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


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Slaves Of Fear Lyrics as written by Olavi Mikkonen Ted Oscar Lundstroem

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    General Comment

    This song is obviously about how religion is total horsehit, and i agree 100% with this song. Amon Amarth is sheer awesome |,,/

    Badgerholocauston July 21, 2011   Link
  • 0
    My Opinion

    All the judeo-christian religions are nothing more then branches from the same rotten tree and this is Johan's reflection of that.

    vonsson August 13, 2013   Link
  • 0
    Song Meaning

    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.

    KingQuestionon February 19, 2014   Link
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    My Interpretation

    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.

    nicholass6on May 17, 2017   Link
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    General Comment

    @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.

    nicholass6on May 18, 2017   Link

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