The song speaks of the lurid hold that the world has over us, or at least tries to obtain. The wolves wear our wool. The heartless winners of this dog eat dog world dominate us and wear our own locks. They may have control of your life, of your look, but your voice they can't take. The spoils of this world are tempting, becasue they hide their "fangs" well. In the end we are disposable. We are the oil that feeds the industry yet the industry defines us and neither the industry could be without us as their cheap thrill or could we be without the indsutry that gives us a "product to push". We are their sitting ducks, their easy target, they try to shoot us down for their own gain. It's almost like an elicit love affair with someone you know to be horrible, yet the image they present is so enticing that you may get caught up in it but then you proclaim that you won't be led astray.
It reminds me of that thought of imagening the amount of suffering and depravity that it takes to build up one person like Rockefeller. And the blindness and deception that it takes to capture people in a state that could only be described as Orwellian and of 1984 in nature.
"I'm not your whore
And I won't be your Babylon" I'm still trying to figure this one out. Babylon, as most of you know was the capital or holy city of Babylonia and most of modern civilization sprung from that region. It is currently located in modern-day Iraq. Perhaps this is an anti-war reference? The war is about greed, the people behind it not only have blood on their hands but they have greasy palms drenched in oil.
But it may also be a religious refernce tothe tower of Babylon? They are not the industries whores and will not gather in zeal like the people of Babylon to erect some sort of misguided tower of Babylon?
The song speaks of the lurid hold that the world has over us, or at least tries to obtain. The wolves wear our wool. The heartless winners of this dog eat dog world dominate us and wear our own locks. They may have control of your life, of your look, but your voice they can't take. The spoils of this world are tempting, becasue they hide their "fangs" well. In the end we are disposable. We are the oil that feeds the industry yet the industry defines us and neither the industry could be without us as their cheap thrill or could we be without the indsutry that gives us a "product to push". We are their sitting ducks, their easy target, they try to shoot us down for their own gain. It's almost like an elicit love affair with someone you know to be horrible, yet the image they present is so enticing that you may get caught up in it but then you proclaim that you won't be led astray.
It reminds me of that thought of imagening the amount of suffering and depravity that it takes to build up one person like Rockefeller. And the blindness and deception that it takes to capture people in a state that could only be described as Orwellian and of 1984 in nature.
"I'm not your whore And I won't be your Babylon" I'm still trying to figure this one out. Babylon, as most of you know was the capital or holy city of Babylonia and most of modern civilization sprung from that region. It is currently located in modern-day Iraq. Perhaps this is an anti-war reference? The war is about greed, the people behind it not only have blood on their hands but they have greasy palms drenched in oil. But it may also be a religious refernce tothe tower of Babylon? They are not the industries whores and will not gather in zeal like the people of Babylon to erect some sort of misguided tower of Babylon?