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Pain of Salvation – Sisters Lyrics 13 years ago
I think you are wrong. Why? I don't see anything in this lyrics that tells me its about that.

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Pain of Salvation – Sisters Lyrics 13 years ago
I don't think it is a funeral since he sings that people are happy of wine. People wouldn't be that if the wife of his was dead and their just attended her funeral.

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Pain of Salvation – Sisters Lyrics 13 years ago
My few coppers:

In short, it is about a man who at a party meets his sister-in-law, in fact his wife's younger sister. He feel a sudden attraction toward her and as they talk he feels that she feels the same. However they fight, or at least try to fight, their urges due to the consequences.

Let me go into detail a bit more:

"When all are dizzy and happy from too much wine
I leave the party behind
To be alone with my thoughts and this spinning mind
Through this cold night
But there she stands"

Is about him not really enjoying the party, for what reason we only could guess about, and decides to leave the party. Perhaps because the others are so joyful, perhaps because he and his wife has problems unsolved. But on his way out he meets with his wifes younger sister.

"And she walks like you
And she smiles almost like you
A child of the wild just like you

For a second I think I get a glimpse
Of the real her, behind
She's warm and fragile
With smiles that reach to her eyes
But just this moment,
A change so sublime"

He sees her in a new light, like for the first time, and he recognize his wife in her, or more precisely: The thing he loves his wife for, he sees in her younger sister.

"If she looked me deep into my eyes
And softly asked me too
I'd be in her bed and in her flesh
And waste a life I knew

So I hold my breath and close my eyes
And focus on the wine
Let this trembling moment pass us by
So I could say goodnight"

He wants her, oh yeah he wants her, but tries to resist the temptation with the knowledge that if he doesn't, his life will never be the same, no matter if his wife is gone or not, things would change to such a degree.

"But then, an impulse
I almost touched her face
Before I pulled back my hand
And we get nervous
We laugh and she spills her wine
Both so awkward, for what's on our mind"

It is obvious that she is into him as well.

"And she talks like you
And she smells almost like you
A child of the wild just like you
But she's not all you
Even strives not to be you
Just like every sister would do"

Her we have it again, the similarities he see between them, but also that they are in fact not the same. Not at all, and if the sister actually tries not to be like her bigger sister.

"If I'd looked into her eyes
And softly asked her too
She would give herself and give her flesh
And waste a life she knew"

She wants him too, and the prize to pay for that is the same for her as for him. Would they lose the wife/sister? Or if she is dead, would they be outcasts of both their families?

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