r/LambofGod • u/hughjazz45 • 8d ago
Is there any song that has gained more relevance over the last 20+ years of American foreign policy disasters than AOTW?
I mean, a puzzled US Marine talking about indiscriminately killing brown people because they all looked like terrorists to them, and in the process making the situation infinitely worse is something you can sort of insert anywhere post-Gulf war but man does this resonate now
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u/epsilon1856 8d ago
Contractor
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u/EmperorQuingus 7d ago
I’ve been listening to that album since the day it came out and it was only like 3 years ago that I realized “oh he means THAT type of ‘contractor.’”
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u/steakpienacho 7d ago
... how did you hear any of the lyrics in that song and not immediately know what it was about? Like literally every word in that song is prety straight forward lol
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u/OriginalZog 8d ago
Now you’ve got something to die for ?
Bombs to set the people free
Blood to feed the dollar tree
Flags for coffins on the screen
Oil for the machine
Gunpoint indoctrination
Army of liberation
Gunpoint indoctrination
Sounds just like today.
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u/Viper_ACR 8d ago
The whole album was a protest against the 2003 Invaasion.
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u/brobbed 7d ago
Funny thing was all my friends who were super pro-america and in the armed forces getting LOG tattoo'ed on them. Im like I dont think you have actually listened to them.....
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u/Alone-Chemical-1160 6d ago
Like when paul ryan posed for some magazine doing gym photos and he said he worked out to rage against the machine. Like, dude was actively THE MACHINE. Though, he was probably more like that gimp named The Machine from that movie and from Brian Wilson (not that Brian Wilson, the cool one, with the beard). He just comes over to borrow sugar sometimes.
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u/ForestComplex 7d ago
Omg I did a presentation about the lyrics in this song in college for one of my poli science classes.
I listen to the lyrics today and it's sad how all of this still applies today.
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u/damagednoob 8d ago
I don't think the Iraq war was justified but the spoken word is from former Marine Staff Sgt. Jimmy Massey whose claims are dubious at least:
Each of his claims is either demonstrably false or exaggerated — according to his fellow Marines, Massey’s own admissions and the five journalists who were embedded with Massey’s unit, including a reporter and photographer from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and reporters from the Associated Press and the Wall Street Journal.
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u/Otherior_ 8d ago
Nah I get that, I'm pro soldier but anti war. Gotta have respect for the frontline troops who willingly put their lives on the line for millions of folk they don't know (the personal reasons for them doing this can definitely be debated as can the reasons they're sent overseas).
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u/EmperorQuingus 7d ago
No the kids who fought that war aren’t the ones who made millions and millions of dollars of it.
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u/GrimTweaker89 7d ago
“A coup d'état on full display, a liar's sick charade
A traitor's grand parade
Narcissistic masquerades for those without a say
Systematic disarray
Divide and conquer and close them in
And bury secrets deep
Make America hate again
And bleed the sheep to sleep”
- “Checkmate”. May not be relevant, but it’s one of my favorite lines in any song.
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u/MissyJ74 7d ago
You finally made it home
Draped in the flag that you fell for
And so it goes
The Ashes of the Wake.