| Opeth – The Drapery Falls Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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This will be long, sorry. :) When I first heard this I always pictured it being from a womans perspective. Wich of course most likely isn't the case, since writers often write from their own experiences. But anyways, this gave me a completley diffrent experience and picture of what this song is about. Wich proberly isn't the right one. But still kinda intresting. To me this song is about a woman who lives in an abusive relationship. She is together with a man who on the outside looks like your ordanary innocent man that has a good life. ("Prosperous in your ways") But he is filled with anger from his failures. Wich has created a very dark passenger/personality. This angry sadistic personality sometimes shows, by small outbursts of anger and bad temper. ("Faint flickering of your power") She tries to live by this persons "rules", to avoid the abuse. But this person has no real reason for the abuse other then his own anger and low self esteem. Comming from repeted short commings and failures in his life. His temper is unpredictable. ("Runs a thick tide beneath") This anger makes it impossible for her to reason with him, or to please him. Becuse he will always take his anger out on her. ("This test I can't persist") The real evil and pain come at night when he beats her and rapes her. While laying there night after night withstanding this abuse, being weak hearted and not able to withstand it she shuts down emotionaly to be able to withstand the pain. ("It is the end for the weak at heart always the same A lullaby for the ones who've lost all reeling inside") I picture her laying there while he has his way with her, she sees her own eyes relfect in HIS necklace. And when it's finaly over. She feels empty and emotionless. But also at peace. She falls asleep only to wake up the next morning to the sound of him. And relapse into reality witch is nothing but misery. This is most likely not what the song is about, it's just the feeling I got the first time I heard it. And when I read the lyrics I could easly fit them into my interpretation of it all. One of my favorite Opeth songs btw. |
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