| Globus – Europa Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| This song is not glorifying those battles and wars at all like some seem to think. Blood and tears, killing spree, cruelest of atrocities, etc. are all negative descriptions of war. \n\nIt doesn\'t want us to forget those conflicts. It warns against fear (\'the mother of all battles\') and the coming of new wars. \n\nThere is a plea to rise above the violence of the past (\'Heaven help see love\', \'Find better days before us\', \'In kindness and spirit, lead us to a greater calling!\'). \n\nThe choir\'s French-sung part, which roughly translates to \'Before yesterday, let\'s be. Already tomorrow, we are enlightened.\' confirms this. \n\nEspecially the last line \'Never again!\' makes it clear the song wishes for a peaceful future for Europe, but it warns that peace is always threatened and that it shouldn\'t be taken for granted.\n\nImportant to remember here, and what some forget or conveniently ignore, is that they cite new crusades as a bad thing - crusades are perpetrated by Christians, so it speaks of bad deeds by different groups of people. \n\nSome commenters here have cherry picked the lines about islamic terrorists and the caliphate (islamic state) to brand this an islamophobic song. This point really makes no sense. Is being anti-nazi being anti-German? Can you not acknowledge that islamic terrorists are bad or even mention them without being branded racist?\n\nInsurgents, meaning violent people, not \'all immigrants\' as some are interpreting it are being imported to Europe: we know this and we have seen the results of it. Do you have to deny reality to be politically correct these days?\n\nTo make this point one has to convince themselves that the band lumps in everyone with the bad people they are citing, and that takes a huge amount of hypocrisy. These same people are not complaining when some group of white people from the past or present is called out on something, no, in that case they will probably tell you that white people should feel guilty for the deeds of their alleged ancestors or peers, but they will call doing the same to other groups (which one shouldn\'t either) a generalization (which it is). \n\nYou can\'t cherry pick what you choose to be outraged about and apply different morals based on skin colour (a racist thing to do), that\'s not a principled stance. | |
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