[How the crusaders burnt the Cathars as punishment for their so called heretic beliefs]. . Watch the final scene. At the Bucher or the stake. Gonna build a tower to bum.
[A short poem about the Castle that was home to the lyricists during writing of this album]. . 700 years of cold nights it's been there. 700 years of power fading away.
[How, through their beliefs the Cathars tried to achieve a state of Perfection]. . Search!. We can't eat no flesh no fowl. Sleeping around is out. Women are against the rules.
[The thinking of the knights and mercenaries as they fought the Cathars, how they were paid for forty days at a time]. . Before the sun goes down they'll scream.
[From the 11th to the 13th century a particular religious sect was allowed to grow in the Languedoc region of France. Called Catharism this dualist thinking religion flourished, not only with the poor but also people like the Counts of Toulouse and the great Esclarmonte of Foix. In the early part of the 13th century the Pope petitioned the king to form. a crusade and vanquish the heretics. This petitioning finally led to the Albigensian Crusade. A force of Knights and Mercenaries besieged the Cathars and in a massive pyre at Montsegur massacred some 200 of them virtually eliminating Catharism in Southern France].
[The massed attack and slaughter of the people and city of Beziers because the residents of that city killed a few of the crusaders]. . To Beziers city.
[How the events of the 13th century are remembered today, and does it really have any boaring on today's society]. . A country splintered by religion.