Deliverance

This song is about Mikael jizzing all over people.

The main character here takes someone he cares for to a body of water and drowns them. Perhaps he believes he is somehow doing something good and setting this person free.

"All over now, forgotten why I needed this Standing down disappear into the obscure Resting days waiting for new disease Biding time locked inside insanity"

The deed is done, but he's forgotten why he needed to kill. The ordeal has scarred him and eventually drives him into insanity. This murder is always burning at him, probably thrusting him unto a state of regret and depression.

The first verse could be about some huge idea that's suddenly comes over him. "From nothing to a life code" -- this idea has given him a sense of purpose, creating some need that drives him to kill this person he loves.

If any of you have seen the movie Inception, this insight makes me think of the part Leo Dicaprio's wife kills herself..

It could be taken as thoughts that repeat themselves compulsively in your head over and over. ones that you know are seperate from reality but are illusions that you dont know how to defuse. they could be suffocating through someone else and cope through hatered. they then seek revenge blindly to feed their own self destruction as their means of coping.

Fun song :) good to play on guitar too. and yes it is about drowning someone

I think one of the most important questions to ask about this song is not what is it about, but why.

Why would the narrator drown somebody? Just look at the third and fourth verses: "received no warning/from nothing to a life code". A life code? As in...pregnancy, perhaps?

One could make many interpretations of this song (and, indeed, all songs by Opeth). In this case, I feel like the narrator is talking about a woman who has become pregnant, and so he drowns her. Who's child? His own, perhaps, but more likely somebody else's - why else kill her?

What a dark, beautiful, haunting, epic song. It single-handedly got me into the band.

This song is about Satan.

the devil guides the day tells me what to say pours himself inside and snuffs the final light

deliverance thrown back at me

deliverance laughing at me

Perhaps the narrator is insane or actually under the control of Satan. I think the life code part means electrical impulses from his brain to his muscles(life code). Nothing, then he starts to think about killing and can't resist.

all over now forgotten why i needed this standing down disappear into the obscure resting days waiting for new disease biding time looked inside insanity

Waiting for new disease to me means that he is waiting for the urge to kill to come again.

Mike has said it himself, this song is about a movie of the same name, which Burt Reynolds stars in. The movie is basically about a camping trip that goes awry and somebody starts drowing the people or something to that effect. It's basically famous for a scene where one male rapes another, I believe

i love the song, it's really great songwriting but i dont really get the lyrics.

does he metaphorically refer to a relationship or ist this just chliche deathmetal stuff about sin, darkness and ..death without any deeper sense behind it?

It looks like hes talking about drowning someone (face down beneath the waterline/gazing into the deep); the "piercing sounds" would be the victim's screams. Once the person is killed, all thats left of him/her are the scars he/she left on the narrator.

Salvation for the victim comes being murdered, and in commiting the murder, the narrator has lost his deliverance.

When I saw them live, they said it was about Satan.