Firstly, i think this is the best song on the album; it's beautiful.
I'm not sure if i interpreted it right but here goes...
D'Artagnan was one of the Three Musketeers, and he died in battle. At the end of the song you hear choppers and what sounds like a bus or something...I'm guessin this is a soldiers' song, kind of a modern day D'Artagnan...
well, i don't know how else to say it
in a different way
why don't you just fade away
'cause there's a battle going on
down south of babylon
so why don't you just fade away
i think he is talking to a loved one, like a parent, friend or girlfriend and telling them that he has to go to war and he knows they are going to miss him, so he asks them to not worry about him, basically to let him fade out of their lives because he cares too much about them to hurt them. And the Babylon reference could be religious or a reference to the fighting in the Middle East...
...but this is just me, i could be completely wrong.
note they lyrics say...."down south of Babylon." the battle is south of the Babylon region which makes absolutely no sense in this song. D'Artagnan was French and died in the Netherlands which are all well Northwest of Babylon. I can't find anything in D'Artagnan's history which points to any place anywhere near Babylon (or south of it for that matter)
note they lyrics say...."down south of Babylon." the battle is south of the Babylon region which makes absolutely no sense in this song. D'Artagnan was French and died in the Netherlands which are all well Northwest of Babylon. I can't find anything in D'Artagnan's history which points to any place anywhere near Babylon (or south of it for that matter)
So... I've got to agree with thilighthousestale on this one. He says "D'Artagnan, good ol' D'Artagnan, he aint got a thing on me...", to me that sounds like this soldier who can't stand to hurt anyone but himself (south of Babylon) is saying he is not D'Artagnan.
So... I've got to agree with thilighthousestale on this one. He says "D'Artagnan, good ol' D'Artagnan, he aint got a thing on me...", to me that sounds like this soldier who can't stand to hurt anyone but himself (south of Babylon) is saying he is not D'Artagnan.
Firstly, i think this is the best song on the album; it's beautiful. I'm not sure if i interpreted it right but here goes... D'Artagnan was one of the Three Musketeers, and he died in battle. At the end of the song you hear choppers and what sounds like a bus or something...I'm guessin this is a soldiers' song, kind of a modern day D'Artagnan...
well, i don't know how else to say it in a different way why don't you just fade away 'cause there's a battle going on down south of babylon so why don't you just fade away
i think he is talking to a loved one, like a parent, friend or girlfriend and telling them that he has to go to war and he knows they are going to miss him, so he asks them to not worry about him, basically to let him fade out of their lives because he cares too much about them to hurt them. And the Babylon reference could be religious or a reference to the fighting in the Middle East... ...but this is just me, i could be completely wrong.
note they lyrics say...."down south of Babylon." the battle is south of the Babylon region which makes absolutely no sense in this song. D'Artagnan was French and died in the Netherlands which are all well Northwest of Babylon. I can't find anything in D'Artagnan's history which points to any place anywhere near Babylon (or south of it for that matter)
note they lyrics say...."down south of Babylon." the battle is south of the Babylon region which makes absolutely no sense in this song. D'Artagnan was French and died in the Netherlands which are all well Northwest of Babylon. I can't find anything in D'Artagnan's history which points to any place anywhere near Babylon (or south of it for that matter)
So... I've got to agree with thilighthousestale on this one. He says "D'Artagnan, good ol' D'Artagnan, he aint got a thing on me...", to me that sounds like this soldier who can't stand to hurt anyone but himself (south of Babylon) is saying he is not D'Artagnan.
So... I've got to agree with thilighthousestale on this one. He says "D'Artagnan, good ol' D'Artagnan, he aint got a thing on me...", to me that sounds like this soldier who can't stand to hurt anyone but himself (south of Babylon) is saying he is not D'Artagnan.