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Pain of Salvation – Sisters Lyrics 10 years ago
There's not 2 sisters, it's a metaphor. Both sisters are the same person, the past and the present of the same girl.

He is lonely and sad in a party when all of a sudden he finds the girl he loved once.

"For a second I think I get a glimpse
Of the real her, behind
[...]
But just this moment,
A change so sublime"

So, for a moment he sees the person she was before, but just for a moment, then he realizes she's not the person he loved anymore.

Something happened in the past, we don't know what, maybe something she did or didn't do, who knows... But whatever it happened, it changed all, and changed her, and both of them know it would be a huge mistake coming back together.

The rest of the song he emphasizes that she still has "almost" the same smile the same smell, the same voice... but nevertheless "she's not all you" (like a sister).

And both are drinking wine, which makes them doubt, until it finishes and then they have to make their decision...

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