Dream Theater – Prophets of War

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  Those are the correct lyrics.

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  General Comment:i love James's vocal in this song

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  General Comment:"considering that religous faith is what started the whole mess to begin with." The problem is that you're taking the line out of context. The next line is still part of the same train of thought, "Pray they will forgive" I think that DT is saying the only thing we can do is have faith that they will forgive the mistake we've made and pray that they'll understand. Otherwise even if we declare the war over they may still seek vengeance leading to another exaggerated issue.

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  General Comment:Also, to back up the fact that LaBrie is very unbiased, his lines
  The only thing
  That I believe
  Will help us see this through is faith
  Pray they will forgive
  Forgive our arrogance
  So we can make it right
  Right what they have wronged
  can be interpreted in many ways. Many Dissenters believe that it is our fault and that we are arrogant to go over their and police the world or whatever other naive thoughts, while many others realize that this is an extension of the war on terrorism, and when researched, realize that Saddam Huessein harbored terrorists in his country, where accodring to US intelligence, some 8,000 terrorists were trained. Also, although Bin Laden was at the time in Afghanistan, Al Quaida had many terrorist camps in Iraq. this is where the line "right what they have wronged" comes in. at least thats what I thought, and it makes sense.

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  General Comment:I have to say that this song is pretty unbiased, and because everything is a metaphor, it all depends on the listener's interpretation. For example, profit doesn't necessarily mean money or power, but perhaps will the ends justify the means. So one could say instead of "are we profiting from war?" "Is the world safer with these tyrants out of power" like I took it to be "is the world profiting from the war."

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  General Comment:Personally, I find it fairly unbiased. I didn't know sacrificed sons was meant to be neutral, as 9/11 was a tragedy all together. I think with this song, it's the same as the great debate, people see the viewpoint of the song the way they want to.

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  General Comment:They're not saying America in general is profiting from war, they're talking about certain Americans who are (Cheney, Haliburton, Bush, etc). And no, Bush doesn't really profit financially, but does by gaining power over the people.

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  General Comment:I actually thought he was causing George W. a Faggot at first. But of course they don't write stuff like that.

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  General Comment:LaBrie says something on the DVD about trying to write an unbaised view of the war, but I don't think he succeded. He tried the same thing for Sacrificed Sons and it didn't really work either. I say leave that kind of writing to JP. He did it great on The Great Debate.

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  General Comment:Religion I think did play a part, but so did greed. Iraq did not have anything to do with 9/11 (or atleast not proven), that actually helped to backbone the US attacking Iraq.
  
  But also, Labrie could be referring to other forms of faith as well as religion. Faith in the US troops, Canadian troops, in Afghanistan. That they will prevail and perhaps bring these countries out of a long war state.

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    I kind of think of schindler when I hear of this song, since at first Schindler is really only trying to make a good profit off the captured Jewish in WW2, but then he started to want to get more Jewish just to keep them from being killed. I think it goes kind of well with this song.

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