What do you think War? means?

System of a Down: War? Meaning

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Album cover for War? album cover

Song Released: 1998


War? Lyrics

Dark is the light,
The man you fight,
With all your prayers, incantations,
Running away, a trivial day,
Of judgment and deliverance,
To whom was sold, this bounty soul,
A gentile or a priest ?
Who victored over, the seljuks,
When the holy...

  1. Darkangel_X
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    Nov 5th 2006 !⃝

    Religion? Fighting off the anti-christians and those who don't believe in god?

    "we will fight the heathens."

    just the way I perceived it. This could also be about antidisestablishmentarianism. I mean that, I'm not saying that to seem like a smartass who knows a big word.

  2. anonymous
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    Jul 17th 2006 !⃝

    actually more specifically it's supposed to be that ^^^ but it's also supposed 2 use the armenian genocide, (and now coincidentally the war in iraq tho they wrote this song WAY before that) to examplify the whole using religion to justify war conciously and subconsciously.

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