Rage Against the Machine - Bulls On Parade Lyrics Meaning

May 2024 · 2 minute read
anonymous

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Sep 15th 2008 !⃝

Most of you have certain aspects of interpretation however it involves a bigger picture and cannot neccessarily be interpreted as a only one meaning. The song mensions many aspects of the evil of our system (that of the United States and other Western powers). The fact that we are aggressively attacking "terrorism"(defined by the american government as the attacking of innocent people "BY THE ENEMY" for a specific ideological or political purpose) and destroy entire countries are for several reasons. Many people think that the main reason is to provide more money to buisinesses either by oil, weaponry, or reconstruction contracts. Here the line, Terror rains drenchin, quenchin the thirst of the power dons is important. Either way you interpret it whether it is us doing the terrorism or the enemy (whether we both do it is a fact and not conspiracy or anything, you just have to dust off the surface, by our means it is called state terrorism), there are powerful people in the buisiness world that do infact make money off these wars and they need it because they are consumed in greed.

Although this is true, another more principle reason is also to provide fear to any other country or movement willing to defy the American government/military power, thus keeping them in line. Here is where the line Rally round the family, with a pocket full of shells is important. The United States attempts to use its massive military infrastructure to install its own world order and is successful in may occurrences, their failures are usually erased from history, "they don't gotta burn the books they just remove em". They often block sanctions which help bring in humanitarian aid to countries in their operations to further destroy the hopes of the people, the system that does this sounds similar to the lines "weapons not food, not homes, not shoes, just feed the war cannibal animal.

The song is open for a variety of interpretation but this one has the most meaning for me. The world has to stand up to these oppressive regimes such as our own by increasing the voice and opinions of the world population. This isn't the middle ages anymore, and we now have the information to see what is really going on. These people responsible should be tried the same way the Nazis were at Nuremberg, for they are responsible for the same war crimes.

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