| Opeth – The Funeral Portrait Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I think this song doesn't have anything to do about murdering, but just as the title suggests - about funeral. I imagine a guy-the narrator dying in the morning "Idle hands given another try So you wait and you savour the moment" - this could mean they examine his pulse and the "you" person (I imagine it being his wife maybe so that's how I'll keep on calling the person) waiting and hoping that it's not true. Then we get to the funeral procession, "Ruby eyes in the fog" - eyes may be red from crying. I think the next lines mean the narrator took his death calm and agreed to it, but his "wife" keeps thinking about him. "Like a derelict child Heart burning for a stranger Ascending to the meek Flock round the liars in awe" The wife is alone and tries to find contentment within the other participants of the funeral, but he sees them as liars who are there only cause "they should", he finds his wife being pathetic. The next few lines may describe the burial itself, "Fear me when we meet" means that meeting him might be a sign of death nearing his wife, or simply, he might be haunting her in her dreams. "Enough of this You will leave me now You will see it now Perish at my hands" He's starting to get annoyed by all the drama surrounding his funeral, he wants people to leave him already. Then he realises his wife simply cannot bear the loss of him, so he decides to take her with him into death. In the last, clean sung lines, he's saying that he's actually ok with his death, so he leaves the suffering to others. And I gotta say that 6th sadistic sniper interpretation is really impressing. |
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| Opeth – The Moor Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Putting "the moor" as title is hinting that it might have 2 meanings, not only the place but also the person - altho it doesn't neccesarilly means he's black or a muslim, might just be what people called him cause of his beliefs. The idea of the protagonist being atheist and oppositionist of the church is pretty obvious, altho there is quite some arguments about that he might be black as well, like in Godhead's Lament - "staining the soil" or "white hands grasping for straws" or here the "deathmask" or "pale touch", which might be referring to touch of death as well. | |
| Opeth – The Lotus Eater Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I think this song might be about an alcoholic abusing his family, not necessarily a king of any sort as Heir Apparent seems more metaphorical. Also Hessian Peel would make sense to this, and Mikael himself said it is a concept album. Amazing song nevertheless. | |
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