Trigger Happy
Revolt Resonance: Unveiling the Message in Rumbletramp's Trigger Happy
Lyrics
Trigger happy psychopaths quick to kick your door down
Highlighting aggressive actions of psychopaths ready to forcefully enter homes.
A pretense of protection to legitimize their violence
Describing a false claim of protection used to justify violent actions.
Keep you desperate, penniless and locked in your routine
Indicating a strategy to keep people in a state of desperation and poverty, maintaining a predictable routine.
Keep the empty pockets empty and the deepest pockets deep
Emphasizing the intentional maintenance of economic disparities between the rich and the poor.
They monopolized survival when they privatized the world
Connecting survival to the privatization of the world, suggesting control by a select few.
And in the name of lady liberty filled prisons with the poor
Criticizing the imprisonment of the poor under the guise of liberty.
Keep the underclasses servile and the vagrants off the street
Advocating for keeping the lower classes subservient and removing vagrants from public spaces.
A paltry price to pay to keep the upper class's peace
Implying that maintaining the peace of the upper class comes at the expense of the underprivileged.
But growing numb ain't growing up, so we'll get dead or we'll get tough
Stressing the importance of resistance and resilience in the face of oppression.
Find or make the things we need; we'll grow some food, we'll steal some things
Expressing the need to find or create essential resources through unconventional means.
And if that ain't enough we'll get persistent we'll get rough
Emphasizing persistence and toughness when faced with challenges.
Raise the stakes, reclaim the streets to build a home for you and me
Advocating for reclaiming public spaces to create a better life for everyone.
The state's a gruesome beast and it lies through gruesome teeth:
Characterizing the state as a deceitful and monstrous entity.
For the people, by the people; not the people that it eats
Questioning the state's claim to represent the people, highlighting its consumption of rebellious individuals.
For on its breath hangs heavy wretched stench of rotten rebel meat
Describing the gruesome nature of the state with imagery of rotten rebel meat.
A river's worth of blood to grease the gears of the machine
Suggesting a significant human cost to keep the state machinery functioning.
And its teeth make gruesome bars that stretch cold for miles and miles
Visualizing the state's control as extensive and imprisoning, using gruesome metaphors.
Gaps filled thick with flesh of those that dare defy its power
Highlighting the state's repression of dissenters and those challenging its authority.
A continent of cages toil in shackles yet unfree
Depicting a population toiling in figurative cages, emphasizing lack of freedom despite apparent progress.
Another chapter in this country's age of slavery
Referring to the current state as an era resembling historical slavery.
But growing numb ain't growing up, so for the lost we must stay tough
Reiterating the theme of resilience and resistance in the face of numbness or complacency.
Find or make the things we need; we'll grow some food, we'll steal some things
Reaffirming the need to find or create essentials and the readiness to adopt unconventional methods.
And if that ain't enough we'll get persistent we'll get rough
Emphasizing persistence and toughness in the pursuit of a better life.
Burn whatever's in our way to build a home for you and me
Advocating for removing obstacles, even forcefully, to build a home for everyone.
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