About the name
"Babel" is the name of both the song and the album on which their song appeared. The title is a reference to the story known as the Tower of Babel from Genesis 11:1–9 in the Bible. [1] The song features numerous other biblical references too, which is common for music by Mumford & Sons. [2]
Still, they maintain that their message is not intended to be explicitly religious in nature. [3] Rather, their bassist, Ted Dwane, noted in a Rolling Stone interview that the song is more generally about human striving and discontentment: "As humans, we’re such a discontented species. We’re always trying to further ourselves, and you get all the way to the moon and then it’s just discontent. You want to go to Mars." [4]
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