Serj Tankian - Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition Lyrics Meaning

Publish date: 2024-05-04
SAli

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Sep 12th 2011 !⃝

what I conceived from this song is that the writer wants to say religion has been misinterpreted and abused buy leaders and used as a tool for power, where he says : "from the prophet came the king".
he means that prophet came for a goal but it lead to kingdoms that was not based on prophets goals because this kingdoms lead to "the pauper".
And I guess he wants to say that this attitude toward religion would led to nothing but war, and what some people think that their religion is the key to redemption would be the key to war, where he says:
"Do we ever have enough
When we see that blue dove
We want to go where no ones been
No ones been"
I conclude that he means what we think as Armageddon that is the time when Jesus or Budda or Mahdi will come to form a new world that no one has ever been, is just what we are told by our religion leaders and this idea is being used as a tool by them for power "praise the lord and pass the ammunition" for those leaders this idea is what construct their power and for us this is just war and hate and poverty, and he wants us to know, this utopia can be achieved only by considering the truth about religion which is love "you don't know what this love is all about" and we should know what love is really about(and for sure that is not war and killing for ideas) , so I guess he want us to consider the goal of creation and prophets LOVE and this love should be love to everything and everyone and simply to creation . If we want that utopia we should stop feelings like hatred and start to love.

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