| Opeth – Eternal Rains Will Come Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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I was raised on christian faith and couldn´t avoid think about some "pale" references to Christianity and Middle Ages on the concept of the album, mostly from a first or second person POV. I think the idea is to present a in a fresh way a darker, raw and human interpretation to some bible passages and characters and also to present (christian) contemporary religion as a "failed state", which has lost a lot of its escence and hadn´t the strenght enough to avoid some of the crimes, inequalities and realities we are still living. Some of this even could have been born within its institution. I think all of this behavior within Christianity (and that it may be extended to other religions) is something exclusively human, it has nothing to do with God, you simply don´t need religion to reach him if that´s an objective to you, in my opinion. I respect anyone´s right to believe in what he or she wants, and also expect nobody to be offended with this ideas, at the end is just an imaginary interpretation from an album that I just fucking love. In this line of though, Eternal Rains Will Come can easily seen as Noah´s Flood seen within the eyes of the "sinners", the eyes of those people who were not as good, as smart or as lucky as Noah. The lyrics are somewhat tragic, with some naivety, regret and suffering from this people who couldn´t save its loved ones, not even themselves. A beautiful, interesting and horrid story to be told from this perspective, even they were "bad people". At the end of the day, we mortals tend to be "bad". |
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| Opeth – Eternal Rains Will Come Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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I was raised on christian faith and couldn´t avoid think about some "pale" references to Christianity and Middle Ages on the concept of the album, mostly from a first or second person POV. I think the idea is to present a in a fresh way a darker, raw and human interpretation to some bible passages and characters and also to present (christian) contemporary religion as a "failed state", which has lost a lot of its escence and hadn´t the strenght enough to avoid some of the crimes, inequalities and realities we are still living. Some of this even could have been born within its institution. I think all of this behavior within Christianity (and that it may be extended to other religions) is something exclusively human, it has nothing to do with God, you simply don´t need religion to reach him if that´s an objective to you, in my opinion. I respect anyone´s right to believe in what he or she wants, and also expect nobody to be offended with this ideas, at the end is just an imaginary interpretation from an album that I just fucking love. In this line of though, Eternal Rains Will Come can easily seen as Noah´s Flood seen within the eyes of the "sinners", the eyes of those people who were not as good, as smart or as lucky as Noah. The lyrics are somewhat tragic, with some naivety, regret and suffering from this people who couldn´t save its loved ones, not even themselves. A beautiful, interesting and horrid story to be told from this perspective, even they were "bad people". At the end of the day, we mortals tend to be "bad". |
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