[The song is about] those who perpetrate injustices and what the world is doing to stop them. In fantasy tales, dragons were notorious for stealing children and feeding them to their babies. During the first part of the song, I sing ‘Someone has taken a child.’ The second part is about a cruel feudal lord. The third part is about ‘electronic serfdom.‘ (…) [The computer] is a small god with an electrical heart. It is time to rebel against it.

-Ronnie James Dio

This wasn’t the first time Dio wrote about his dislike of technology and computers. The song Computer God is also about technology becoming too powerful and destroying humanity.