Top 10 Blind Guardian Songs with Religious References
It's about the Wiccan ritual of renewal and change of seasons, dealing with the Horned God and also contains references to the historical shift from Paganism to Christianity.
The best part about this song is Jesus Christ comes across as both divine and very human. I'm not Christian but damn, it's awesome.
It is about the final days of Jesus of Nazareth and his temptation in the desert.
"It is based on the religious aspect of the Messiah in the Old Testament, and tells of the crucifixion of Jesus from the point of view of a character who reluctantly helps fulfil the prophecy, by doing such things as building the cross and weaving the Crown of Thorns."(wiki)
This short intro song is "a version of the Latin phrase Pie Jesu Domine, dona eis requiem (English: O sweet Lord Jesus, grant them rest) chanted as it would be by monks. The phrase forms part of the Roman Catholic Requiem Mass, and is also identical to that which is chanted by the monks in Monty Python and the Holy Grail." (wiki)
It is about the faith and being faithful.