London

• "chartered Thames"


  Ideas of institutional ownership of nature, controlling what should flow free
• "mind forged manacles"


  Internalized social oppression the industry has conditioned people into fear but they also trap themselves by not rising up
• "blackening church"


  Corruption, the compliancy leads to moral "blackening"
• "hapless soldiers sigh runs in blood down palace walls"


  The walls prevent the monarchy from having to face the suffering they are inflicting upon those who die for them