It was me, peering through the looking-glass.
Beyond the embrace of Christ.
Like the secret face within the tapestry.
Like a bird of prey over the crest.
And she was swathed in sorrow, as if born within its mask.
Her candlelight snuffed, the icon smiled.
Emptiness followed by her wake.
I could clasp her in undying love.
Within ghostlike rapture the final word was mine.
She faced me in awe. 'twas a token of ebony color.
Embodied in faint vapor.
Wandering through April's fire.
Compelled to grasp and to hold the one that was you.
I will endure, hide away.
I would outrun the scythe, glaring with failure.
It is a mere destiny I thought, a threshold I had crossed before.
The rain was waving goodbye, and when the night came
The forest folded its branches around me.
Something passed by, and I went into a dream.
She laughing and weeping at once: "take me away".
I don't know how or why, I'll never know when.


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April Ethereal Lyrics as written by Sven Peter Malcolm Lindgren Mikael Lars Akerfeldt

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    This song is one I can really relate to. When I was very young (about 3 years old so I can barely remember it) after my uncle died I saw him waving goodbye to me in the mirror. But then when someone very close to me died recently I had flashbacks of this image and really expected to see her face in the mirror, and at times I even imagined I did. But whenever I looked she was gone. So the first two lines are quite chilling. The way he describes his presence in the 3rd line shows he's hidden and can only be seen by actually LOOKING for him, and the 4th line 'like a bird of prey over the crest' is almost an early omen, a sign on things to come later in the story. This sort of haunting atmosphere continues into the song "...final word was mine", and in the 6th line where he says "the icon smiled", this refers to the narrator himself, describing himself as her icon. He believes that she loves him very deeply and would do anything for him ... this has other implications which also become apparant later in the story. He turns out the candle and tries to embrace her ... this reminds me of one other time when grieving for someone, I wasn't sure if I could faintly feel her outline in the air before me, and in the darkness I could almost see a mistly outline. I was completely awestricken by this, even though I'm sure it was imagined because I was so much in denial about her death at the time. Then it seems to show him running from the reaper (the scythe being the hook he carries), and upon hearing her ask him to "Take me away", he pledges to do just that and returns to the forest, hiding from his destiny and waiting for his chance to do this for her.

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