Nickelback: Feed The Machine Meaning

Song Released: 2017

Feed The Machine Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Addressing those beneath from high above
Convincing his belief for what you love
Baiting every hook with filthy lies
Another charlatan to idolize

[Pre-Chorus 1]
Is this suppression just in my mind? (just in my mind?)
No more...

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   May 12th 2017 !⃝

   It's anti big government. Great song.

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   Nov 24th 2017 !⃝

   The song clearly is about following a person of high authority, and no one else has a say on it.
   They always lie, as they say "Baiting every hook, with filthy lies." Well its another person to worship, even though we should worship God instead. They do not let you ask any questions. It is all about the one in charge, and not the public. Peace Out!
   
   -Gabriel

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   Mar 10th 2017 !⃝

   Too be honest, it sounds anti-Trump/anti-Hillary/anti-corrupt leadership in general.
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   Mar 8th 2021 !⃝

   For me its about people of higher power. My dad is a “preacher” and this song relates to me so much. Just cause hes a preacher he can do no wrong. My “dad” has done some messed up shit in his life and always lies and put the blame on me and my sister and says we dont know what we are talking about or dont remember things right. My brother and his wife blindly follow my dad cause he sounds more believable. Hes a preacher so hes got to be right. Hes gaslighting them. But me and my sister see the truth so now we are the wrong ones. The get back in line lyric is what he always does when we speak up or out. He “preaches” about forgiveness or to forget. We ask questions and bring them up to other people and its always “get back in line”. i feel he puts up this image so people think hes not bad. This is how this song relates to me.
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   Feb 8th 2021 !⃝

   Cade Shanley, you couldn't be more wrong but you have proven that like most you take the obvious bate without a second thought "the piper blows his flute and off you go" the piper (the media) blows his flute (tells you what to believe) and off you go (and boy did you go, you totally ran all the way home with that false truth)
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   Feb 8th 2021 !⃝

   The song attacks those truly running the show, "the illuminated". Chad finally called out the black magic practitioners who run the world and youll notice there hasnt been a new album since. Punishment from above for speaking up from below. The next time you think you're free and you make your own decisions remember that the opposite is true.
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   Dec 30th 2018 !⃝

   The song is just anti authoritarian/totalitarian. It doesn’t attack either the left or the right. It’s intentionally vague so you can place your most hated politician (Trump, Clinton, Putin, whomever) in the role of the dictator.
   
   There also may be some shots taken at collectivist thinking, given the constant repitition of the phrase “Get back in line” every time the protagonist (who seems to be a part of the “machine”) seems to have an individual thought of their own, and the line “Harvesting you to feed the machine” could be a metaphor for “Dying to help your cause”.
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   Dec 16th 2018 !⃝

   I feel like its about the holocaust.
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   Feb 28th 2018 !⃝

   It isn’t a certain person. It’s straight up just a anti-government song.
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    Jan 14th 2018 !⃝

    It sounds like abuse of some sort!

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    Jan 13th 2018 !⃝

    It's sounds like it's about some form of abuse!

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    Jun 17th 2017 !⃝

    First off it's perfect for all you liberals blindly following corruption and attacking those who try to help. The hook describes all the globalist pushing their own agenda to further there cause not the people's. He asks himself if he's crazy and if this bs is all in his head because of how ludicrous the US has become. Then throws in the no more questions get back in line. It's the mentality of the left, if you ask questions they don't have answer and just try to demonize and destroy people with other beliefs (that's the "tolerant" left for you
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    Mar 14th 2017 !⃝

    Donald Trump ruining our great country as a presidental dictator and tyrant that only cares for himself and makes the American people his pawns and discard us when we don't have any use. Grind us up in our ashes to Feed The Machine.

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