I believe the term Zion has something to do with Jerusalem, which the Jews currently control, but the Christians and Muslims both want control over it as well because each of the Abrahamic faiths has some divine correspondence with the city, I think. Don't quote me on it though.
About the song, I'd have to agree that it is in reference to the conflict over Jerusalem.
Millenniums of bloodshed
Scourge this soil
The slopes of this mountain
In our violent coil
Red clouded skies
Pouring burning stones
The end is closing in
The world in painful moans.
This likely is describing how for so many years the Abrahamic faiths fought over the land's control, and how though the city is holy it is as if it is cursed (scourged means diseased, so the land is "diseased" with a curse) of bloodshed and violence for its control.
I believe the term Zion has something to do with Jerusalem, which the Jews currently control, but the Christians and Muslims both want control over it as well because each of the Abrahamic faiths has some divine correspondence with the city, I think. Don't quote me on it though.
About the song, I'd have to agree that it is in reference to the conflict over Jerusalem.
Millenniums of bloodshed Scourge this soil The slopes of this mountain In our violent coil Red clouded skies Pouring burning stones The end is closing in The world in painful moans.
This likely is describing how for so many years the Abrahamic faiths fought over the land's control, and how though the city is holy it is as if it is cursed (scourged means diseased, so the land is "diseased" with a curse) of bloodshed and violence for its control.