User blog comment:AK151/"Sacrifice" Analysis/@comment-5041507-20141104144802/@comment-25308685-20141105005553

I agree with BenRG, the way Mercury brought the issue up, could indicate that this was not part of the plan.

Through the song could be interpreted as talking about the narrators dislike for self sacrifice, not sacrificing others in general. Through that will depend largely on what kind of performance is given to the lines about the deaths and seeds