A system (from Latin systēma, in turn from Greek σύστημα systēma, "whole compounded of several parts or members, system", literary "composition") is a set of interacting or interdependent components forming an integrated whole.
A system is a set of elements (often called 'components' ) and relationships which are different from relationships of the set or its elements to other elements or sets.
Fields that study the general properties of systems include systems theory, cybernetics, dynamical systems, thermodynamics and complex systems. They investigate the abstract properties of systems' matter and organization, looking for concepts and principles that are independent of domain, substance, type, or temporal scale.
Most systems share common characteristics, including:
The term system may also refer to a set of rules that governs structure and/or behavior.
The word system in its meaning here, has a long history which can be traced back to Plato (Philebus), Aristotle (Politics) and Euclid (Elements). It had meant "total", "crowd" or "union" in even more ancient times, as it derives from the verb sunìstemi, uniting, putting together.
System of a Down, also known by the acronym SOAD and often shortened to System, is a rock band from Southern California, formed in 1994. It consists of Serj Tankian (lead vocals, keyboards, rhythm guitar), Daron Malakian (guitar, vocals), Shavo Odadjian (bass, background vocals) and John Dolmayan (drums).
The band achieved commercial success with the release of five studio albums; from which three debuted at number one on the Billboard 200. System of a Down has been nominated for four Grammy Awards, and won the award in 2006 for Best Hard Rock Performance for the song "B.Y.O.B.". The group went on hiatus in August 2006, but reunited in November 2010, embarking on a worldwide tour in 2011.
Serj Tankian, Daron Malakian, and Shavo Odadjian all attended Rose and Alex Pilibos Armenian School while children, although because of their eight-year age difference they did not meet until 1992 while working on separate projects at the same recording studio. They formed a band named Soil with Tankian on vocals and keyboards, Malakian on vocals and guitar, Dave Hakopyan (who later played in The Apex Theory/Mt. Helium) on bass and Domingo "Dingo" Laranio on drums. The band hired Shavo Odadjian (another Rose and Alex Pilibos alumnus) as manager, although he eventually joined Soil as rhythm guitarist. After three years, only one live show, and one jam session recording, Hakopyan and Laranio quit the band, feeling that it was not going anywhere.
There's a war, there's a clash of sorts
Dead ahead
It's foreign but it's real
Knock, knock, knock
There it sits taxing every move
Your world son
So either get your gun or clean theirs
With the neck of your ego on the chopping block
Sugar memories bring you back to a time when
Your loudest care was a high chair
Not a number or a name for you to make
This is it 'cause luck moved out last week
No more camp
So shine your saber well
Before you kill a panzer tank with it
Like you told everyone you would
Good bye
Bend and spread or be dead with no history
So live for the luxuries
i have a bass - amplifier
its name is hartke
its second name is systems
so if you expected
political lyrics
i have to disappoint you
200 watts
perfect sound
its volume is from zero to ten
but little bit over one is enough
you can hear very well
and sound is still clean without any distortion
200 watts
Systems were made to rule
Systems were made to divide and abuse you
Systems were made to rule
Working for the system
You can't earn no living and unemployment
A sky scrapers keep rising
What's the use you wait no more
Ohh no no...
Rastafari the law
Don't you know?
Systems were made to rule
Systems were made to divide and abuse you
Systems were made to rule
Don't waste your time or your energy
Working for babylon over night crimes
You pay your penalty
To die for exaltation
But now they are running out of luck
It's a pleasant on her gloves
Don't you know?
Systems were made to rule
Systems were made to divide and abuse you
Systems were made to rule
Say they war every single day
They build nuclear weapons
[Mass destruction]
Ohh no no... for what we don't know?
It's not a world conflict
For what we don't know
It's not a world conflict
Systems were made to rule
Systems were made to divide and abuse you
Systems were made to rule
[Oh Systems]
Law law law enforcement
General penitentiaries
What they do
They ride in the people continually
Systems were made to rule
Systems were made to divide and abuse you
Systems were made to rule
Systems were made...
[Systems were made]
To divide and conquer
[Systems were made]