The way that this song goes with "Waiting for the Worms" makes me think that it is about a Nazi soldier or official waiting in his cell to face "The Trial". "I wanna go home, take off this uniform and leave the show" makes me think of a former Nazi awaiting trial and realizing how wrong he and his compatriots were and wanting everything to be over with. "I'm waiting in this cell because I have to know, have I been guilty all this time?" This person is finally starting to realize how bad fascism is (when the Holocaust was going on, many Germans blindly followed orders, not realizing they were wrong). One might think that in the upcoming Trial, he would be tried by the Allies for war crimes, but in that song, the defendant is accused of "showing feeling... of an almost human nature". So could "Stop" be the soldier defecting from the Nazis, and "The Trial" be about the soldier being tried in a Nazi court?
The way that this song goes with "Waiting for the Worms" makes me think that it is about a Nazi soldier or official waiting in his cell to face "The Trial". "I wanna go home, take off this uniform and leave the show" makes me think of a former Nazi awaiting trial and realizing how wrong he and his compatriots were and wanting everything to be over with. "I'm waiting in this cell because I have to know, have I been guilty all this time?" This person is finally starting to realize how bad fascism is (when the Holocaust was going on, many Germans blindly followed orders, not realizing they were wrong). One might think that in the upcoming Trial, he would be tried by the Allies for war crimes, but in that song, the defendant is accused of "showing feeling... of an almost human nature". So could "Stop" be the soldier defecting from the Nazis, and "The Trial" be about the soldier being tried in a Nazi court?