Rage Against the Machine - Sleep in Fire?!


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Rage Against the Machine - Sleep in Fire?

whats the story behind this, I know they played on wall st.


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The song contains lyrics about greed, such as the conquest of Native Americans and U.S. Slavery in the 1800s as well as criticism of actions taken by the US government in wartime, including the bombing of Hiroshima and the use of Agent Orange in the Vietnam War. At the end of the song, there is some sound from a Korean radio station that guitarist Tom Morello picked up on his amp.

The music video for the song was directed by Michael Moore and featured the band playing in front of the New York Stock Exchange, along with scenes from a mock-up of the popular television game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire which is satirically named "Who Wants to Be Filthy ******* Rich". During the filming of the video, Moore was detained by police for an hour, and the NYSE closed its doors during mid-day trading because of the crowds that gathered to watch the filming. Quoted at the end of the song is Republican politician Gary Bauer stating that, "a band called 'The Machine Rages On' - er - 'Rage Against the Machine', that band is anti-family and it's pro-terrorist," following an incident outside of fellow Republican Alan Keyes' 2000 primary campaign town hall event, where Keyes jumped into a mosh pit that was playing the music of Rage Against the Machine.[1] There is briefly at the end of the music video, possibly a single frame where a difficult-to-identify figure emerges. Actor Garrett Wang is briefly seen in the video enjoying the music.

The video was nominated at the MTV Video Music Awards for Best Rock Video but lost to Limp Bizkit's "Break Stuff".


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