Reviews for Gods Of War Lyrics

The three most important pillars of Ronald Reagan’s national security policy were (1) peace through strength; (2) trust but verify; and (3) beware of evil in the modern world.

It is not time for peace through love. As a species, humans are much too young. There is still evil in the world, evil that would take your gesture of love as a sign of weakness, inviting attack from those whom would turn you from Christ or remove your head.

And I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and He who sat on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and wages war. …From His mouth comes a sharp sword, so that with it He may strike down the nations, and He will rule them with a rod of iron; and He treads the wine press of the fierce wrath of God, the Almighty (Revelation 19:11, 15).

You might interpret the message of Jesus as one of only peace and love, but I refuse to believe that he would want his people laying down in death at the feet of those who would wish to slaughter his believers.


.....and that's my two cents.

The lyrics to Gods of War are not to GLORIFY war, but to rail AGAINST it!
We need to fight against the Gods of War like Reagan and Thatcher whose speech snippets are included at the end of song. American imperialism should NOT be romanticized as it is the CAUSE of Terrorism from other sovereign nations as we occupy them and try to pillage them by opening them up to our "free markets" of corporatism.
No, I am not a foreigner. I was born and raised an American Citizen, saved by the blood of Jesus and his ways of LOVE, and I am now a Ron Paul supporter.

[Reagan] A message to terrorists everywhere, you can run, but you can't hide [Thatcher] We're determined to stand again, and we're determined to take action [Reagan] We're not going to tolerate these attacks from outlaw states. We will not cave in. Today we have done what we had to do. We counted on America to be passive. We counted wrong.

I just want to state that I have always loved Def Leppard and always will. GODS OF WAR is one of my favorites, with all the sound effects towards the end of the song and Ronald Reagan's speeches sends chills down my spine everytime. I have to admit I am not one that follows what goes on everyday in this world, but what I do hear and see I know things need to change, and we need another Ronald Reagan for our President!!

GOD BLESS AMERICA!!

I am just writing this note to say if you've not ever listened to the song you wouldn't know that it has sound bytes of Ronald Reagan's famous speeches about not giving in to terrorism and the wrong assumption of the terrorists and terrorist states to think that they could get us to do what they wanted us to do by the methods of terrorism, in the context of Omar Qaddafi. In light of the present it holds a much more significant context. Listen to the song and they are excellent quotes. I know that the song was more or less written as a rant against what we as America was doing against terrorism, but with the soldiers I went to basic training with, it didn't turn out that way. I went to basic training in 1988 and this album came out just prior to that in the end of the summer of 1987. We wrote "gods of war" on our helmets like Matthew Modine had on his helmet in FULL METAL JACKET as others in Vietnam conflict surely did in real life. But, our use of its was that in hopes we too would become superior over any enemy of America as we had all hoped to do at that point over communism. Terrorism as a problem for America was just in its infancy stage. Yet, we had a great president to set a precedent to deal with it(no pun intended in the wordplay there). Thank GOD we did have Ronald Reagan. I think Def Leppard's producer Robert "Mutt" Lange(who now produces and is married to Shania Twain) probably added the sound bytes as his own idea so as to do exactly as the song is intended to do, incite a hatred yet a respect for war in this new fashion of terrorism [to us young Americans anyway for whom he was trying to marketize to] as the world was dealing with in its view of Omar Qaddafi. {{just a sidenote: if you listen to any of Shania Twain's music since Lange has been producing her albums, you can identify Def Leppardish sound distinctly on all tracks pretty much instantly.}} Oh, by the way, I'm writing this while on military duty in Iraq just north of Baghdad in Al Taji, at US Army military base CAMP COOKE. I don't actually listen to rock music anymore but thought I'd look up the lyrics to this song to try and find what speeches it was in which Ronald Reagan made the statements about dealing with terrorism. It was a pretty neat effect in the song to use the speeches and special effects of helicopters and booms and machine gun fire to get the blood going and mind thinking through the adrenal rush the song incited in me, as a teenager who as many soldiers join the military dream of, to get me to join the military and fight our enemies in the world. If only Lange and the Leps new. I'm sure they'd've left the song off the album. It was my favorite for sure. I was introduced to Def Leppard while at basic training. I'd never heard them before then. So, you see the impact of those lyrics are important to this song. You must find out and include them. It's important.