Much tanx to jlionheart for the historical references. I'm not well-schooled on English history and didn't know all that. I believe the song is about freedom and the death of monarchy-the album cover would support that. The reliogous references add a grandiosity and element of fate to the "cause"-Mr. Martin probably isn't proselytizing-in fact, the St. Peter reference is inaccurate-nowhere in the Bible does it say he has a key or is the gatekeeeper to heaven.