Lyric discussion by hammbone 

Cover art for Sleep Now In The Fire lyrics by Rage Against the Machine

I think it talks about America because of the lyrics " I am the Nina, the Pinta, the Santa Maria" the next line may talk about the horrors within, the next two about the things America unleashes on the world. and the final two about America doing a lot of things it wants to because it can. GO AMERICA

Ok, so I think this song is all about how America has ultimetely become a greedy nation, from how they refer to the ships sailed by christopher Columbus, from the beginning, which were, the nina, the pinta, the santa maria. This tells us that since the beginning, we've been developing a greedy higher power, to scam the middle class, or whatever lower class they choose to scam, and those people nclude the perspectives of the song,and they will only scam them to get more and more power. I always want to think of Arnold Swarzinegger, and how he borrowed 2...

I agree, it does talk about America and everyone we have screwed. I love America but we are some bullies and one day we will learn. Either the easy way or hard way. The way it looks it won't be the easy way.