| Opeth – The Devil's Orchard Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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If you watch the music video, it gives clues as to what this song is about. "This trail is obsidian, the grip of Winter uncoiled A lover would follow me Cast down and sworn to the dark" In the video a girl jumps off a building before the lyrics even start. She proceeds to fall to the ground, and upon contact she bursts into a cloud of blood/energy/whatever travelling downward. She committed suicide. The grip of winter uncoiled means that the hopelessness in her life (her winter) is now being 'uncoiled' (undone and changed into something else) by her suicide. "A lover would follow me~" she is probably committing suicide over a love of some sort. "Take the road where devils speak: 'God is dead' " The road where the morally righteous decision, or conscience bound choice is unheard of. "The wealth of darkness Inside you, telling you "now" Your senses corrupted Controlling a poisonous will" This is again about how her negativity in life has lead her to this point of suicide. She is standing on the edge of the building ready to jump to take her own life, and all the negativity builds up inside her (her wealth of darkness), and it twists and suppresses her primal instinct of survival. Her senses are corrupted, her will is poisonous, and the climax of this pain is the decision to jump from the building... "Now." The chorus again to reinforce the point of where there is no righteousness or morality. "In the corner of my eye You are tearing flesh from bone" indicative of the rest of the world/god; or the morally sound judging through passing thoughts, or judging directly in relation to suicide, or perhaps someone judging this exact suicide suicide in particular. "Led the blind in search to find A pathway to the sun Saw the signs intertwine And forgave me all my sins" At the moment of the jump she had chosen her path, and 'led her blind self' in search to find a way out (a pathway to the sun). The forgiving of all her sins was the moment of death where her life was cleansed, as were her 'sins'. "No stigmas revealing your vices, and there are no stigmas revealing our vices" The reasons that led her to suicide are no longer a disgraceful thing about her, because she is now dead. She gave up on any idea of living, and her secrets will be kept with her eternally in her rest. To her, God (hope in life) had died, and all her vices and afflictions are now dead as she died. The scenes in the video of "The Devil" overtaking the city is just a metaphor for how her mind has been clouded, and slowly enshrouded by 'darkness' (negativity). The in between scenes of her face with the patterns shows her in despair, completely oblivious to the world besides her past and current afflictions. Another reason I think this song is about suicide is because Opeth have written numerous songs that have to deal with an individuals death. Whether the song is from the perspective of the one dying, or from that of someone touched by or affected by one dying, Opeth writes a LOT about death on all their albums. This is merely my opinion, of course. |
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