I essentially view this song as a stance on rape justice.
The song begins with "the one we followed has fallen to our foe" (or Eve listening to the serpent). However, the singer acknowledges this is no reason to "let ruin all your thirsting tongues" (use women to satiate one's carnal desires). The "tallies", or number of women who have fallen prey to the rapist, grows but there is no one to pass judgement. Therefore, the singer feels "the Kingdom" has ordained him to stand up for those women whom have been raped ("standing for the fires of the victims left to die"; "and I'll stay until their coward's on a pyre burned alive").
The singer comes home to find his daughter (whether he means his actual daughter or 'daughter of God' is of little difference) defiled and the bed covered in blood. He demands she show him where the man who did this lives so he can personally deal him justice. There he will "marry a blade to his throat" until he has removed the head from the rapist's shoulders.
This is a good interpretation for the song, but ignores that the song is part of a larger, hypothetical story.
This is a good interpretation for the song, but ignores that the song is part of a larger, hypothetical story.
"The one we followed has fallen to our foe" refers to God disappearing in the fight against Satan in Endseekers.
"You can't just shed your soul and let run all your thirsting tongues" refers to the fact that we can't just resort to anarchy after God "dies" because order and justice must remain.
"The one we followed has fallen to our foe" refers to God disappearing in the fight against Satan in Endseekers.
"You can't just shed your soul and let run all your thirsting tongues" refers to the fact that we can't just resort to anarchy after God "dies" because order and justice must remain.
Also, the narrator does mean his actual daughter; the entire album is about him and his daughter.
Also, the narrator does mean his actual daughter; the entire album is about him and his daughter.
I essentially view this song as a stance on rape justice.
The song begins with "the one we followed has fallen to our foe" (or Eve listening to the serpent). However, the singer acknowledges this is no reason to "let ruin all your thirsting tongues" (use women to satiate one's carnal desires). The "tallies", or number of women who have fallen prey to the rapist, grows but there is no one to pass judgement. Therefore, the singer feels "the Kingdom" has ordained him to stand up for those women whom have been raped ("standing for the fires of the victims left to die"; "and I'll stay until their coward's on a pyre burned alive").
The singer comes home to find his daughter (whether he means his actual daughter or 'daughter of God' is of little difference) defiled and the bed covered in blood. He demands she show him where the man who did this lives so he can personally deal him justice. There he will "marry a blade to his throat" until he has removed the head from the rapist's shoulders.
This is a good interpretation for the song, but ignores that the song is part of a larger, hypothetical story.
This is a good interpretation for the song, but ignores that the song is part of a larger, hypothetical story.
"The one we followed has fallen to our foe" refers to God disappearing in the fight against Satan in Endseekers. "You can't just shed your soul and let run all your thirsting tongues" refers to the fact that we can't just resort to anarchy after God "dies" because order and justice must remain.
"The one we followed has fallen to our foe" refers to God disappearing in the fight against Satan in Endseekers. "You can't just shed your soul and let run all your thirsting tongues" refers to the fact that we can't just resort to anarchy after God "dies" because order and justice must remain.
Also, the narrator does mean his actual daughter; the entire album is about him and his daughter.
Also, the narrator does mean his actual daughter; the entire album is about him and his daughter.