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Thunderbolt Lyrics
Cerberus in the underworld
Guards the gates of hell
Protects the world of Hades
Where the dead must dwell
The gods look down in anger
On this wicked land
The battle of the Titans
Will be the final stand
Unleash the gods of war
Thunderbolt
Father of the sky
Thunderbolt
The gods have sent a sign
Zeus is in the heavens
Watching from the sky
The gods are on Olympus
Waiting for a sign
The Kraken rise below them
Titan of the sea
Calling for Poseidon
To set the chaos free
Unleash the gods of war
Thunderbolt
Father of the sky
Thunderbolt
The gods have sent a sign
Thunderbolt
Clashing from the sky
Thunderbolt
Hear the heavens cry
Heavens cry
Heavens cry
Master of the heavens
Ruler of the sky
Homer writes the Odyssey
About the gods on high
Ancient Greek mythology
Tells tales of spite and greed
The vanity that comes through power
Never should succeed
Unleash the gods of war
Thunderbolt
Father of the sky
Thunderbolt
The gods have sent a sign
Thunderbolt
Tearing past the sky
Thunderbolt
Hear the heavens cry
Guards the gates of hell
Protects the world of Hades
Where the dead must dwell
The gods look down in anger
On this wicked land
The battle of the Titans
Will be the final stand
Father of the sky
Thunderbolt
The gods have sent a sign
Watching from the sky
The gods are on Olympus
Waiting for a sign
The Kraken rise below them
Titan of the sea
Calling for Poseidon
To set the chaos free
Father of the sky
Thunderbolt
The gods have sent a sign
Thunderbolt
Clashing from the sky
Thunderbolt
Hear the heavens cry
Heavens cry
Ruler of the sky
Homer writes the Odyssey
About the gods on high
Ancient Greek mythology
Tells tales of spite and greed
The vanity that comes through power
Never should succeed
Father of the sky
Thunderbolt
The gods have sent a sign
Thunderbolt
Tearing past the sky
Thunderbolt
Hear the heavens cry
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This track is a depiction of the battle waged between the gods and Olympians in Greek mythology. "Zeus was very vain and used his power wrong," Saxon lead singer Biff Byford said in an interview. "People stopped worshipping the gods of Olympus because they were too vain basically. So, that's what it means: 'Vanity that comes through power.' I suppose a lot of dictators have gone that way as well in the past." While this is one of many Saxon songs that depict a battle of some kind, it isn't meant to be a take on politics, but Byford had hoped an antiwar message would come through. "A lot of the war lyrics that I write are basically saying that when governments go to war with other countries, it's the common people, the working-class people, who die for their inabilities to compromise or to negotiate things without a war," he expanded further. "Generally it's the common man that dies and it's always the families that lose their sons and daughters for the sake of a prime minister or a president or a dictator sending young men to war."