| Blind Guardian – Punishment Divine Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Parts of it make it sound like they might be talking about Charles Darwin. I do not regret A word I've said The strong will survive The weak must die Sounds like "Survival of the Fittest" to me. Darwin was devout his entire life as illustrated with Was I aware whom I has slain, I fear I was: The faceless The nameless The bush set afire He feared that he killed God by showing that rather than animals being destined to stay the shape that God gave them, they were mutable, destroying the concept that God made things as they must be. Nature's law instead of God in heaven Seems to back that up. Nature's law being evolution. I dunno if this is just exposition for it's sake by the band, but the angels singing about themselves not existing fits too. If God in His heaven isn't real, if he's just unseeable and unknowable, then the angels Darwin imagines telling him that they don't exist either. Lastly, consider, while his theory holds up to inquiry if you look at adaption specifically, Darwin's theories are also reviled as blasphemy. So perhaps "Set up the courtyard" could be speaking about a form of isolation, while not like Galileo's 'true' isolation in his house for the rest of his life, Darwin's theories, unlike Galileo's are a direct affront to the posibility of God's existance. Galileo was pardoned, and in many religeous people's minds Darwin will never be, though he was never officially censured. |
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| Blind Guardian – Age Of False Innocence Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| It is indeed. While both Copernicus and Galileo both held the same belief about the Crystal Spheres and the geocentric model of the earth, Copernicus had avoided bringing down the wrath of the church. I think the reason, personally is that Gallileo had something more to prove it, whereas Copernicus could've been making an easily dismissed theory, Galileo could show that things turned around other heavenly bodies in a way that is difficult to refute. | |
| Blind Guardian – Under The Ice Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I'm not sure precisely about some things in how it fits in, but both And Then There Was SIlence and this are both about The Trojan war. |
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| Blind Guardian – Sadly Sings Destiny Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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From some of the lines, it's clear it's from several points of view throughout the song. Firstly "I rent a room next door" "Shame on me, Shame on me, I'm a tool and nothing more" could be the un-named soldier that broke his side with the nail-ended spear. Another possibility, though it is doubtful because of the 'rent a room next door" line, that it was Pontus being used as a tool as well. Perhaps that's the intention. Pontus Pilate, that Centurion, and Judas were all tools in one way or another. |
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