Let me taste
Let me feel
I need to know what you keep inside
No need to speak
Just let it be
Carry out this wish for me let nothing interfere
Rise to submission
I'm still beneath in the soil
Discard your clothes
Let loose your hair
We're intertwined forever and has always been
Say the word
And I'll depart
Upon your lips dwells nothing but the meaning of my cause
And so comes the dark
Vibrant as ever before
Flowers already withered
In this endless winter of souls
Outside in the park
The days move along
And nothing ever changes
They have nothing on us
But we've always knew
That nothing ever changes
Rise to submission
I'm still beneath in the soil
This is ours alone
Feeding off the warmth
Lured out from the inside
Depending on the life blood
Silently
Whispering
Move in me and set me free
Let me feel
I need to know what you keep inside
No need to speak
Just let it be
Carry out this wish for me let nothing interfere
Rise to submission
I'm still beneath in the soil
Discard your clothes
Let loose your hair
We're intertwined forever and has always been
Say the word
And I'll depart
Upon your lips dwells nothing but the meaning of my cause
And so comes the dark
Vibrant as ever before
Flowers already withered
In this endless winter of souls
Outside in the park
The days move along
And nothing ever changes
They have nothing on us
But we've always knew
That nothing ever changes
Rise to submission
I'm still beneath in the soil
This is ours alone
Feeding off the warmth
Lured out from the inside
Depending on the life blood
Silently
Whispering
Move in me and set me free
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By the Pain I See in Others Lyrics as written by Mikael Lars Akerfeldt
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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In my opinion this is about a demonic posession or the fight for sanity. It is about a man who is ruled by his dark deeds and his inner demon who took control of him. At first he fights him but then finally accepts his fate and agrees to it. He himself feels superior about the other humans around him. The most important thing in this song is the difference in the two or three voices that are used. But I'll point that out:
The Inner Demon:
"Let me taste
Let me feel
I need to know what you keep inside
No need to speak
Just let it be
Carry out this wish for me let nothing interfere "
-He gives the orders and commands the guy to do as he says with no interferance. He knows all the inner deeds and wishes of the guy and represents all the bad things that we keep in mind that eventuall consume us.
The Guy:
"Rise to submission
I'm still beneath in the soil "
-He fights for sanity, clinging to the false believe that this inner demon is no part of him. He says, that it is still him who is doing all the things and that he is not commanded by the demon.
The Inner Demon:
"Discard your clothes
Let loose you hair
We're intertwined forever and have always been"
-Discarding the clothes means to reveal what the guy has beneath the sings you see from the outside. He orders the man to look at himself and take away all that hides his dark wishes and needs. The demon says that they - the guy and the demon - are one and the same person, just parts of his personality that he kept hidden.
"Say the word
And I'll depart
Upon your lips dwells nothing but the meaning of my cause "
-The demon says that he will leave if the guy wishes to, only to show him that the man actually does not want the demon to go away. With everything the man says he confirms the claims of the demon, that both are the same person.
The Inner Demon:
"And so comes the dark
Vibrant as ever before
Flowers already withered
In this endless winter of souls "
-The man has accepted his fate, his dark sides and seems to welcome him. For him and his sanity, or his humanity, the endless winter of souls has come to consume the warmth. "Vibrant as ever before" actually says that he, the demon, has always been there and will always be.
The Man:
"Outside in the park
The days move along
And nothing ever changes
They have nothing on us
And we've always knew
That nothing ever changes "
-The man who has now accepted his fate walks around and watches the other humans, looking down on them. Everything is as it should be, as it always has been
The Man and the demon:
"Rise to submission
I'm still beneath in the soil
This is ours alone
Feeding of the warmth
Lured out from inside
Depending on the life blood"
-Despite his knowledge he still clings to the believe that it is actually him which is, if you dont count the splitted personality, indeed true. Still the demon commands him to spill blood - see it metaphorically if you want to - because that's exactly what they both need. This dark deeds then have lured the demon out from the inside.
The rest explains itself I think...
The song and the album is actually not about a serial killer but about the crack in human minds. It is about dark deeds and splitted personalities, about all the failure in men which is already pointed out in Blackwater Park and then is continued in Ghost Reveries. Akerfeldt himself said in the end of an interview, that he always wanted to do something about demonic possession and how this refers to the personality of men, just like he explained in this song.
The key to the song is in my opinion the changes of voices that stand for the man and his demon. The part with the clean vocals represents the unity between those two faction and how he has accepted his inner demon.
This interpretation goes very well with the titel of the song, at least in my opinion...
Over all I really love the song if you dont count the inversed part in the end of it.
correct me if I'm wrong
Deliverance I think is about the psyche of a serial killer. Wreath describes how is is slowly put into insanity by factors of his past, in fact the blissful singing could represent a symptom of multiple personalitities. Deliverance is the Killer going on the rampage, with his other side saying "I'm good" even though the protagonist know it's eveil. A fair judgement is regret about slaying someone close to him, maybe someone trying to help. "Master's apprentices" is him basically giving up, and letting the other side take over. "By the pain I see in others" is Shows how the alternate persona WILL NOT STOP!!! And the carnivaly sounding part hints he is an attention to detail, and is hard to catch because of that. The eerie sounding part at the end is the oblivion that the protagonist is in and will reside in forever. This is one of many interpretations, but many more are plausible, simply because Akerfeldt is such a great lyricist.
Soothing trance
Colors fade
And disappear
Ethereal light
Showing me what I can do without
Fading away
And leaving
Long for sleep
Closer now
Lead the way into death
"By the pain i see in others"
The first clue is in the title, The person in the song see's all the pain in others and wonders what is the cause for so many people to be so unhappy, even the people who seem to have it all, like fame or money, are no happier than the rest .
"Let me taste
Let me feel
I need to know what you keep inside
No need to speak
Just let it be
Carry out this wish for me let nothing interfere"
This is the persons soul talking to him.It is telling the person to let it free, to let it have control.
"Rise to submission
I'm still beneath in the soil"
The soul is again saying the ego must surrender as it is still under its control.
"Discard your clothes"
The soul is telling the person to discard he's subtefuges(clothes),to stop hiding.
"Let loose you hair"
This line is telling him to stop trying to control everything
"We're intertwined forever and have always been"
this line is pretty self explanatory
"Say the word
And I'll depart
Upon your lips dwells nothing but the meaning of my cause "
This is the soul saying that the ego has complete controll over it.
"And so comes the dark
Vibrant as ever before"
Then something bad happens to the person to make him drive he's soul even further down.
"Flowers already withered
In this endless winter of souls"
the flowers signify happiness & it is a winter of souls as everybody ignores there soul.
"Outside in the park
The days move along
And nothing ever changes"
This is simply a description of how things stay the same, it may also be a reference to the song Blackwater park.
"They have nothing on us
And we've always knew
That nothing ever changes
Rise to submission
I'm still beneath in the soil
This is ours alone"
The plural is used here as both the ego and soul make up the person and how this life is theirs alone.
"Feeding off the warmth
Lured out from inside
Depending on the life blood"
This is explaining how both the ego and the soul rely for life from the person, they need he's warmth and life blood.& they arise from inside the persons mind to control that mind.
"Silently
Whispering
Move in me and set me free."
This is the person saying he doesn't want hes soul to be restrained anymore, but he is whispering it as he is unsure ,he's ego has made him doubt himself.