Lyrics for Sleep Now In The Fire as interpreted by piesupreme

Sleep Now In The Fire Lyrics
The world is my expense
The cost of my desire
Jesus blessed me with its future
And I protect it with fire
So raise your fists
And march around
Just dont take what you need
I'll jail and bury those committed
And smother the rest in greed
Crawl with me into tomorrow
Or I'll drag you to your grave
Im deep inside your children
They'll betray you in my name

Sleep now in the fire

The lie is my expense
The scope of my desire
The party blessed me with its future
And I protect it with fire
I am the Nina The Pinta The Santa Maria
The noose and the rapist
The fields overseer
The agents of orange
The priests of Hiroshima
The cost of my desire
Sleep now in the fire

Sleep now in the fire

For it's the end of history
Its caged and frozen still
There is no other pill to take
So swallow the one
That made you ill
The Nina The Pinta The Santa Maria
The noose and the rapist
The fields overseer
The agents of orange
The priests of Hiroshima
The cost of my desire
Sleep now in the fire

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hammbone
05-15-2002

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I think it talks about America because of the lyrics " I am the Nina, the Pinta, the Santa Maria" the next line may talk about the horrors within, the next two about the things America unleashes on the world. and the final two about America doing a lot of things it wants to because it can. GO AMERICA

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noneedfordav
05-23-2002

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If you've seen the video, then you'll know that that's true. All people on a WWTBAM spin-off "Who wants to be filthy stinking rich?" and all the contenstants are answering questions greedily about homeless people and racism etc.

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c0nfuzi
06-08-2002

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First of all, the song is entertaining. Secondo, it gets people attention to society issues by their critics from the lyrics...
DAMN i like that!

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steve-dave415
06-19-2002

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First of all song kicks major league ass.Secondly I fell that this song is about how in America people are arrested for rape and murder, but during war you can decimate whole cities and walk the streets the next day. For example: Hiroshima during WW2 was completly destroyed by American bombs. That is all.

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bizarre
07-06-2002

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This song has nothing to do with rape or murder. This song is sung literally from Greed's point of view. The song is a personification of greed. Greed is deep inside of our children, greed was at the heart of 'Nam ("agents of orange" refers to Agent Orange, a nerve gas used in Vietnam) and the bombing of Hiroshima.

But what really matters is that this song rocks so hard. I'm 100% serious when I say that Rage is remembered second for their lyrics, and first for their hard rocking and sweet grooves. Tom Morello is a god of guitar.

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Lets_kill_music
07-07-2002

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Definitely about greed

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dead_kennedys
07-09-2002

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ive never heard much of rage but when searching for some michael moore stuff on kazaa i came upon sleep now in the fire video so i dled it and watched it

what a great video and i think i just started to like ratm and i think bizarre is right on

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Edo
07-19-2002

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Not just greed: it's about corporatist globalization. "The End of History" is a book by Francis Fukuyama, basically saying that "free-market capitalism" is inevitable, resistance is futile (if not evil for interfering with the course of history), and the best way to go would be to just embrace it.

To just swallow the poison pill, as it were.

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Binsk
07-28-2002

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The nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria we're Christoper Columbus Ships. (Columbus is the second guy to discover North American, just thought i would tell all the dumb people or the people who don't live next to you hostile americans.)

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Rain_O_Pain
08-17-2002

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Oh god, I love this song.
Zack's lyrics...Tom's sweet guitar work. It's a masterpiece.

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godisadrug
09-05-2002

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Actualy Agent Orange was a defoliant, meaning it made plants drop their leaves. Tons of it was sprayed all over Nam to expose the enemy. Nobody, at the time, knew that it seriously messed people up including giving them cancer. -Just a little fact-

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Playitifitsgood
09-09-2002

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the song is about how the people who you americans work so hard to protect and who you trust are the very same people who are not working hard to protect you but instead want your money and want your vote

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wrinkledPhole
09-17-2002

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Well said by bizarre, this song is the personification of greed, but not just greed alone, its about the greed thats found capitalism. An anti-capitalism song, I mean the day they closed the stock market was the only day in history(before 9/11) that the stock market closed on a regular workday. How's that for RAGE!

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grimerx54x
03-15-2003

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This song of emnity from an extreme liberal reflects his view of American government as intensly conservative. His loss of faith in the system is discernably deeply rooted as he expresses his scrupulous ideals about the misuse of power. He starts off by pointing out that when America gained all of its power, it was trusted to guide the world on a righteous path.(lines1-4) However, corruption led to the power laying in the hands of the greedy, and that while America still shows its supposed high ideals by letting people speak freely and stand for themselves, the promised carte blanche is empty and worthless.(lines 5-7) He goes on to state that Big Brother will protect its 'Pigs' by eliminating those that pose a threat to abidement of the status quo. His final two lines of the first verse say that his ideals are inside the new generation, and that eventually the young will fix things. The next two verses point out events in which America took advantage of others. He names Colombus' ships, which brought the Anglo-Saxon people to the new world, and eradicated the Native Americans for European greed. He names the noose, which was used on black slaves in a world where 'all men are created equal' and used by self proclaimed vigilantes who would kill those who disagreed with them. He names the Rapist, someone who totally takes advantage of another. The fields overseer was the cruel monster who would watch the slaves work, and beat them. The agents of orange are a chemical agent used in Bio-warfare during Vienam. The priests of Hiroshima are in reference to all the civillians killed in the A-Bomb drops of 1945. The cost of my desire, is the greed of American Corporations. At the beginnging of the second and third verse he says two different lines. In the second he says that 'the lie is the governments expense for it to attain its craving. The party are the leaders who profit off American greed. The beginning of the last verse states that the hunger for money will lead to the end of the world, and that we are at the brink of disaster. He says the government wants you to believe this is the only way, so take it 'though it made you ill'.

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linkinparkdeftones
03-24-2003

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what does the line jesus blessed me with his future and ill protect it with fire mean?

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aphekqs
03-28-2003

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linkinparkdeftones:

It's referring to the lines preceding it, "the world is my expense, the cost of my desire". It's saying that "Jesus blessed me to lead the world into it's future, and I'll protect the world with fire (that could be capitalism, greed, etc.)."
I think it may be referring to how our government has many very religious people running it, and they believe that many of the diplomatic/corporate decisions that are made coincide with their religious beliefs. They believe they are always doing the right thing, sort of.

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agntorange
04-30-2003

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cough cough... imperialism.

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Sushi_Eating_Fish
05-09-2003

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So did RATM actually make the stock market closed on a regular workday. How, what happened, what's the story... ?

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aj's_username
05-12-2003

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tom morello truly is a guitar god

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Captain__Anarchy
06-08-2003

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They played on wall street, check the video. Why did the stock market close just cos they were playing? i dont get it. Hehe, didnt Michael Moore get arrested on the video?

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nigguh.please
06-18-2003

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The drums in this song are tight as hell. Makes me wanna dance. Especially the really basic ones in the beginning. I really wish Rage were around. I'd totally pay anything to see them live.

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Revelation
07-04-2003

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I'm going with a metaphor for the capitalistic and imperialistic nature of America. I guess that pretty much encompasses greed. And as far as the last verse goes, I think Zach's pretty much saying that we're going to have to accept our destructive ways since it's going to inevitable ruin us. (For its the end of history. Its caged and frozen still. There is no other pill to take. So swallow the one that made you ill.)

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Revelation
07-04-2003

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I'm going with a metaphor for the capitalistic and imperialistic nature of America. I guess that pretty much encompasses greed. And as far as the last verse goes, I think Zach's pretty much saying that we're going to have to accept our destructive ways since it's going to inevitable ruin us. (For its the end of history. Its caged and frozen still. There is no other pill to take. So swallow the one that made you ill.)

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swedish147
04-20-2004

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I noticed that a lot of people mentioned the lines at the end of the song
"For its the end of history
Its caged and frozen still
There is no other pill to take
So swallow the one
That made you ill"
and said that RATM is basically conceding that corporate domination of the world is inevitible. But remember that this song is a parody of capitalists, imperialists, and the like. Those lines mock what corporate America wants to public to think - that the battle has already been lost, that trying to resist it is worthless. The fact that the capitalists would have to say this proves that the battle has yet to be one. RATM is saying to keep fighting for democracy: politically and economically.

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sicpuppy9872001
04-21-2004

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Rage wouldnt fight for democracy, theyre marxists, communists. True communists not like that russian communism bullshit.

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