Crusader

On the title track, bassist Steve Dawson said that "In England, there's a paper called the Daily Express, and on the logo at the top of the paper, there's a crusader, and there was a car made by Ford called a Cortina Crusader. That's what started it off. We just liked the name "Crusader". We didn't have any connotations of what it meant as far as history goes, but we just liked the name "Crusader", so we just wrote the lyrics to fit the title, really." "It's what we used to learn at school," Biff Byford added "We used to read about the Crusades back in the day, Richard the Lionheart, and all these figures that obviously weren't as fantastic as people make out they are. It's a song written from a young boy's point of view, watching the knights and soldiers leave for a crusade, basically. And that's what it's about. It's a third-person song, and he wants to go with the knights and his father or his uncles who are going off to the crusade, and he can't because he's too young. That's the idea behind the song." The Saracen mentioned are the Muslims the Crusaders fought to take revenge. Biff Byford also stated he wasn't trying to make a religious statement in this song. "It's not anti-anybody or pro-anybody. It's just a boy watching the crusaders go off to war," he said. Growing up in England and learning its history, Byford learned of the violent struggle of its past. "England's history is full of wars and invasions. You know, the Romans, the Vikings. Our whole history revolves around combat, and I suppose as a boy when you read about war and the Crusades and the Vikings, it all seems to be good Boy Scout stuff. I suppose in reality, it was absolutely brutal and bloody, and billions of people died, but when you're a boy and you're listening and reading and watching these films, it's all a bit glorified and it's all a bit marching off to war."

He, he - it is about the good christians killing the bad muslims! i love the lyrics!