Lyric discussion by TakeOnSnake 

Cover art for Know Your Enemy lyrics by Rage Against the Machine

Rage's idea with the first album was to make music that got normal people into politics. This song uses not hard to get lyrics to lure people into the political meaning. The only time when it gets a little foggy is at the end, but that is Zach's message that our own teachers and parents pound patriotism into us...........Basically we need to fuck the norm.

And the only reason we have an American Dream is because too many of us are sleeping.