First 2 stanza's are about the sale of public/municipal lands to corporations to build commercial properties without caring about the local residents.
ie, Walmart coming into a community, 'buying' the land, that's a park and popping up a store because the powers that be think they know best what benefits a community and ignoring local protests against it..
Stanza's 3 and 4 are about individuals rights versus a corporations rights when it comes to intellectual property. If you are working for a company and come up with an idea and try to patent it, nearly all corporations have legal rights to the idea first, unless they reject it and allow you to pursue it.
Let us not forget Steve Wozniak inventing the PC while working for, I believe, it was xerox or another company. He had to get their approval before trying to sell them. If you have a patent and try to sell the idea or rights to produce it to a company and it's rejected, they can turn around, reverse engineer it, change enough to file their own patent and put you out of business.
Your trusted servants are the members of the government at any level, who are supposed to serve you, but have done nothing to limit the scope of control corporations have with industrial espionage and the lobbyists in Washington.
5 and 6 are pretty self-explanatory.. You can try to pay attention but the back-room deals made between corporations and washington and politician's in general, we are oblivious to. They keep doing it and doing it.
The last several are that big brother, is in fact watching you. That you are the working poor and that it's hard but you have to do what you have to do. If you're apathetic about things that are happening (between your politicians and corporations and allow it to continue) you will be much worse off down the road.
"You think that you're so smart
But you don't have a fucking clue
What those men up in the towers
Are doing to me and you"
You've got the wrong towers Beth.. He is talking about the men, standing in the ivory towers, looking down on all the lowly people..
First 2 stanza's are about the sale of public/municipal lands to corporations to build commercial properties without caring about the local residents.
ie, Walmart coming into a community, 'buying' the land, that's a park and popping up a store because the powers that be think they know best what benefits a community and ignoring local protests against it..
Stanza's 3 and 4 are about individuals rights versus a corporations rights when it comes to intellectual property. If you are working for a company and come up with an idea and try to patent it, nearly all corporations have legal rights to the idea first, unless they reject it and allow you to pursue it.
Let us not forget Steve Wozniak inventing the PC while working for, I believe, it was xerox or another company. He had to get their approval before trying to sell them. If you have a patent and try to sell the idea or rights to produce it to a company and it's rejected, they can turn around, reverse engineer it, change enough to file their own patent and put you out of business.
Your trusted servants are the members of the government at any level, who are supposed to serve you, but have done nothing to limit the scope of control corporations have with industrial espionage and the lobbyists in Washington.
5 and 6 are pretty self-explanatory.. You can try to pay attention but the back-room deals made between corporations and washington and politician's in general, we are oblivious to. They keep doing it and doing it.
The last several are that big brother, is in fact watching you. That you are the working poor and that it's hard but you have to do what you have to do. If you're apathetic about things that are happening (between your politicians and corporations and allow it to continue) you will be much worse off down the road.
"You think that you're so smart But you don't have a fucking clue What those men up in the towers Are doing to me and you"
You've got the wrong towers Beth.. He is talking about the men, standing in the ivory towers, looking down on all the lowly people..
Not the WTC Towers..