KILLING IN THE NAME OF BY RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE

Killing in the name of!

Some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses

Some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses

Some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses

Some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses

Huh!

Killing in the name of!

Killing in the name of

And now you do what they told ya 

And now you do what they told ya

And now you do what they told ya

And now you do what they told ya

And now you do what they told ya

And now you do what they told ya

And now you do what they told ya

And now you do what they told ya

And now you do what they told ya

And now you do what they told ya

And now you do what they told ya

But now you do what they told ya

Well now you do what they told ya

Those who died are justified, for wearing the badge, they're the chosen whites

You justify those that died by wearing the badge, they're the chosen whites

Those who died are justified, for wearing the badge, they're the chosen whites

You justify those that died by wearing the badge, they're the chosen whites

Some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses

Some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses

Some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses

Some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses

Uggh!

Killing in the name of!

Killing in the name of

And now you do what they told ya

And now you do what they told ya

And now you do what they told ya

And now you do what they told ya

And now you do what they told ya, now you're under control

And now you do what they told ya, now you're under control

And now you do what they told ya, now you're under control

And now you do what they told ya, now you're under control

And now you do what they told ya, now you're under control

And now you do what they told ya, now you're under control

And now you do what they told ya, now you're under control

And now you do what they told ya!

Those who died are justified, for wearing the badge, they're the chosen whites

You justify those that died by wearing the badge, they're the chosen whites

Those who died are justified, for wearing the badge, they're the chosen whites

You justify those that died by wearing the badge, they're the chosen whites

Come on!

Yeah! Come on!

Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me

Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me

Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me

Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me

Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me

Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me

Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me

Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me

Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me!

Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me!

Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me!

Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me!

Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me!

Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me!

Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me!

Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me!

Motherfucker!

Uggh!

I advise anyone who is trying to figure out lyrics to listen half speed before jumping to conclusions. Another good trick is to watch some live video of the song and actually read their lips. Not always correct, as they sometimes change lyrics live, but useful. An example. The lyric is definitely "Some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses". Live, he sometimes says "Some of those that burn crosses, are the same that hold office". "Wearing the (also "a" and "you're") badge and you've chosen white". "Wearing a badge and you're clothed in white". 

My interpretation... be wary of authority. It can be immoral. Bigots can be anywhere. In political office, in the fire and police departments, schools, etc. Wearing a badge, of course, denotes authority (police, FBI, DEA, whatever). Clothed in white alludes to the cross-burning Ku Klux Klan. Chosen white is a metaphor for choosing the "good guys" or societal norms. Engaging in bigotry because you embrace the laws and rules which are inherently bigoted, without questioning their morality. The protagonist announces he can see through the deception. He's enlightened, and disagrees with the injustice he sees. He's going to play by his own rules.

this is RATM's best song. very catchy, different as well, but it's the type of song that you just want to jump around to. this song must be anti-white supremacist and even a counter attack on white supremacist groups, in other words, you've spread your hate and hurt so many people of many races, well you know what, how about have some of your own medicine, how do you like people singing i hate white racists and their stupid, pointless political propaganda? and it could also be saying that people who work in not just the government jobs, but in the community "helping" out and people who seem like family people were once supporters of white supremacists or even did worser criminal acts like burning crosses, churches and builidngs, murdering other races and that some people have gotten away with it. and with the "now they do what they told you, now you're under control", could mean you were or are being manipulated and taken advantage of, or that i feel sorry for you because you were brought up this way by your father, which many race haters have.

BATTLEFLAG BY LO FIDELITY ALLSTARS

Your construction

Smells of corruption

I manipulate to recreate

This air to ground saga

Gotta launder my karma 

I said hallelujah to the sixteen loyal fans

You'll get down on your mothafuckin' knees

And it's time for your sickness again

Come on and tell me what you need

Tell me what is making you bleed

We got two more minutes and 

We gonna cut to what you need

So one of six so tell me

One do you want to live

And one of seven tell me

Is it time for your mothafuckin' ass to give

Tell me is it time to get down on your mothafuckin' knees

Tell me is it time to get down 

I'm blown to the maxim

Two hemispheres battlin'

I'm blown to the maxim

Two hemispheres battlin'

Suckin' up, one last breath

Take a drag off of death 

Hey Mr. Policeman

Is it time for getting away

Is it time for driving down the mother fuckin' road

And running from your ass today

Now tell me if do you agree

Or tell me if I'm makin' you bleed 

I got a few more minutes and 

I'm gonna cut to what you need

So one of six so tell me

One do you want to live

And one of seven tell me

Is it time for your mothafuckin' ass to give

Tell me is it time to get down on your mothafuckin' knees

Tell me is it time to get down 

Got a revolution behind my eyes

We got to get up and organize

Got a revolution behind my eyes

We got to get up and organize

Got a revolution behind my eyes

We got to get up and organize

You want a revolution behind your eyes

We got to get up and organize 

Come on baby tell me 

Yes we aim to please

This is a hardcore anti-capitalism song.  The song calls for a revolution to overthrow this evil oligarchic capitalist system.  And we need a revolution as soon as possible.   Because the basic social rights of the working class can not be achieved without a fundamental reorganization of economic power and the redistribution of wealth within the United States. The realization of these rights requires a frontal assault on the hitherto unchallenged prerogatives of the corporations and the rich. The vast wealth created by the labor of generations of workers must be taken out of the hands of a privileged few and put at the disposal of the people as a whole. Workers will achieve nothing if they seek to avoid such a direct attack on the economic and political power of the capitalist class.

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IRIS BY LIVE. A SONG ABOUT RELYING ON OUR PRIVATE ARMIES OF WEIGHT-LIFTING AND BOOK-READING TO PROTECT OURSELVES AGAINST EVIL CAPITALISTS

I liked the way my hand looked 

On your head 

In the presence of my knuckles 

But the beauty of this vision alone 

Just like yesterday's sunset 

Has been perverted by the sentimental 

And mistaken for love 

The felix of your truth will always break it 

And the iris of your eye will always shake it 

And the armies the armies I have created 

Will always hate it 

Will always bait you on 

I liked the way my hand looked on your head 

In the presence of my struggle 

But the beauty of this vision alone 

I can't shake from my tree just yet 

It keeps invading all my private moments 

Listen to me now

THIS SONG IS ABOUT SOMEONE WHO WANTS TO ESTABLISH SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS BUT HE IS A MACHIAVELLIAN-REALIST AND AWARE OF THE DIABOLICAL NATURE OF ALL HUMANS. It is a song about the evil world we all are forced to live in, full of evil humans all around us. It's about someone who wants to establish social relationships, who wants to be in a relationship, but he is a scientific machiavellian-nietzschean realist and he is aware of the diabolical nature of all humans. And that's why he is constantly scared of getting hurt. I think that the "armies" are really a strong physical muscularity thru an aristocratic physical routine. Since the body is really our guard. And a book-reading routine of the greatest philosophers and masters. That represents a wall of protection that has been built not letting anyone in. Almost like this person is trying for love (bait you on) but will never get love because the wall is there and will "always hate it", being tied down. And even though he likes the idea of it, there is always something saying no.  Perhaps it is just how I interpret the chorus line about the armies...

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A SONG ABOUT MAYNARD JAMES KEENAN'S SON DEVON H. AND HOW ONLY SOCIALISM CAN LIBERATE CHILDREN FROM PARENTS-DICTATORSHIPS

What's coming through is alive.

What's holding up is a mirror.

But what's singing songs is a snake

Looking to turn this piss to wine.

They're both totally void of hate,

But killing me just the same.

The snake behind me hisses

What my damage could have been.

My blood before me begs me

Open up my heart again.

And I feel this coming over like a storm again.

Considerately.

Venomous voice, tempts me,

Drains me, bleeds me,

Leaves me cracked and empty.

Drags me down like some sweet gravity.

The snake behind me hisses

What my damage could have been.

My blood before me begs me

Open up my heart again.

And I feel this coming over like a storm again.

I am too connected to you to

Slip away, to fade away.

Days away I still feel you

Touching me, changing me,

And considerately killing me.

Without the skin,

Beneath the storm,

Under these tears

The walls came down.

And the snake is drowned and

As I look in his eyes,

My fear begins to fade

Recalling all of those times.

I could have cried then.

I should have cried then.

And as the walls come down and

As I look in your eyes

My fear begins to fade

Recalling all of the times

I have died

And will die.

It's all right.

I don't mind.

I am too connected to you to

Slip away, to fade away.

Days away I still feel you

Touching me, changing me,

And considerately killing me.

It's pretty obvious-- this song is about Maynard's son. He is tempted (by the snake, his father, with whom he had an abusive relationship) to distance himself from this child. He realizes, however, that his former relationship with his father is a thing of the past, and he has the opportunity to kill the tendencies he could have inherited from his father by opening his heart and being vulnerable in having a loving relationship with his child. Simple as that.

I also think that the song might have been different if Maynard had a daughter instead. 

this song is actually about Maynard's son, whose second name is “H”. But I think that's not exactly about the fear to replicate upon his own son the violence that he himself has suffered from his father.

I think that the lyric involves directly or indirectly 4 charachters:

Maynard : who is the center of an inner conflict.

The snake : Personification of Maynard's hate, rage, and revenge feelings for what he suffered when he was a child

Maynard's father 

Maynard's son.

Keeping these in mind, all we have to do is understand sentence by sentence whom the song is referring to.

>>> “What's coming through is alive. What's holding up is a mirror.”

Maynard's son lead Maynard to look at himself and think again about his sad childhood.

>>> “But what's singing songs is a snake. Looking to turn my piss to wine.”

The snake is the temptation to indulge in hate and resentment, making them look like pleasant feelings (piss to wine).

>>> “They're both totally void of hate, But killing me just the same.”

That's referred to the snake and the father.

>>> The snake behind me hisses What my damage could have done. “

That's ambiguois. I think the “damage” could be the mark of the father on Maynard, the fact that his personality changed in worst because he became full of hate, resentment, etc.

>>> My blood before me begs me Open up my heart again.

But his inner voice (me) and his son (my blood) beg him to not let his father, the hate and resentment win, but to open his heart instead.

>>> And I feel this coming over like a storm again. Considerately.

All the fear, inner conflicts, rage, etc. that he experienced in the past as his father came to beat him are happening once again in his mind.

>>> Venomous voice, tempts me, Drains me, bleeds me. Leaves me cracked and empty. Drags me down like some sweet gravity.

As above the snake is the temptation to indulge in anger and bad feelings instead of fighting them.

>>> I am too connected to you. To slip away, fade away. Days away I still feel you. Touching me, changing me. Considerately killing me.

That's the climax of the inner fight: Maynard is scared that the past hurted him to deeply and too much, so that's impossible for him to change, to forget.

>>> Without the skin here, Beneath the storm. Under these tears now, The walls came down. And as the snake is drowned And as I look in his eyes, My fear begins to fade Recalling all of those times. I could have cried then. I should have cried then. (…) I have died and will die. It's all right. (I don't mind)

At the end Maynard won the fight, he is reborn: all the anger that surrond him like walls are gone, the snake that tempted him is gone. He look in his son's eyes in order to find the strenght to change and let the good feelings win. But even if he won this fight he can't erase what happened: he still recall those days, he still remember all the bad feelings he had to hide, all the time he wanted to cry, all the time that he died inside. And every time he will remember what happened he will die inside once again.

After all this song is pretty similar to “Reflection”: both describes an inner fight against bad feelings (anger and resentment / selfishness and sloth), and both ends up with the win of the good side of the soul. (“And as I pull my head out I am without one doubt. Don't wanna be down here feeding my narcissism” / “Without the skin here, Beneath the storm. Under these tears now, The walls came down. And as the snake is drowned And as I look in his eyes, My fear begins to fade”)

Well and you know this world it is full of opressive governments, abusive concentration of wealth and power in a few, and the police fascism against people. I think that the oligarchic dictatorial governments that the world has had for the last 3000 years has an impact on the family dictatorship at home of parents verbally and morally abusing their children. So in this case parents are like the oppressive governments and the children are the working class. However I want to say something related to this, i admit that I have had many verbal fights with my father, and my father has had sometimes an oppressive dictatorial way of treating me and my brothers and sisters. But I think that this is ingrained in the capitalist system.

I think that the only solution for this is a mental, spiritual, socialist, christian revolution in this world(Not the Republican Party type of christianity), i mean the liberating socialist-christianity.

And many simplistic people in this world are very wrong in blaming all their personal failures in life on Obama and the capitalist ruling class. But the dictatorial abusive parenting is also to blame. However that dictatorial way of treating children is really rooted in the capitalist oligarchic dictatorial political system we have in USA and in many many other nations.

Only a political revolution toward workers socialism can be a solution for this male-supremacist system and dictatorial system of abusive parents, abusive husbands, abusive teachers, abusive institutions etc.

thanks 

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HUMMER BY SMASHING PUMPKINS

Faith lies in

The ways of sin

I chased the charmed

But I don't want them anymore

And in their eyes I was alive

A fool's disguise

Take me away from you

Shame my tongue

Fat with promise all along

But when I woke up from that sleep

I was happier than I'd ever been

When you decide

That your life is a prize

Renew and revive

It's alright honey

It's alright, yeah

Happiness will make you wonder

Will I feel OK?

It scares the disenchanted

Far away

Yeah I want something new

But what am I supposed to do about you

Yeah I love you, it's true

Life's a bummer

When you're a hummer

Life's a drag

Ask yourself a question

Anyone but me

I ain't free

Ask yourself a question

Anyone but me

I ain't free

Do you feel 

Love is real?

happiness isn't really about all those people who always have a smile on there face all perky and shit. maybe real happiness is in the moment when your miserable and you see someone you love that makes you feel better even for that small moment. and mayb thats sorta wat this song is on about. you think, i mite be depressed but you can live for those small moments of real happiness. like the line "happiness will make you wonder", (the best line of the song) says if you've been 'happy' for a long time it makes you question whether or not it's real and how long it will last but if it's just that small moment that comes and goes you know it's real. 

this song is about when he ran into writers block. i read a story he was sitting on the floor in the airport, and to conquer the writers block, he wrote a song about writers block. "unchain my tongue, so fat with promise" this is the song that made me a smashing pumpkins fan, and they are still my favorite band. 

AMERICAN CHILDREN SHOULD LEARN ABOUT CHE GUEVARA AND SHOULD IMITATE FROM YOUNG AGE CHE GUEVARA

Aprendimos a quererte, 

Desde la historica altura, 

Donde el sol de tu bravura 

Le puso cerco a la muerte. 

Aqui se queda la clara, 

La entranable transparencia 

De tu querida presencia, 

Comandante Che Guevara. 

Vienes quemando la brisa 

con soles de primavera 

para plantar la bandera 

con la luz de tu sonrisa 

Aqui se queda la clara, 

La entranable transparencia 

De tu querida presencia, 

Comandante Che Guevara. 

Tu amor revolucionario 

te conduce a nueva empresa, 

donde espera la firmeza 

de tu brazo libertario. 

Aqui se queda la clara, 

La entranable transparencia 

De tu querida presencia, 

Comandante Che Guevara. 

Aqui se queda la clara, 

La entranable transparencia 

De tu querida presencia, 

Comandante Che Guevara. 

Seguiremos adelante 

como junto a ti seguimos 

y con Fidel te decimos : 

"¡Hasta siempre Comandante!" 

Aqui se queda la clara, 

La entranable transparencia 

De tu querida presencia, 

Comandante Che Guevara. 

Aqui se queda la clara, 

La entranable transparencia 

De tu querida presencia, 

Comandante Che Guevara.

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WELCOME TO THE FOLD BY FILTER

You take my money

You take your drink

You think it's funny

And I hit your face

You got your jesus

And I got my space

You got your reasons

And I got my case

Just got to sit your self down

To contemplate

Get yourself a nice cold beer

And drink yourself away

Celebrate to nothing

You feel a-okay

You celebrate to nothing

To feel - A-okay 

You think you're precious

I think you're shit

I kill father

Destroy his seed

I'm nothing rolled over

Destroy your dream 

Just got to sit your self down

To contemplate

Get yourself a nice cold beer

And drink yourself away

You celebrate to nothing

You feel a-okay

You celebrate to nothing

To feel - A-okay 

Now when you break yourself down

Go this place

You give yourself no reason

To get off your case

And when you break it down again

Seen through this shit

You give yourself no reason

To live, through this 

Mama give, me my medicine

Mama give me my medicine

Mama give me my medicine

The one that makes me feel taller

Mama give me my medicine

Mama give me my medicine,

The one that makes me feel so tall, tall

like a tall tree

Mama give me my medicine

That make me feel like a tall tree

Mama give me my medicine

That make me feel like a tall tree

Mama give me my medicine

That make me feel like a tall tree 

You celebrate to nothing

You feel a-okay

You celebrate to nothing

And you, feel - a-okay

The first verses of this song seem to be lashing out at somebody, just hating them, and encouraging them to become an alcoholic. The line "You got your Jesus and I got my space, you got your reasons and I got my case" is similar to some of the lyrics from Dose. The lyrics then seem to detail the person having a mental breakdown, and becoming addicted to a drug of some kind. 

I think there's a very sarcastic tone governing the chorus. He's not really propogating drinkiking, he's saying that it's a waste to be drinking to try and ignore inner problems.  Then he relates this to the way we just take a pill to bury ourselves of our problems, instead of dealing with them (give me my medecine)!  Ultimately, I think he is talking to himself, arguing with another part of himself.  the second line is supposed to be 'And think you're great". It does have similarities to Dose, and I think it's Richard attacking religion, and saying it offers as much comfort (and side effects) as alcoholism. 

Apparently, this song is lashing out against a girl who attempted to sue Richard Patrick for hitting her in the head with a water bottle at a Filter concert after he threw it into the crowd from the stage - hence, "You take my money, you think you're great . . . But nothing will ever destroy your greed." 

"You've got your Jesus

And I've got my space"

to me this seems like a contrast between religion and science

I think this whole song is about not thinking for yourself,people that go along with societies rules without ever asking why? Religious people are a perfect example of believing in something without knowing why, science is the quest for knowlege.

"You get yourself

A nice cold beer

And drink yourself away

You're celebrating nothing"

an example of typical mindless behavior

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