This is about bronies. They communicate by stomping.
They speak of love and tolerance
They prey on people's ignorance
To make you all
Slaves of fear
They feed on your anxiety
To build their gent society
They kept you down for one thousand years
They nurture prejudice and hate
To them the wars that they create
In the name of one ample god
They gladly sacrifice your life
Increasing power is their price
Without regrets, they'll spill your blood
They're feeding you lies
With calculating smiles
With slaves made of the human mind
As long as you kneel to their authority
Religion, it's what makes you blind
They'll treat all you as mindless fools
They use you as obedient tools
It's time to set your spirit free
This world we cannot tolerate
It's time to seal all preachers fate
We looked ahead from Odin's grave
Your lives are a strain of egotistic chains
They've locked you up and thrown away the key
Your souls are for sale, and you're the ones who pay
But still, you'll never be set free
They're feeding you lies
With calculating smiles
With slaves made of the human mind
As long as you kneel to their authority
Religion, it's what makes you blind
They prey on people's ignorance
To make you all
Slaves of fear
They feed on your anxiety
To build their gent society
They kept you down for one thousand years
They nurture prejudice and hate
To them the wars that they create
In the name of one ample god
They gladly sacrifice your life
Increasing power is their price
Without regrets, they'll spill your blood
They're feeding you lies
With calculating smiles
With slaves made of the human mind
As long as you kneel to their authority
Religion, it's what makes you blind
They'll treat all you as mindless fools
They use you as obedient tools
It's time to set your spirit free
This world we cannot tolerate
It's time to seal all preachers fate
We looked ahead from Odin's grave
Your lives are a strain of egotistic chains
They've locked you up and thrown away the key
Your souls are for sale, and you're the ones who pay
But still, you'll never be set free
They're feeding you lies
With calculating smiles
With slaves made of the human mind
As long as you kneel to their authority
Religion, it's what makes you blind
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Slaves Of Fear Lyrics as written by Olavi Mikkonen Ted Oscar Lundstroem
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This song is obviously about how religion is total horsehit, and i agree 100% with this song. Amon Amarth is sheer awesome |,,/
All the judeo-christian religions are nothing more then branches from the same rotten tree and this is Johan's reflection of that.
So in many of their songs its cool to kill Christians for your own glory, but when they kick your ass its "evil".
This song is about Amon Amarth's hypocrisy.
@KingQuestion these other songs are about the Vikings, sung from their perspective. It's not like Amon Amarth wants to kill Christians, the vikings wanted to kill them and vice versa. Now this song is a little different. They sing this from their own perceptive and is about all religions in general.
OMG you guys,
You guys are focusing way too much on 2 lines out of 32. How can you honestly think the whole song is about religion when literally only 1/16 focuses on it.
I believe that this song is about the elites of our world and how their use fear to keep us from being free from the system that they have created. And yes religion is one part of the system, but only one part of a multi-faceted system.
Set your spirit free.
@nicholass6 I think majority of the lines deal with religion:<br /> <br /> The first nine lines are about religion (and a tied into religion by the tenth line).<br /> <br /> Then the following seven lines similarly are about religion and tied in by the eighth line.<br /> <br /> The next five similarly deal with religion ... you could argue the line about Odin isn't dealing with religion (or at least the religions they are targeting).<br /> <br /> Then the next eight lines are about religion and tied in with the last line.<br /> <br /> So actually all but 1 line is directly in reference to religion!
@sokorny<br /> <br /> That is a good point. And I definitely would say you have a valid argument. However, I guess this points to my whole argument as well. Generally people associate god with a religion, and rightly so. However, just because someone mentions god doesn't necessarily mean it is about religion. <br /> <br /> Also when was the last time the church sent people off to war? It has been a long time since the church has sponsored a war IE: The Crusades. For the last couple of centuries it has been the political elites and monarchs and other such figures that have sent people off to war. And those people also use religion as a tool to keep people "enslaved to the system" so they can send them off to war and increase their power.<br /> <br /> Also my last point: When I hear the phrase "gent society," and I swear I have heard the song a hundred times and I keep hearing dead society, I don't think of religion at all. Generally when I think about a "society" in reference to powerful people I think of the political and economic elite of our world colluding together to keep all of the power for themselves.<br /> <br /> If this song was created 500 years ago I would 100% agree that it is about religion and only religion. However, since there hasn't been a holy war since about the 1300's or so I argue that this song is more about the elite of the world using religion and other things as a way to keep people down.
@nicholass6 most of their music is based in the Viking Age (8th to 11th century) ... so hard to know if they are talking about religion in it's current guise or historical guise (the reference to Odin may suggest historical and kept you down for 1000 years .... Christianity is 2000 years old nowadays)
@sokorny<br /> <br /> Again a good point. And I'll come at it from a little bit different angle. They said "We looked ahead from Odin's grave." As far as I know the people of the Norse religion worshipped Odin as a living god with the legends telling of a time when Fenrir would come an slay him. So "Odin's grave" to me means the point at which the Norse religion died as a "major religion."<br /> <br /> Also Christianity wasn't really a big religion in the world until Charlemagne united all of Europe under Christianity and the holy roman empire around 800 A.D. Islam was by far more wide spread by the time of the Viking Age and directly proceeding it. <br /> <br /> So really you could interpret this as a completely historical song. Or you could interpret the 1000 years they talked about as ending around now or 2100. They did use the word "kept" signifying the past just to keep the record strait. Also I think that 1000 years they talked about is a reference to the stuff the Bible talked about in revelations. So you could even come at it from the direction that they reference the future as well in reference to the end times. However, for the Norse religion the "end times" so to speak already happened around 1000-1100 AD after most of the populations of Europe were converted to Christianity.<br /> <br /> Tough to say.
@sokorny
Again a good point. And I'll come at it from a little bit different angle. They said "We looked ahead from Odin's grave." As far as I know the people of the Norse religion worshipped Odin as a living god with the legends telling of a time when Fenrir would come an slay him. So "Odin's grave" to me means the point at which the Norse religion died as a "major religion."
Also Christianity wasn't really a big religion in the world until Charlemagne united all of Europe under Christianity and the holy roman empire around 800 A.D. Islam was by far more wide spread by the time of the Viking Age and directly proceeding it.
So really you could interpret this as a completely historical song. Or you could interpret the 1000 years they talked about as ending around now or 2100. They did use the word "kept" signifying the past just to keep the record strait. Also I think that 1000 years they talked about is a reference to the stuff the Bible talked about in revelations. So you could even come at it from the direction that they reference the future as well in reference to the end times. However, for the Norse religion the "end times" so to speak already happened around 1000-1100 AD after most of the populations of Europe were converted to Christianity.
Tough to say.