I think much like another song “Anti-Matter” (that's also on the same album as this song), this one is also is inspired by a horrifying van crash the band experienced on Nov 3, 2022. This, much like the other track, sounds like it's an extension what they shared while huddled in the wreckage, as they helped frontman Garrett Russell stem the bleeding from his head wound while he was under the temporary effects of a concussion. The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath.
Drifting
In the air
Above a cold lake
Is a soul
From an early
Better age
Grasping for
A mystic thought
In vain...but who's to know
Further on lies eternal search
For theories to lift the gate
Only locks are made stronger
And more keys lost as logic fades
In the pool of dreams the water darkens
For the soul that's tired of search
As years pass by
The aura drops
As less and less
Feelings touch
Stupidity
Has won too much
The hopeless soul keeps mating
In the air
Above a cold lake
Is a soul
From an early
Better age
Grasping for
A mystic thought
In vain...but who's to know
Further on lies eternal search
For theories to lift the gate
Only locks are made stronger
And more keys lost as logic fades
In the pool of dreams the water darkens
For the soul that's tired of search
As years pass by
The aura drops
As less and less
Feelings touch
Stupidity
Has won too much
The hopeless soul keeps mating
Lyrics submitted by HungerForMore
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It's about the downfall of humanity, how we dont use logic anymore and make stupid decisions that in the end will fuck us and the earth over. The gate is the answer to a better life for humanity and mankind but it just keeps getting shut tighter with the kinds of decisions we make, it also expels a sense of hopelesness for humanity with lines like "In the Pool of Dreams the water Darkens" "Stupidity Has won too much" "As years pass by The Aura Drops" Basically, he's saying we're fucked as a race, it's too late to fix it.
First Burzum song I heard. My guess is that "the Gate" is the gate to the next life or level of existence.
It's been said that the only way we can cure the human disease is to go back to our primal ways.... participating consciousness with the environment..
That would make sense for Varg, considering how strongly he believes in ancient traditions and customs.
from reading what varg has said about this (and he is somewhat notorious for changing his tune on a whole lot of things) this is the 'theme song' of burzum.
there is no hope because all of the things he believes could make the world worthwhile - magic, the old ways etc - have gone, or never existed. to trivialise it, it kind of seems like the lament of a dungeons and dragons nerd facing the hard reality that orcs and dragons do not exist. the world is not as we might wish it to be.
it's just a good song. i don't care about varg's views because i can't understand a wordd of it. but i love black metal so whatever.
So does anyone understand why Varg thought "The hopeless soul keeps mating" was a better line than "The hopeless soul keeps waiting"? He always complains about Euronymous changing it in the official booklet, but I'm not sure what his original line even means.