While the other theories are rather interesting, but maybe Moz saw the beginning of the mass emigration from Islamic nations to Sweden and Norway and wrote this--the hatred of the culture, the violent imagery, the elements of racism, "pinned to a crime," etc.
There is also a difference of religious/cultural identity, "praise the god that made ya," suggesting a difference in belief.
I also see some unhinged, unstable behavior in the extreme flights of emotion from cursing a nation to the worship of its very soil through the process of a single person holding out their hand.
To me it's rather a fatalistic love song from a doomed emigrant to a cold country...in some ways it reminds me of "There is a Light" in it's wild passion mixed with death-obsessed doom.
While the other theories are rather interesting, but maybe Moz saw the beginning of the mass emigration from Islamic nations to Sweden and Norway and wrote this--the hatred of the culture, the violent imagery, the elements of racism, "pinned to a crime," etc.
I also see some unhinged, unstable behavior in the extreme flights of emotion from cursing a nation to the worship of its very soil through the process of a single person holding out their hand.
To me it's rather a fatalistic love song from a doomed emigrant to a cold country...in some ways it reminds me of "There is a Light" in it's wild passion mixed with death-obsessed doom.
But maybe I'm using hindsight. YMMV.