This probably isn't what it was really written about, but I feel like this entire song is about an average citizen living in Soviet Russia.
He feels "deplored, ignored, and self-assured" because they were expected to be part of society and nothing else as individuals. The "ones with everything have nothing inside" refers to the machine like government. This government claimed to be for the people, but really they just took what they wanted and exploited people as much as the czars they hated did.
The next 2 lines of rhetorical questions address the soviet government. "I'm losing faith and I'm running low on things to say / So I guess I have no choice but to regurgitate / The tired anthem of a loser and a hypocrite" is about how easy it was to be thrown in jail for participating in the "counter-revolution" in Russia if you didn't actively participate in soviet social activities.
Then the part about "the west" addresses how the western world really doesn't know anything about communism - at least here in America, most people here communism and think of it as it soviet russia is how communist theory is supposed to be, not realizing the evil of the USSR was the despotism, not the form of economy.
This probably isn't what it was really written about, but I feel like this entire song is about an average citizen living in Soviet Russia.
He feels "deplored, ignored, and self-assured" because they were expected to be part of society and nothing else as individuals. The "ones with everything have nothing inside" refers to the machine like government. This government claimed to be for the people, but really they just took what they wanted and exploited people as much as the czars they hated did.
The next 2 lines of rhetorical questions address the soviet government. "I'm losing faith and I'm running low on things to say / So I guess I have no choice but to regurgitate / The tired anthem of a loser and a hypocrite" is about how easy it was to be thrown in jail for participating in the "counter-revolution" in Russia if you didn't actively participate in soviet social activities.
Then the part about "the west" addresses how the western world really doesn't know anything about communism - at least here in America, most people here communism and think of it as it soviet russia is how communist theory is supposed to be, not realizing the evil of the USSR was the despotism, not the form of economy.