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In My Time of Need Lyrics
I can't see the meaning of this life I'm leading
I try to forget you as you forgot me
This time there is nothing left for you to take, this
is goodbye
<b>Chorus:</b>
Summer is miles and miles away
And no one would ask me to stay
And I should contemplate this change
To ease the pain
And I should step out of the rain
turn away
Close to ending it all, I am drifting through the
stages
Of the rapture born within this loss
Thoughts of death inside, tear me apart from the core
of my soul
<b>Chorus</b>
At times the dark's fading slowly
But it never sustains
Would someone watch over me
In my time of need
<b>Chorus</b>
I try to forget you as you forgot me
This time there is nothing left for you to take, this
is goodbye
Summer is miles and miles away
And no one would ask me to stay
To ease the pain
And I should step out of the rain
turn away
stages
Of the rapture born within this loss
Thoughts of death inside, tear me apart from the core
of my soul
But it never sustains
Would someone watch over me
In my time of need
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Ahh, I'm so glad this site is up again. :) Anyway, here is what I got from this song. This may not be EXACTLY what the songwriter meant, but I can relate to the lyrics on a very personal level. The lyrics "Summer is miles and miles away, and no one would ask me to stay" are the ones that struck a chord with me. The person is depressed, but is doesn't really want to kill himself at first. He thinks, or hopes, that perhaps he may have a reason to live. Someone might miss him if he died. Someone may want him to still be around. However, to his dismay and disappointment, no one seemed to care. "No would ask me to stay." Sad, sad song, but I like it. It's georgous. I love Opeth! They're beautiful whether they're heavy or soft. :)
really agree with you... exactally what i thought of this song....
really agree with you... exactally what i thought of this song....
personally i worry about mike writing these lyrics. i trust him not to commit suicide. but just so he knows, he would be SO missed if he commited suicide.
he is god. opeth rule. they invoke true emotion through musicianship coupled with creative poerty and wordsmanship.
im new to this but ill give it a shot. it seems hes close to suicide and just saddened and depressed. he needs someone to either help him change his mind and talk him out of suicide or something to guide him to heaven or a peaceful place when he does commit suicide.. but im an idiot :\
I'm new to this site and this is exactly my first try.I love the entorouge of this song and I think of that as a postmodern song cause the audience soddenly find himself in the middle of issue (the suicide).
I also am a complete Opeh fanatic, mainly because i can relate to the lyrics better then i've ever been able to with any other band, well i just got out of a two year relationship recently, so more and more of these songs are making sense to me, but hey they make me happy :D, and i just had a school concert and did to bid you farewell and demon of the fall :D:D, hehe anyways, what this song means to me is that his "someone", girlfriend, wife, whoever, has broken his heart, and the pain seems to have not been the first time "This time there is nothing left for you to take, this is goodbye" there's no more left in him for this complete (for lack of better words) bitch, to take from him, he's broken, and suicide sounds like the only way to stop the heartache, but i agree with Chrissy, he does feel there might be someone, he has hope to live for someone, even though he probebly was only alive for the one he loved, i can understand that right now hehe, "And I should contemplate this change To ease the pain" he is contimplating it, it "should" not commit suicide, so he knows better, but the pain is unbearable, and if anyone has ever been in the guys position in a seriouse breakup, the only [erson you want in that time of need is the girl you love, and if she's not there anymore the emptiness is anuf to kill you.
yeah deedoo's got it right.. about that last part he said.. it sucks even more if there person always told you they'd want to stay friends... and then one day things are ok and trying to work it out and then after it just seems as if they're trying to pretend as if you never existed.... goddamn.. it hurts like hell...
I think this is about someone lost in a deep depression who wants to see their way out but feel no one else around them cares enough to help them.
chrissy, i don't know if that's what the songwriter meant... but that's exactly what i feel about the song.
My girlfriend of over two years just left me last week, and for my "best friend" no less. This song is meaning a lot to me right now. I just found out last night she is going out with my best friend, and all I want to do is die. The first verse is certainly a good summary of how I feel. "Would someone watch over me, In my time of need." That part makes me feel pretty bad since I don't have my friend to watch over me. We have always been there for each other before, but I don't think a true friend what have done this to me. Opeth makes me feel better and worse at the same time, but for good reasons, know what I mean? I feel terrible and am having trouble put it all into focus, but I can listen to a song for someone who has already been there. It makes it easier to go on, kind of. I guess I'll find out soon enough.
Hey I could be wrong though, it might be about a girl that he doesn't like and he want to kill himself. LOLOLOLOLOLLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL