Lyrics for New Millenium Homes as interpreted by piesupreme

New Millenium Homes Lyrics
Hungry people dont stay hungry for long
They get hope from fire and smoke as the wheat grows strong

Tha spirit of Jackson
Now screams through tha ruins
Through factory chainsAnd tha ghost of tha union
Forgotten remains
Disappear to their new homes
Tha knife tha thrust
Tha life burns to the raw bone
Tha blood on the floor of the tear is still dryin
Cover the spread sheets
Tha Dow Jones skyin
Cell block live stock
Tha bodies their buyin
Old south order
New northern horizon

Violence in all hands
Embrace it if need be
Livin been warfare
I press it to CD

A fire in the masters house is set

Check tha high tech terror
Yes tha new order athletes
Peer into tha eyes of tha child already on trial
Armies rippin families apart
Get em on file
Convictions fit tha stock profile
All tha while films of dogs
Cutting through homes
Ripping skin from bones
Yes tha new millennium homes
Privatizing through private eyes
An era rising
Of tha old south order
New northern horizon
Violence in all hands
Embrace it if need be
Livin been warfare
I press it to CD

Violence in all hands
Embrace it if need be
Livin been warfare
I press it to CD

A fire in the masters house is set

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element_X
04-11-2004

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I can't believe no-one has commented on this song... it rocks!

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LP
04-24-2004

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element x, I think that this song is a hidden gem in the album. At first I would just listen to it. Now I skip to it first. I love this song too. I guess we will have to wait for more people to discover it.

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capriciouspoet
05-17-2004

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anyone think they know what it means?

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meursaultsrevolver
09-21-2004

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the line 'a fire in the master's house is set' is probably talking about destroying the system in which you are forced to exist, i.e. a slave in his master's house, or in non-metaphor terms, a marxist fucking up the bullshit capitalist regime. this song rocks the stratosphere

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revolverisgay
07-02-2005

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Same with me LP, I skip straight to this song as soon as I put the CD in. Great song, more people need to discover it, its hidden in such a mass of great songs.

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JujubeParade
07-23-2005

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The central meaning of this song I feel can be best found in the lines:

"Cell block livestock
The bodies they're buying
Old South order
New northern horizon"

I believe this directly references to the increasingly popular practice of private corporations hiring prison labor to manufacture they're products or provide their services. Prison labor circumvents minimum wage laws. What results is effectively an 'outsourcing' of American jobs to prisons, which skirt a good deal of workplace regulations. Thus the presmise of this song being the desire of the (for want of a better word) corptocracy to get more people in jail wheras to increase the workforce.

Note: Corptocracy being the collective effort of the American government and Multi-National Corporations. The bond is referenced in the line: "Convictions fit the stock profile"

What the song is getting at is that this equates to modern day equivalent of slavery. This is the corporate (new northern horizon) version of (old south order) slavery. Poor people are disproportionately targetted by the judicial system, spend more time in jail, and get minute reward for their labor.

If you look at the song through the lens of modern day slavery, many lines that would otherwise seem nonsensical begin to gain meaning.

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E - DOuble
10-19-2005

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i dont think ur right there JujubeParade, he seems to exert a sort of sympathy to those beening opressed, and i dont believe that that prisoners are being oppressed.... also he calls for a revolution through viloence if nessisary from those being oppressed, that really doesnt fit with the prison system.

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aqueous1234
12-30-2005

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Best song on the album, and that's saying something

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Starship
02-11-2006

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the lines quoted by JujubeParade can be compared with a line in "Maria" in which RATM talks about "a new line of Mason Dixon." Saying that our line dividing the country into slave states and free states
has shifted to a new type of slavery in prison labor.

As always, this song is filled with little cultural references. RATM is very exact in this sense.

The line
"Tha spirit of jackson
now screams through the ruins..."
refers to George Jackson, a young african american sentenced to death. From prison he wrote letters which have been collected and later published.

Things like "privatizing through private eyes" when tied with the rest of the lyrics seems to mean that in the interest of capitalism and corporations´ greed, innocent people are imprisoned.

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Nolesy101
03-30-2006

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This song's un

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Nolesy101
03-30-2006

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This song's un

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leakeg
10-28-2006

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Old south order
New northorn horizon

Old south american views (slaverery parhaps - but I don't think he means literal slavery), but covered up by a facade in the 'new' north america.

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thomas3457
02-27-2007

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Okay everyone, "A fire in the masters house is set" refers to a tactic used by slaves or endentured servants to punish a cruel overseer or master. Arson was virtually impossible to prove or for that matter determine the source of, so therefore it was used to deal death to creul masters.

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mrguy6
04-29-2007

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i doubt zack's saying "as the wheat grows strong" it makes more sense as "as the weak grow strong"

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asmith88
06-29-2007

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Andrew Jackson was president around 1826 or so...during then was obviously the "south order" of slavery etc.

In the song it says "old south order new northern horizon" maybe not really going north but a different horizon as in corporations are enslaving the world.

Something tells me its possibly about NAFTA or the north american free trade agreement, and its rape of Latin America.

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gdawg31
01-04-2008

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this song is amazing the intro is one of the many badass rage intros like bulls on parade another BA rage song

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tinger99
02-26-2008

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The first time Zack says "as the weak grow strong", but what does he say the second time? It's something like "as they reach for the .....". Not sure what that last word is.

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Virindimaster
04-24-2008

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hungry people dont stay hungry for long , they get hope from fire and smoke as they reach for the dawn.

Violence in all hands embrace it if need be
living in warefare
uprise in the city

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Virindimaster
04-24-2008

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Ashes in the fall is better

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maxalotl
07-08-2008

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II think it's:

They get hope from fire and smoke,
As they reach for the door.

...Violence in our hands,
embrace it if need be.
Living in warefare,
I press it to CD

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maxalotl
07-08-2008

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"Old south order, new northern horizon" refers to the prison slavery being just like old days of slavery in the south, but today in the North

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NewNrthnHorizon
09-21-2009

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this is one of my favorite rage songs. and this song is where i got my username from.

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