| Voltaire – Crusade Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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This song, to me, is about the clear danger that comes with blindly listening to things like organized religion, specifically Christianity. The character from the song is off to kill the dragon because it is described as "the scourge of christendom." They swear its eyes are red as flame and heard it rose up from hell itself. Its lair is the den of sin. This is everything he was told before killing the dragon. He walks in and kills the dragon only to see the baby dragon, clinging to its father. The church was wrong. The people were wrong about what the dragon was doing. He only sees it after its too late. The words of his father flash into his mind. He realized he didn't heed his warning and did not really know what he was doing. He was a blind follower, not a leader. He listened without questioning and it lead him to make mistakes he regrets. Time passes. His son is now off to war to fight the new scourge of christendom. Our character is now older, wiser, and perhaps not even a part of Christianity. His son is telling him the same things that he heard the church telling him when he was that age. He provides his son the same warning that his father provided him, implying that the son is about to go make the same mistakes that our lead character and his father presumably made. Obviously, as stated before, this can apply to the real world when it comes to listening to these institutions today that still influence the world. Blind followers will do anything, not even bothering to question its authenticity. |
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