| Thrice – Child of Dust Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Also, all of you, doesn't this seem more like death talking than a notion of God's forgiveness? A sonnet's theme is the last two lines, and the last two lines in this whole song are "now safe beneath their wisdom and their feet, here I will teach you, truly, how to sleep", which would imply that despite how you life in your lifetime, you're going to eventually die and no wisdom will really matter at that point; take out any spiritual overtones for a minute and consider that. Those two lines say close to nothing about forgiveness. | |
| Thrice – Child of Dust Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| eRockr, I see what you mean. But I took that less as hurting the earth and more of destroying happiness and replacing it with negativity. | |
| Symphony X – Paradise Lost Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| isn't it "looking down from Ethereal skies?" | |
| Thrice – Child of Dust Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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When I heard it, tacky or not, it sounded like God talking. hahah Yes, eRockr, every sonnet was about the Elements telling humanity a flaw that was inherent in its respective volume. But I didn't get the feeling of us hurting the earth, so much as each other. |
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| Thrice – Child of Dust Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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When I heard it, tacky or not, it sounded like God talking. hahah Yes, eRockr, every sonnet was about the Elements telling humanity a flaw that was inherent in its respective volume. But I didn't get the feeling of us hurting the earth, so much as each other. |
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| Thrice – Silver Wings Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I know this isn't entirely on topic, but when I hear this I think of my girlfriend. I got to know her at a time where I was heartbroken beyond belief, and took the opportunity of getting to know her for granted since I never expected to get to know (let alone date) her, so I was a jerk and whatnot. But we became fond friends and then got into a relationship. Anyways, connecting this song to God is a valid thought, since God is according to christian doctrine all good (though Child of Dust felt more like God talking lol). But don't oversee the fact that it is about air; I'd think more along the lines of people that bitch about being alive, since it sounds more like people that are never content with their life, despite having life itself. |
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| Opeth – Reverie/Harlequin Forest Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Whenever I hear it, I think about the Forest of Suicides from Dante's Inferno. (from Wikipedia) In this ring are the suicides, who are transformed into gnarled thorny bushes and trees. They are torn at by the Harpies. Unique among the dead, the suicides will not be bodily resurrected after the final judgment, having given their bodies away through suicide. Instead they will maintain their bushy form, with their own corpses hanging from the limbs... "They are the trees, rotten pulp inside and never well, roots sucking, thieving from my source, tired boughs reaching for the light It is all false pretension, Harlequin forest, awaiting redemption for a lifetime as they die alone with no one by their side, are they forgiven?" ...The other residents of this ring are the profligates, who destroyed their lives by destroying the means by which life is sustained (i.e. money and property). They are perpetually chased by ferocious dogs through the thorny undergrowth. (Canto XIII) "Into the trees, past meadow grounds, and further away from my home. Baying behind me I hear the hounds, flock's chasing to find me alone." |
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| Opeth – Reverie/Harlequin Forest Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Whenever I hear it, I think about the Forest of Suicides from Dante's Inferno. (from Wikipedia) In this ring are the suicides, who are transformed into gnarled thorny bushes and trees. They are torn at by the Harpies. Unique among the dead, the suicides will not be bodily resurrected after the final judgment, having given their bodies away through suicide. Instead they will maintain their bushy form, with their own corpses hanging from the limbs... "They are the trees, rotten pulp inside and never well, roots sucking, thieving from my source, tired boughs reaching for the light It is all false pretension, Harlequin forest, awaiting redemption for a lifetime as they die alone with no one by their side, are they forgiven?" ...The other residents of this ring are the profligates, who destroyed their lives by destroying the means by which life is sustained (i.e. money and property). They are perpetually chased by ferocious dogs through the thorny undergrowth. (Canto XIII) "Into the trees, past meadow grounds, and further away from my home. Baying behind me I hear the hounds, flock's chasing to find me alone." |
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| Opeth – Reverie/Harlequin Forest Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Whenever I hear it, I think about the Forest of Suicides from Dante's Inferno. (from Wikipedia) In this ring are the suicides, who are transformed into gnarled thorny bushes and trees. They are torn at by the Harpies. Unique among the dead, the suicides will not be bodily resurrected after the final judgment, having given their bodies away through suicide. Instead they will maintain their bushy form, with their own corpses hanging from the limbs... "They are the trees, rotten pulp inside and never well, roots sucking, thieving from my source, tired boughs reaching for the light It is all false pretension, Harlequin forest, awaiting redemption for a lifetime as they die alone with no one by their side, are they forgiven?" ...The other residents of this ring are the profligates, who destroyed their lives by destroying the means by which life is sustained (i.e. money and property). They are perpetually chased by ferocious dogs through the thorny undergrowth. (Canto XIII) "Into the trees, past meadow grounds, and further away from my home. Baying behind me I hear the hounds, flock's chasing to find me alone." |
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| Train – Drops of Jupiter Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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^It sounds like you're onto something, but I'm not sure how you got the spirituality part. When I heard the part about Mozart and Tai bo, it sounded like she was just doing things to get her mind off the pain from her memories of 'searching for herself'. I also don't see how that part expresses any real security on the author's behalf. I like how they make a reference to Jupiter, though I see it more as Zeus than the planet, how he never really loved girls, just kinda screwed them and went onto another, because he was a god and girls would always want him. |
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| Opeth – Blackwater Park Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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The song is from the more from the perspective of the 'poet', establishing the assumption that the poet is describing his reason for creating the songs in Blackwater Park. Again, assuming this album deals with a psychosexual indevelopment, this song is like the writer of each of these songs saying that he never took part in these events from tracks 1-7, but he witnessed them or at least heard about them at some point, which inspired the creation of the album: "sick liasions raised this monumental mark. the sun sets forever over blackwater park." *tribute to Daniel lol |
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| Opeth – The Funeral Portrait Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I'd say it rehearses the theme of its preceeding songs, harvest being the initial dating of a girl, the drapery falls being the decline in the relationship, dirge for november being the breakup, and this, the funeral portrait, portraying their relationship after they're separated Ddadutta, I partially agree with you, it sounds like this guy has some kind of psychological issue, but it's not to say that he rapes them throughout each of these songs. The album, as a whole, felt more like a poetic description of some psychosexual indevelopment, but talking about different specific incidents in each song. |
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| Opeth – Harvest Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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JozzyJosbourne: I agree that it's about having someone by your side in time of death. When I first heard this song it reminded me of marriage, and it still does. living_nightmare: I think what he means by walking into the orchard, seeing wilted scenes because he couldn't wait, refers to an insight, an awareness, of death at an early age, before his time of death. Disturbed by that epiphany, he wants someone to comfort him, which would pacify that disturbance. |
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| Opeth – Harvest Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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JozzyJosbourne: I agree that it's about having someone by your side in time of death. When I first heard this song it reminded me of marriage, and it still does. living_nightmare: I think what he means by walking into the orchard, seeing wilted scenes because he couldn't wait, refers to an insight, an awareness, of death at an early age, before his time of death. Disturbed by that epiphany, he wants someone to comfort him, which would pacify that disturbance. |
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| Opeth – Ghost of Perdition Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I think it's about how girls tend to fall in love with guys because of their looks, regardless if they're total assholes or not. Of course, this song portrays a very gothic extreme of that raw truth. "Devil cracked the earthly shell Foretold she was the one Blew hope into the room and said: 'You have to live before you die young'... ...Ghost of perdition A saint's premonition's unclear Keeper of holy hordes Keeper of holy whores" How people (in this case, a woman) don't look past looks, don't see clearly in a state of ecstasy inherent in 'falling for someone': "...Darkness by her side Spoke and passed her by Dedicated hunter Waits to pull us under Rose up to it's call In his arms she'd fall Mother light received And a faithful servant's free..." The final paragraph, including the line about her son, tells about how there's this sort of cycle that goes on here; it holds some connection to the fact that eventually he'll be in a relationship with somebody, though I can't specifically pinpoint what particular part of a relationship it refers to: "...To see a beloved son In despair of what's to come If one cut the source of the flow And everything would change Would conviction fall In the shadow of the righteous The phantasm of you mind Might be calling you to go..." And how, despite the pain he sees his mother in, he'll eventually put some girl through the same ordeal, the victim being the mother in the chronological part of the song and the prey being the girl(s) he'll eventually go after in his lifetime: "Defying the forgotten mortals Where the victim is the prey" |
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