Avantasia: Farewell, What is your interpretation?

[UniverseofLove]

For one of my English modules, Unpopular Texts, I am doing a reading log for which we write about potentially offensive material and analyse it with how people could respond to it.

One of the four I have chosen to do is the song Farewell by Avantasia, a symphonic metal band.

I'd love to hear your thoughts on it.

[Gabriel]
Days had come, winters had gone,
and we gambolled like siblings in Paradise.
I was your knight, holding you tight
as a brother when I saw your crying eyes.
Time went by and we had to say goodbye.

Staring up to the clouds above
Children - so little and sad.
Hoping the saints could help one day
Lead us together again.
Holding the key to the alley of dreams
still in hands.

Chorus:
Time telling me to say farewell
but I knew that I would fight hell
and I know: We will
go for another time we can see,
for another time we'll be free,
for no more farewell.

[Anna]
Stepbrother tell me where have you been
when they brought me to this godforsaken place.
Sign of the cross - they took me away
for healing with herbs by the way of grace.
Now I wait for the day to feed the flames.

[Gabriel]
I have been caught in a cage of despair.
My heart as a monk's cell so empty and bare.
But no holy water can make me
forget you again...

Chorus


[Lugaid]
No farewell could be the last one.
If you long to meet again...


I'd appreciate any thoughts. I have taken it to be heathen-based about a witch who was burned, or going to be burned, for witchcraft/using herbs for healing. Would this be considered blasphemous or just anti-Christian?

Just to let you know, the hand in date is a couple of weeks from now.

Love & Light,
Ara