Suzerain

Album: For All Kings (2016)
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  • This politically charged track finds Joey BellaDonna musing about a leader who would be so powerful that all nations would come under his benevolent authority, and in return, he would bring peace, joy and prosperity to all of Earth.

    "Mankind keep making the same mistakes over and over," said lyricist and guitarist Scott Ian. "You'd think that after thousands of years of religious, economic and ideologic wars, we'd have figured out how to live with each other, but we haven't. That's what drew me to the idea for 'Suzerain.'"

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  • TomdI've only ever heard the word Suzerain in one other place, that being a famous novel. Those whoa re fans of that novel often quote the passage with that word in it.

    Given the band's history of drawing inspiration from books, I can't wrap my head around this being a coincidence.

    In other words, the analysis presented here is WAY off.
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