The part where it talks about "Standing before the heavens screaming, bring on the storm" might be a reference to shakespeare's King Lear. There is a scene in the play where the main character, King Lear is standing out in a field screaming at the sky during a storm. Also there's a jester character in the story called "the Fool". Anyway, the song as a whole might be about cowardice disguised as bravery versus actual bravery. It seems like there are a lot of verses relating to this sort of thing, such as "look to the actor in the heavy armor, his metal shakes, listen well to the deafening clamor whimpering makes", then going on to "look now to the unassuming, unwavering, standing before...". Perhaps the 'King Lear reference' was to show that the ones dressed up as knights in shining armor aren't the ones who deserve praise, but rather the madman who is brave enough to take on the very heavens alone (This is a theme in King Lear).
Oh, yeah by the way, sorry if that sounded super pretentious and snobby. If you haven't read king lear, you can probably just go on sparknotes or something to find all this stuff.
The part where it talks about "Standing before the heavens screaming, bring on the storm" might be a reference to shakespeare's King Lear. There is a scene in the play where the main character, King Lear is standing out in a field screaming at the sky during a storm. Also there's a jester character in the story called "the Fool". Anyway, the song as a whole might be about cowardice disguised as bravery versus actual bravery. It seems like there are a lot of verses relating to this sort of thing, such as "look to the actor in the heavy armor, his metal shakes, listen well to the deafening clamor whimpering makes", then going on to "look now to the unassuming, unwavering, standing before...". Perhaps the 'King Lear reference' was to show that the ones dressed up as knights in shining armor aren't the ones who deserve praise, but rather the madman who is brave enough to take on the very heavens alone (This is a theme in King Lear).
Oh, yeah by the way, sorry if that sounded super pretentious and snobby. If you haven't read king lear, you can probably just go on sparknotes or something to find all this stuff.