Checkmate in red
As we had on "Ambiguity", here again, some oriental tunes in the music. Something like the musical and lyrical brother of "Maharaja Palace" from the last CD. The story brings us to India and is about the oppresion and the torture of people, who are differently minded than the leaders say they have to be; and shows the cruel, despising machinations behind the golden towers in the dungeons and oubliettes of the palaces. The lyrics show the situation of an adoescent, who is abased by the leaders. He sees himself beeing part of a bloody "chess game", unable to control and react on his own authority. In "maharaja palace" we had the entry into the dungeon, now we have finaly arrived in the deepest dungeon of the palace. With a little preview into the future and the historical revolt of the opressed/ slaves and the end of the torture. But more of this next time,...
