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Let's just start with the fact that this "song" is bad (I'll get to the lyrics later). But, it's almost unlistenable. No, I take that back, it is unlistenable. Crappy production, 3rd grade use of chord progression, and this guy's (keep it in the shower) voice. If I thought "Am I the Only One" was shit, there needs to be a new category to place this "gem" somewhere even lower. At the very least, Aaron Lewis sounds decent enough throughout most of the song. Nevermind the lyrics and you can get past the sound of Lewis at parts sounding like an old man passing last nights peanuts, it is a masterpiece compared to "RMNoR".

Now the lyrics. I've always thought "protest songs" should be a little more implied with symbolism and metaphor (example:"A Hard Rains Gonna Fall"). This "song" is nothing more than the bitching and moaning of a guy who suffers from "Dunning Krugerism" with statements so disjointed and so ignorantly misformed that I can only assume he graduated at the bottom of his home schooled class.

There are legitimate grips criticisms here but, aimed at the wrong target in almost every line of this hillbilly "government keep your hands off my Social Security" rant that it's almost beyong parody.

Where is the grievance with the coal companies that sent you into those hell holes? The very ones that cut you lose once injuried or striken with black lung without health insurance you turned to those evil "RMNoR"! Where's the self reflection that without the very "Rich Men" you condem, once the Mine closed down, made it possible to keep food on the table with those "undeserved" chocolate rounds checks coming in monthly and once you reach 65? Where the criticism of the mine owner who takes the corporate welfare and tax breaks? Those who sing the praises the free market that has created the very situation you're now calling bullshit?

I not going to do a line-by-line breakdown of this awful misguided diatribe. I think I made my point. But, the fact this song has apparently struck a chord with so many illustrates how ignorant so many are and how easily it is to con people!

This "song" is the musical equivalent of musical inbreeding for people who never leave the town they were born, never get to know people they haven't known since 3rd grade, and therefore, never doubt themselves or their righteous indignation.

The quote often attributed to Mark Twain, "It's Easier to Fool Someone Than Convince Them They've Been Fooled" couldn't be more applicable had he been specifically referencing this very song all those years ago.

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