Fanfare For The Conscious Man

"Now prudence of wars are a redemptive cause" Should be "Now pre-emptive wars are a redemptive cause"

"Each nation used to provide its country with security with factories providing arms for their country Now multinational companies compete in the arms trade to serve any customer, maximising the money to be made"

ES lamenting the course of development each nation has taken, namely that nations used to make enough arms to provide its citizens with security and defense, but now with the corporatisation of arms production, capitalism has drastically shifted the nature of the world, with the richest now able to buy great power...

"National warehouses compete to provide arms around the world to aid death and all hell unfolds."

...and when the powerful aquire the means to become more powerful, it doesn't take long for the world to be ravaged by war.

"Our gracious queen should grasp her crown and take a good fucking swing at Blair and Brown for leading her countries to illegal warfare and trying to pass it off that we're doing 'cause we care.

Now pre-emptive of wars are a redemptive cause I've never heard such nonsense under international laws We think we have the right to enforce democracy when we're weakening ours everyday What hypocrisy."

Obviously criticising British Foreign Policy, namely the invasion and occupation of foreign nations under the guise of "stabilisation" or "democracy", the Iraq war being the most recent of a long list of examples. Also criticises Domestic policy where democracy has become a sick joke in the U.K, the U.S.A and Australia, and how our own governments have been slowly stripping their citizens of their rights while actively ignoring popular demand and passing unpopular legislation without any consent from the people. The Patriot Act, the U.S.A's treatment of Julian Assange and the recent T.S.A airport security policy that involves Full Body Scans and enhanced patdowns (hand can actually go inside the underpants) are all good examples of this.

I can't take photos around certain areas of my home city anymore without being asked to delete the photos and move on. This is all under the guise of "National Security" that the 9/11 attacks made the perfect vehicle for the systematic removal of our rights.

"Fuck man I just woke up to a land where killing is part of every day and every mind in this intelligent species is then blinded into the battlefield"

Taking about how he "woke up" (an expression used to describe the moment when awareness of world events and particularly, the problems and flaws within our Government and society) and realised all of the injustice that's happening and has been happening around the world. Particularly the fact that the incredible potential of the human mind and its intelligence is being deliberately misled by Government propaganda and tricked into going into the battlefield to fight an injust war, by persuading the brave and valiant men and women of our Nations that such a war is a good thing and that they have moral justification for invading another country and killing hundreds of thousands of civilians to establish a "democracy" (meanwhile foreign military occupation continues while corporations are allowed to buy the natural resources of the country and anybody who tries to combat the invasion of their country is labelled a "terrorist"). The whole WMD excuse for the invasion of Iraq is the perfect example of this.

"like it's natural for us to break instead of build"

This line really expresses the pain felt at seeing the human race use its incredible potential and gift of intelligence to kill each other rather than build a better world.

"Unity's(correction made)intrinsic the only cause worth fighting for, all religions, colours and creeds"

Describes how it is in our nature to unify and exist peacefully with one another, and that the establishment and preservation of this peaceful unity across the world is the only thing that justifies war.

The rest of the song is a protest cry/chant. Incredible end to a fucking incredible album.

Couple of corrections:

"Each nation used to proveid its country with security"

"Our gracious queen, should grasp her crown"

Amazing ending for an amazing album.

cant stop listening to this song :D

meaning? i saw a track by track video of this album and i think rou said something along the lines of that its one last cry of frustration against politics after a hard year

This is going to be monumental live. I can't wait for Reading to hear some of the new stuff

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stop trying to figure it out

real lyrics:

entershikari.com/music.htm

obviously this song is about the guys of enter shikari being very unhappy with the english government and also the international political situation a lot of people might absolutely agree with what enter shikari tell in that song i think this song is a call to their fans and the people all over the world to unite and to give their opinion the the situation because then they'll be able to change something

The song meaning is in the lyrics! It's about Britain going into illegal warfare (i.e: Iraq war).