Crusade

As the description on the Projekt site says, "a poignant anti-war message from a father to his son", and quite a touching one at that. Another great song from V.

There are definitely some errors in these lyrics. Besides the many punctuation gaffes, here are the wording mistakes that I noticed:

• Their breath is fire, their tongues are FORKED • "Son, know your enemy," as I HELD my son • And says, "DAD, let them come."

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.

I believe the lyric is "Their tongues are -forked-", not Forged.

What i find interesting, is that Voltaire says that his father said "Son know your enemy, as I know my son" and then he goes off and slays the dragon anyway, showing that maybe his father didn't know him. When he then goes on to talk about his son he says the same thing basically. Perhaps he's saying that with his family, the fathers don't know there children

I believe this song means to say, before you kill anything, make sure you know its intentions, and to never kill something simply for its difference.