Rock lyrics analysis

"Slave screams he's being beat into submission"

I believe this is Trent commenting on the "slave's condition. Like, he was hurting himself, or wanting to, because he couldn't have her.

"Slave screams he spends his life learning conformity"

We return to Reznor discussing the slave once more.

"Want to make it understood, wanting though I never would"

Saying that he might want to hurt himself sometimes, but he never would. He realizes that he does not matter.

"Someone tried to tell me, don't let the world bring you down"

Sounds like someone's advice to him

"Nothing will do me in before I do myself, so save it for your own and the ones you can help"

He's knows nothing can really hurt him, but himself so he thinks the advice is useless to him. k me at all"

Once again, sounds like suicide. After the first appearance of the furious chorus, the second verse tells us in vague words about the neutralization of a group not identified, therefore labeled neutral.

"I've given everything I could, to blow it to hell and gone, Burrow down in and blow up the outside world"

Pretty much saying that he's done everything he can think of to hurt himself and they are not working so he just wants to be alone. They set your hours, they tell you where to be and when to be there.