Kanwulf has said that he wrote this song as a memorial to the member of his family who were killed in the two World Wars.
Saying that he is the wolf and the lamb seems to me to be a metaphor for saying how he is a both a killer (because he is a soldier, and so he must kill), yet he is also a victim, both because of whoever eventually killed him, and because of the greater evil (the war) that he is a victim to.
Kanwulf has, in interviews, lamented the fact that virtually all German soldiers in WWII have been demonized, based largely on the actions of a relative few (namely the SS and Gestapo). Most of the German soldiers in WWII were just normal people (many of them were forced into service). Hell, I should know; some of my relatives served in the German army and navy during WWII; none of them were evil by any means.
Things like that would seem to be where stuff like "Call me now Judas or call me insane, I am what I am, I'm just a man" comes in; most of them were just human beings, not sociopaths or evil people.
Kanwulf has said that he wrote this song as a memorial to the member of his family who were killed in the two World Wars.
Saying that he is the wolf and the lamb seems to me to be a metaphor for saying how he is a both a killer (because he is a soldier, and so he must kill), yet he is also a victim, both because of whoever eventually killed him, and because of the greater evil (the war) that he is a victim to.
Kanwulf has, in interviews, lamented the fact that virtually all German soldiers in WWII have been demonized, based largely on the actions of a relative few (namely the SS and Gestapo). Most of the German soldiers in WWII were just normal people (many of them were forced into service). Hell, I should know; some of my relatives served in the German army and navy during WWII; none of them were evil by any means.
Things like that would seem to be where stuff like "Call me now Judas or call me insane, I am what I am, I'm just a man" comes in; most of them were just human beings, not sociopaths or evil people.