Rock the Casbah misheard as Rock the cash-bar. I thought it was a song about people drinking and being punished for drinking. In my defense, I was 4, and sadly I knew what a cash-bar was.
Rock the Casbah misheard as Rock the cash-bar. I thought it was a song about people drinking and being punished for drinking. In my defense, I was 4, and sadly I knew what a cash-bar was.
Billy Talent’s “Viking Death March” is a song about religious hypocrisy, capitalistic exploitation and doing something about it.
I initially understood the chorus as singing “crosses to bend, axes to fall” and wasn’t quite sure what to make of it. The crosses in churches being torn down could fit with the axes, but you wouldn’t bend them so much as break them. The only usage for bent crosses I could think of were Swastikas, but that also didn’t quite seem to fit the rest of the song, nor the impression I had of the band.
Later, I figured out that it wasn’t “bend”, but “burn”, which still didn’t clear things up: Burning crosses also isn’t exactly a leftist symbol, and following up “You preach about love and teach about faith, but all your beliefs are still rooted in hate” with a call to burn crosses just doesn’t really track.
It’s not a call to action. It’s “Crosses still burn, axes still fall”. It’s calling attention to the fact that these hateful evils haven’t disappeared.