Well it's pretty obvious that this song is all about how everyone lives to please the world. That's would be the symbolic part of "feeding the machine." Everyone has let the world determine who they really are instead of finding out themselves. We are just giving in and doing what everyone else wants us to do and when we are on the brink of figuring it all out the world just wants us to fall back asleep and do what they tell us. This is when Red says to wake up and open your eyes. Realize that you don't have a personality, but the world owns who you are. So you need to "kill the machine" and throw everything away. Go against the world and find your own faces. Great song!
I agree with kimpmyride - the machine is the system of the world - of sin and culture controlled by Satan. The pressure of the world is to conform (give up and feed the machine)- hide our innocence, fall in line with what others are doing, chose a face that looks like what the world expects of us. But it turns out that we are simply choosing a new master - the ways of the world grow inside us and we are enslaved by sin - living only to feed our own pleasures and those around us. ...
I agree with kimpmyride - the machine is the system of the world - of sin and culture controlled by Satan. The pressure of the world is to conform (give up and feed the machine)- hide our innocence, fall in line with what others are doing, chose a face that looks like what the world expects of us. But it turns out that we are simply choosing a new master - the ways of the world grow inside us and we are enslaved by sin - living only to feed our own pleasures and those around us. Only Christ can free us - wake us up - kill the machine and the expectations of the world and our culture.
By the way the lyrics listed here are clearly wrong - it is not "They pull you faster the gate is calling" it is "they pull you faster, the cadence calling" The cadence is the beat to a song. The world wants us to march to it's beat, keep up with our cultural expectations of who we are supposed to be. As Christians we need to stop trying to be like the world and be free in Christ.
Well it's pretty obvious that this song is all about how everyone lives to please the world. That's would be the symbolic part of "feeding the machine." Everyone has let the world determine who they really are instead of finding out themselves. We are just giving in and doing what everyone else wants us to do and when we are on the brink of figuring it all out the world just wants us to fall back asleep and do what they tell us. This is when Red says to wake up and open your eyes. Realize that you don't have a personality, but the world owns who you are. So you need to "kill the machine" and throw everything away. Go against the world and find your own faces. Great song!
I agree with kimpmyride - the machine is the system of the world - of sin and culture controlled by Satan. The pressure of the world is to conform (give up and feed the machine)- hide our innocence, fall in line with what others are doing, chose a face that looks like what the world expects of us. But it turns out that we are simply choosing a new master - the ways of the world grow inside us and we are enslaved by sin - living only to feed our own pleasures and those around us. ...
I agree with kimpmyride - the machine is the system of the world - of sin and culture controlled by Satan. The pressure of the world is to conform (give up and feed the machine)- hide our innocence, fall in line with what others are doing, chose a face that looks like what the world expects of us. But it turns out that we are simply choosing a new master - the ways of the world grow inside us and we are enslaved by sin - living only to feed our own pleasures and those around us. Only Christ can free us - wake us up - kill the machine and the expectations of the world and our culture. By the way the lyrics listed here are clearly wrong - it is not "They pull you faster the gate is calling" it is "they pull you faster, the cadence calling" The cadence is the beat to a song. The world wants us to march to it's beat, keep up with our cultural expectations of who we are supposed to be. As Christians we need to stop trying to be like the world and be free in Christ.