One thing I see people not mentioning, or somehow I have missed being mentioned, is the chorus itself.
"Don't feed the people, but we feed the machines."
That this was true back when the song was written and is more prevalent today, is truly frightening.
We serve that which is supposed to serve us. Corporations receiving benefits that other's don't even have the option to die for. Greedy closed-minded people who care nothing for anything outside of their immediate world, waving their own 'flags' on capital hill in the hands of lobbyists.
They send our children to die for them and keep us myopic and afraid of anything outside of ourselves so that we'll never question them.
This is a protest song as much as anything else. It is an anthem against the machine as much as anything Rage had ever created.
One thing I see people not mentioning, or somehow I have missed being mentioned, is the chorus itself.
"Don't feed the people, but we feed the machines."
That this was true back when the song was written and is more prevalent today, is truly frightening.
We serve that which is supposed to serve us. Corporations receiving benefits that other's don't even have the option to die for. Greedy closed-minded people who care nothing for anything outside of their immediate world, waving their own 'flags' on capital hill in the hands of lobbyists.
They send our children to die for them and keep us myopic and afraid of anything outside of ourselves so that we'll never question them.
This is a protest song as much as anything else. It is an anthem against the machine as much as anything Rage had ever created.