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Jul 28, 2008
As a British band, the song is about the fall of the British Empire. The French influence is just used to throw people off. He is talking about the fall of power in the Western World. The puppet on a string is the British government acting as a puppet for the you. S. Remember, the sun never set on the British Empire at one time. Dishonesty resulted. Revolution came. He's reflecting on the generational legacy of the Britain's global colonial expansion and it's gradual decline.