I think what attracted the shooters to this song was the meaning that I always got from it. It's a song about being a lone wolf, a mechanism for change in the world. A heroic individual if you will, in the Romantic sense. An individual who is at odds with the society around him, and his greatest struggle is to transcend those boundaries which are made by the moral code. Once these are transcended, the hero also transcends himself and thus is in a way divine. Change throughout history has not come through the consensus of the crowd, but from timeless individuals who sacrifice their personal comfort for a higher calling. Do not confuse higher calling with some dogmatized Christian concept. It doesn't have to be religious at all, but such a thing is very spiritual.
I think what attracted the shooters to this song was the meaning that I always got from it. It's a song about being a lone wolf, a mechanism for change in the world. A heroic individual if you will, in the Romantic sense. An individual who is at odds with the society around him, and his greatest struggle is to transcend those boundaries which are made by the moral code. Once these are transcended, the hero also transcends himself and thus is in a way divine. Change throughout history has not come through the consensus of the crowd, but from timeless individuals who sacrifice their personal comfort for a higher calling. Do not confuse higher calling with some dogmatized Christian concept. It doesn't have to be religious at all, but such a thing is very spiritual.