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Originally Posted by Muladhara
*headdesk*
I give up trying to convince people that it's leech, considering that there's far more evidence out there for it to be leech than legion, what with Maynard making regular remarks about hating the 'leeches', the 'vampires' and the 'bloodsuckers' and absolutely none about obscure Christian demons who bare no relevance to anything in the song apart from vaguely the line "tempted the Devil with my song", which nobody seems to want to think means "made a deal with a record company agent", instead assuming that Maynard is talking about the biblical Devil, I find it amazing that anybody would think it's anything but "silence leech and save your poison, silence leech and stay out of my way."
But I'll just wait for the official lyrics to be posted.
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I can't really distinguish between "leech and/leeches" and "legion/legions." However, I don't think that "legion" would refer to the demons who eventually convinced a bunch of pigs that they could fly off a cliff. I believe that this story employs an allegory to the colonization of provincial Jambi in order to help tell other, more personal stories. Given that Sultan Taha faced numerous (works with "legion"), foreign, oppositional forces- some of a military structure (also works with "legion), and others of a more commercial-industrial structure; Maynard could be invoking the voice of Taha as he implores the silence of these legions. I don't know which is right, but I thought that I'd offer a justification that could satisfy a more rational perspective.