This entire song is parallel to the Mark Antony speech in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. In it, Antony persudes the Romans (who, much like modern north-americans, had a prosperous empire) to turn against the conspirators. Alltough he cannot say it plainly, because he is standing right next to the traitors, he constantly hints to the immorality appreant in the unjustified murder of Caesar by Brutus. Much like Antony, Saul Williams and Zach De La Rocha wish to incite an uprising against the North American hegemonic powers, but they know that these powers will silence them if they speak to us in a manner that is too straightforward.

See also: The Life and Death of Julies Caesar, Act 3, Scene 2.