Rise Against – Grammatizator

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  General Comment:The song is based on a short story called "The Great Automatic Grammatizator," by Roald Dahl. The story is about a guy who builds a machine that writes perfect stories, putting authors out of work. This song actually has a bunch of lines from the short story in it, example being "God grant me the strength to let my children starve."

  Flag WillCrearyon November 22, 2009   Link

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    If thats true i think the song is about how no one is doing anything original or creative anymore. The ones that are are being ignored "God grant me the strength to let my children starve" Since he refuses to follow what everyone else is doing he is being ignored and he isn't making money. It's like movies now a days, they're all remakes or the same formula being repeated. Every one is "contemplating contracts of gold". They'd rather have the money that be creative.

    Flag tlaze7on September 30, 2011  
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  General Comment:I can't seem to figure out the meaning of this one. It does seem pretty political though.
  
  We celebrate the downfall
  with ticker tape parades
  Oblivious to the fucking mess left lying in the wake
  
  I think this talks about how we celebrate Bush no longer being president of the US, but we don't realize that Obama isn't going to magically solve all our problems and we don't see the real issues going on.
  
  "God grant me the strength to let my children starve"
  He whispered to the dripping roof
  into the candled dark
  
  This is a parent (probably, could be anyone really) who realizes how bad the situation in America is and is praying in his beat up house.
  
  Contemplate contracts of gold
  Just wave your hand and relinquish control
  
  This sounds like selling out and giving up control of your life. Not sure how this fits in with the rest of the song, but yeah. Like I said before, I'm not entirely sure what this song is about, so that's kind of all I got so far.

  Flag OmegaHunter24on July 27, 2009   Link

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  General Comment:Amazing song with a very strong political message :)

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