Music as social reflection.

Music has always been a tool for reflecting on social circumstances, whether it be to defend civil rights, protest against wars or mearly to point how fickle and futile fashions and trends can be.

In my work I'm trying to find an architecture that benefits a community, a society, as well as individuals, there are an unlimited number of sources of information, music provides a different, emotive response.

Lyrics mean different things to different people, people will argue over their meanings, here I'll offer little comment on their meaning, instead I hope to gauge the opinion of others. My first offering is Rage Against The Machine's Sleep Now In The Fire:

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The world is my expense
The cost of my desire
Jesus blessed me with its future
And I protect it with fire
So raise your fists
And march around
Just dont take what you need
Ill jail and bury those committed
And smother the rest in greed
Crawl with me into tomorrow
Or Ill drag you to your grave
Im deep inside your children
Theyll betray you in my name

Sleep now in the fire

The lie is my expense
The scope of my desire
The party blessed me with its future
And I protect it with fire
I am the Nina The Pinta The Santa Maria
The noose and the rapist
The fields overseer
The agents of orange
The priests of Hiroshima
The cost of my desire
Sleep now in the fire

Sleep now in the fire

For its the end of history
Its caged and frozen still
There is no other pill to take
So swallow the one
That made you ill
The Nina The Pinta The Santa Maria
The noose and the rapist
The fields overseer
The agents of orange
The priests of Hiroshima
The cost of my desire
Sleep now in the fire

Does this suggest that corporate greed will consume us, that money always has and always will make the world go round?