To me, this entire album "Rude Awakening" is about the challenges faced by Russia and other ex-Soviet nations during and after the fall of Communism.
So this song is about the mindset created during the Soviet regimes to control people, and how it can persist in the culture through the damage it did even after the Communist government itself had fallen.
Of course, it also reads as a straightforward description of dealing with psychotic authority in any form, including that authority within ourselves - that inner mirror of outward authority that can become ingrained within us, like Stockholm syndrome. That if we're not careful, can continue to hold us back and constrain our lives.
To me, this entire album "Rude Awakening" is about the challenges faced by Russia and other ex-Soviet nations during and after the fall of Communism.
So this song is about the mindset created during the Soviet regimes to control people, and how it can persist in the culture through the damage it did even after the Communist government itself had fallen.
Of course, it also reads as a straightforward description of dealing with psychotic authority in any form, including that authority within ourselves - that inner mirror of outward authority that can become ingrained within us, like Stockholm syndrome. That if we're not careful, can continue to hold us back and constrain our lives.