"Silverflame" as written by and Tim Christensen....
Sorrow hides under the water
Sorrow is my only friend
Sorrow stands beside the doorway
And sorrow needs a helping hand
Girl in a glass box dressed in white
Happy enough to commit suicide
She said that silver's meant to burn forever
Sleeping forever in a bubble of blue
Would you like to see her point of view?
She said that silver's meant to burn forever
Forever
Say my name silverflame take control
Of my heart of my mind and of my soul
What a shame silverflame that you can't burn forever
And in the garden is a cheap hotel
Only invited if your thing went well
She said that silver's meant to burn forever
Sleeping forever in a bubble of blue
Would you like to see her point of view?
She said that silver's meant to burn forever
Forever
Say my name silverflame take control
Of my heart of my mind and of my soul
What a shame silverflame that you can't burn forever
Sorrow is my only friend
Sorrow stands beside the doorway
And sorrow needs a helping hand
Girl in a glass box dressed in white
Happy enough to commit suicide
She said that silver's meant to burn forever
Sleeping forever in a bubble of blue
Would you like to see her point of view?
She said that silver's meant to burn forever
Forever
Say my name silverflame take control
Of my heart of my mind and of my soul
What a shame silverflame that you can't burn forever
And in the garden is a cheap hotel
Only invited if your thing went well
She said that silver's meant to burn forever
Sleeping forever in a bubble of blue
Would you like to see her point of view?
She said that silver's meant to burn forever
Forever
Say my name silverflame take control
Of my heart of my mind and of my soul
What a shame silverflame that you can't burn forever
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"Silver Flame" is slang for the tubes of tin foil you use to smoke heroin with.
Keeping this in mind, let's see how the lyrics could could be interpreted:
"Say my name silverflame take control
Of my heart of my mind and my soul
What a shame silverflame that you can't burn
forever"
This part refers to the substance taking over the mind/body/soul of the user and them wishing to stay high forever.
"Girl in a glassbox dressed in white" Personification of the drug itself maybe? Could be...
The repeating word "sorrow" in the first stanza of the song, links back to the sensations (down) had by any drug user when they're off the substance/not high.
"sorrow needs a helping hand": thought of relief through "burning the silver flame"/getting over that down by using more.
This is my own interpretation of the lyrics. I might be wrong about the guiding theme, but I'm pretty sure I'm not. ;)
I agree about the meaning of "silverflame", but I think you misunderstood some part of the lyrics. This is my personal opinion and maybe I'm wrong, but I just see it differently.
First of all: "Girl in a glassbox dressed in white, Happy enough to commit suicide", it could be a personification of drug, but, beacuse of lyrics before and after this line, I would rather say that it is referring to a person(maybe real, maybe imaginary...). "Girl in a glassbox"-->By this, he is describing some girl who lives in her own world and "Dressed in white" means she is good/innocent person. This kind of people are often bullied from other people and don't know how to deal with it, and obviously this girl too, so she starts taking drugs, and now she is "Happy enough" to commit suicide.
"She said that silver's meant to burn forever"-->This line shows how sad actually she is, she wants to feel like this forever, just not to feel pain.
As I said, it could be just a personification of drug, but because of this line:
"Sleeping forever in a bubble of blue", I think it's not. This line actually explains the very first line of the song: "Sorrow hides under the water", now we see why it hides under the watter-->Because girl killed herself by drowning.
The chorus:
"Say my name silverflame take control
Of my heart of my mind and of my soul"
-->Shows us that now, he is sad because girl drowned herself, and now he is taking drugs too. And by this line:
"What a shame silverflame that you can't burn forever"-->He is saying like:"I just don't want to feel this pain".
Since Tim Christensen said once that this song had no meaning to him, i suppose that he is not talking about real girl who commited suicide, but some imaginary girl. I suppose that he was just inspired with how absurd people sometimes function, because, this case can sometimes be seen in the world.
We can't know what he realy wanted to say, and as I said earlier, maybe I'm wrong, but this is how I see this song.
God, that was a mess.
Its soo pretty
I think its about a girl who he refers to as "silverflame" who commits suicide
The "Silverflame" is most likely meant to "burn" her last words "say my name" which most likely is his/hers name, in her soul "take control, of my heart, of my mind and of my soul."
who knows, i do however find it unlikely that HE refers to her as silverflame.
Of course he could be lying, and if he was telling the truth, it has definitely come to tell him a story as well.