product of engineering has no love, has no family. The product isn't even his own man, he's a replica of someone else. So "I am rape, I am hate" turns into the feeling of the clone. He has been raped of his individuality, he hates himself and whoever did this to him.

I've always been the kind of person who feels that whatever a person gets out of a song is right. The message of the song is different for everyone. I think Burton is a deep guy, and Fear Factory was all about the concept of man going so far technologically as to destroy himself. So while this can be taken as the quite literal rape example, I think his intention is about cloning.

Great song one of my favorites. Demanufacture = Kickarse.