"These machines feed on the tears of broken lives and dying dreams
We’re throwing wrenches in the gears
Our lives will not be lived in vain"
To me these lines are about working for the system, being stuck in a dead end pointless job e.t.c.. Just living a pointless life without any meaning wasting away. And in 50 or 100 years all you did with your life really was keeping the machinery up in a recklesss destructive sinking ship.
So this song is saying that there's so much inside of everyone, dreams, feelings, thoughts, ideas, but most people waste away working for someone elses profit all their life and for someone else getting richer and bigger and it all wastes away, working for someone they don't know or someone they hate (boss/capitalist). "Throwing wrenches in the gear" i think means not participating and blindly following along to the rules they made.
Like e.t.c. it'd be bad if Rise Against instead of playing and doing music and what they do would be stuck in a dead end job working for some asshole and his asshole corporation and a fucked up society..
"These machines feed on the tears of broken lives and dying dreams We’re throwing wrenches in the gears Our lives will not be lived in vain"
To me these lines are about working for the system, being stuck in a dead end pointless job e.t.c.. Just living a pointless life without any meaning wasting away. And in 50 or 100 years all you did with your life really was keeping the machinery up in a recklesss destructive sinking ship.
So this song is saying that there's so much inside of everyone, dreams, feelings, thoughts, ideas, but most people waste away working for someone elses profit all their life and for someone else getting richer and bigger and it all wastes away, working for someone they don't know or someone they hate (boss/capitalist). "Throwing wrenches in the gear" i think means not participating and blindly following along to the rules they made.
Like e.t.c. it'd be bad if Rise Against instead of playing and doing music and what they do would be stuck in a dead end job working for some asshole and his asshole corporation and a fucked up society..