Nowadays, there are obviously more hidden, secret religious groups as most of us thought. This may be o.k. for people who think they get help (physical and mental) out of this and that gives them hope not to be alone it this cold world - but - strange and bad enough - most of the time there's only one person who makes profit out of it. (Financially or bodily) The so called leader of such a group. And many, lonesome and dissapointed from life, people follow those leaders with totally giving up their own personalities. This song is written from a (possible) leaders point of view, his way to find the weak points of his followers and use this for his own advantage and profit. In the lyrical story, some groups are operating together like indepent, but very close companionships. The so called "Shadowlands"!