There is a light that hits the gloom around
Shows the footprints round this grave
Dried up roses scattered on the mound
Honoring the one engraved

Will ever the morning
Carry away
The souls of those for whom we cry?

Leaving, grieving
Seeking, meeting
Binding, unwinding
Sighing "You"

Still day beneath the sun
Asking you who is the one
And when the day is late
We know who must forever wait

Black procession through the narrow aisles
Another's gone for all to see
Near the site for one who lost his trials
Sleeping 'neath the ground is me

Will ever the morning
Carry away
The souls of those for whom we cry?

Leaving, grieving
Seeking, meeting
Binding, unwinding
Sighing "You"

Still day beneath the sun
Asking you who is the one
And when the day is late
We know who must forever wait


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Still Day Beneath the Sun Lyrics as written by Mikael Lars Akerfeldt

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    these coments all make sence, but i wana share my point of view even though its kinda the same.... i think this song represents a lost spirit... a close one, a loved one too..... it shows the feelings that a person might feel when he/she has lost someone soooo close....how ppl live in his/her own sad, griefing and melancholic world after loosing someone so special....... a song for a dead person... when my b/f died i dedicated this song to him in the radio...... also "to bid u farewell" for opeth.... may he RIP.... and the person who opeth wrote this song for......

    \m/ metal is forever... someday metal will be all that there is.... LUMA a.k.a the metal goddess, princess of darkness and the ruler of all that is evil....

    Luma.Odaton April 07, 2007   Link

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