| Sabaton – To Hell and Back Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| It's about Audie Murphy, a very highly decorated US soldier. He was also decorated by Belgium and France. | |
| HammerFall – Living In Victory Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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I interpret this song as being about someone who lost the thread of what they were trying to accomplish and instead got sidetracked into the side benefits of their work, not living FROM victory TO victory. For example, a hotshot employee gets sidetracked from doing his/her job (the thing they're paid for and garners them real attention) to being overly involved in the office politics, gossip and intrigue. They're failing but there's a self-delusional perception they are still making their chops. Of course being Hammerfall, we're talking about a warrior or warlord or king or some such. Going from accomplishments and victories being their source of satisfaction to feasting and partying being their main thing. There's also a strong current of getting sidetracked from living and experiencing your life to preserving and cherishing your life for it's own sake. For a man of action, that's quite a reversal, to go from experiencing life as it's own reward to some sort of isolating self-indulgence. There is a some sort of betrayal evident in the lyrics, the singer has been betrayed by the subject person of the song. The singer has figured it out though and knows exactly what went wrong with their friendship. Anyways, this is the gist of the song as I interpret it. |
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| Blue Öyster Cult – Dancin' In The Ruins Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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The line, "We can build a laser, tear the mesh," is actually, "We can build a maze of tenderness." This fits better and keeps us from having to add post-apocalyptic connotations to the song. The statues, castles and mazes are all parallel elements from medieval times. |
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| Sabaton – 7734 Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I believe this song is quite a bit deeper in meaning than taken at face value. The best position is that this song is about the fall from the Viking age, the rise of modern Odinism and the Swedish black metal scene. How can we reconcile the following verses? Falling down Now your soul returns to paradise 7734 I believe the best answer is that 7734 is a distorted reflection of hell, as in, "one man's hell is another's heaven" and Falling down is not about a descent to hell - but about dying in battle so your soul can be transported to Asgard, which is paradise for a viking warrior. From the point of view of someone who believes the meek shall inherit the earth, Norse paganism must certainly look like a religion from hell and the practitioners as needing conversion. The math which turns 7734 to 777 (heaven) into 666 (hell) can be viewed along similar lines of point of view inversions. So the song uses some word inverts and reverse spellings to remind us that point of view is very important. "Do glatem live" has earlier been shown to be "evil metal god" spelled backwards (another stark point of view element). The full verse is: Do glatem live, creator of all What is ironic is that the creator in the Norse pantheon is Odin (along with his brothers). So Odin is the evil metal god, which is problematic as this is not really supported in Norse paganism. To reconcile this inconsistency we must also view the song as a description of the Swedish black metal scene's evolution from essentially embracing Satanic views (which they realized actually validates the religion they typically decry) to embracing Germanic Neopaganism or paganism in general. The position of this song within this album is also instructive, it comes after "Shadows" a song derived from Tolkien's fantasy (which Tolkien intended as the mythology of England and is about a mythical age in Europe, and after "Burn Your Crosses" an anti-religion song. 7734 basically combines the elements of the previous two songs into one. Also in Sabaton's catalog is the song "Swedish Pagans" a non-subtle glorification of the viking age. So there you have it - a self-consistent song meaning for an enigmatic set of verses. |
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