[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campus_Martius[/url]

"The Campus was used for pasturing horses and sheep, and for military training activity of both the army and of private people who could use the training equipment the army had left. As such, it was dedicated to Mars, the Roman god of war, with an ancient altar and became closely linked to soldiers and the army. At first, the field was often used by soldiers for purposes of training. Later, it was frequently the focus of triumphs, the celebrations of successful military campaigns." - wiki

Brett said that "high above the fields of mars" meant that maybe some day we can get over war in general. BR has always been pretty anti war in song base; most of the songs can either be contributed to politics or war, or current and past happenings in the news.

In my opinion this song talks about a soldier who kills a lot of people every time, in everyday, and he has a certain chance to go to hell when he dies. Also he probably doesn't want to go to hell and wants to go to the Fields of Mars and doesn't want to live in wars. Hurting for pleasure (or job, it's very ambiguous).

The allegorical nature of this song is pretty straight-forward, I would think. The song writer makes the connection between Mars, the [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_%28mythology%29]Roman god of war[/url], and his fields of war wherein murder is legal and supported by the government and approved by the general populace. I think the voice in the song is current given the wars on the planet, the genocide and militarism. Placing an artifact from the Roman mythology in today's context and speaking in the future tense (I'll see you above the fields) are effective in creating a sense of timelessness to the hardships endured by casualties and victims of war.

[b]Q: I understand that you've said the Iraq war isn't explicitly mentioned in the album.[/b]
[quote=Greg][...] We traditionally are a band that criticizes the currently-held view or the popular view as being one that's not very well thought-out, and so the war was an obvious target, but we still live in a society that doesn't think very much, and so there's plenty of fallout from the war, from the social implications that we're left with, and those are the kinds of things we are addressing on this album. I guess the most blatant we get is an allegory to the god of war in a song called "The Fields of Mars."[/quote] AbsolutePunk Interview (June 22, 2007)