| Opeth – Windowpane Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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as jonas87 says, and from the interview with mikael, i don't think this song is about child abuse but is simply about seeing a face in a window and thinking/elaborating about that. i should explain thus: "Blank face in the windowpane Made clear in seconds of light Disappears and returns again *Counting hours, searching the night" -simply setting the scene, he sees someone in the windowpane, looking outside, going in and out of view, presumably attending to something, take note of the last phrase which I marked with an asterisk "Might be waiting for someone Might be there for us to see Might be in need of talking Might be staring directly at me" -lists his thoughts about the person looking from the window, again, i should mark this whole stanza with an asterisk (I will elaborate on this at the end) "Inside plays a lullaby Slurred voice over children cries On the inside" -again, this is purely description as I see it, presumably there are children inside and the person at the window is putting them to sleep with a lullaby. lullabies are usually soft and slurred, and not intense as they are a means of inducing sleep "*Haunting loneliness in the eye *Skin covering a secret scar His hand is waving a goodbye *There's no response or action returned" -i think the "skin covering..." line is meant to be taken metaphorically, as the "scar" is not physical but mental, it is under the skin, not discernible by looking at the person physically, but from the previous line, "haunting loneliness" in their eyes, which the narrator sees in the person "There is deep prejudice in me Outshines all reason inside Given dreams all ridden with pain And projected unto the last " -i think this part ties the song together and induces the meaning i see in the song. now notice the lines that are unmarked with asterisks above, they seem to be just descriptions of the physical world and the person looking through the window, but the narrator laments that "there is deep prejudice" in him, which makes it hard for him to take what he sees at face value, or at least reconcile with the fact that he doesn't know much about other people (let alone a singular face looking from a window). now i think the "given dreams all ridden with pain" talks not about the person at the window, but about the narrator, in which the narrator is actually the one with the secret scars under his skin. this, i believe is further reinforced by the last line, "and projected unto the last". this is simply him (the narrator) projecting his inner thoughts and feelings unto the person at the window, looking at him. it is the narrator that "might be waiting for someone/ in need of talking" and it is again the narrator who doesn't wave back, possibly held back by his emotions. at the end stanza, he realizes that it is not the person at the windowpane, but his projecting of his inner thoughts that he is aware of, and this is why his predjudice outshines his reason, he cannot experience the outer world objectively, but only from his inner windowpane, from which his inner feelings reflect back at him. |
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| Lovage – Lifeboat (Officer and a Gentleman) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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hi, first post here.. firstly, awesome album i love the witty and clever lyrics all throught the album the lyrics to this song almost remind me of the movie Titanic (although my memory of the movie may be a bit hazy -its been a while since i last saw it) After all our dreams went down Sinking for our very eyes -scene: titanic is sinking. their "dreams" in connotation with the journey at hand are going down; sinking. Still echoing the sound Oh, the frozen dreadful cries -frozen: cold sea - people screaming Witnessed the passing of our only loves Lose a battle to the sea -their only love (between dicaprio and winslet) lost a battle to the sea (the guy dying) Why did you choose my only love? It could have easily been me -notice the girl sings this part: basically saying it could have been me (that had to stay in the water and freeze to death) But it seems there was some other plan One I don't care to understand In the refuge of these foreign arms I could find your holy land -so guy sings first 2 lines; the "grand plan" is beyond him now that he is dead. next 2 lines by the girl: she has to go marry someone else yet she can still "find his holy land" from the memory that remains How can it be that we defy this tragedy From this lifeboat in the dark Is it wrong that we could come together? Wind and sorrow bear a spark -pretty self explanatory imo: lifeboat is obviously the lifeboat that the girl was on, and probably holds a deeper meaning in the sense of "struggle against the sea" (that they were battling in the prev stanza) In our soul and desperation Truest thing we'd ever known - =love But to admit that to the world would be blasphemy Just to show we had our ground - their classes prevent this love from happening, in the eyes of the society. so admitting to such a love would be blasphemy (rich girl - poor guy combo) yeah this interpretation may be a bit far-fetched but this picture was in my mind instantly after listening to this song a couple times and reading the lyrics closely. definitely an awesome song regardless of how one wants to interpret, i wish there were more stuff like this. |
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