A Trace of Blood Lyrics
Going home to those I miss
Safe and sound
Weeks of exile turn to bliss
But there's something in her voice
when she is calling me
A trace of blood to lead me through roads of agony
With blood taste in my mouth
and clouds before my eyes,
I kneel beside the bed where my bleeding dryad lies
Nausea wakes me up at dawn
Hopes are found
Dissected, turned and then withdrawn
A chair of steel and wire
Her legs are open wide
Helpless in myself I stand there cold beside
The doctors stay away
Leave us with this dismay
To see the colours of a miracle fade and turn to grey
flow so sadly, bringing you
Our dreams pour into a cold tray
Two young souls in misery
Missing you
I was to live for you
I lost the will to live at all the day you came
It'll never be the same, but I will love you just the same
You were to be the first, how wonderful
Now I will always fear to hope again
so joyfully to our child there deep within
Or of when she called to me to tell me cheerfully
that she had seen your shape on a hospital screen
And of nurses being concerned
that you never moved or turned
Too late we see the warnings
Too late we learn!!
Except the trace of blood
that's deeply scarred into my eyes to fill your place
It'll never be the same, but I will love you just the same
I was prepared to be your father
How can I ever prepare for that again?
always leading back to you
Hollow years of damming that flood
Two young souls in misery
Missing you... missing you...
Oh my god, I've only noticed just today that this song isn't just about her having a miscarriage. He's directly RESPONSIBLE for the miscarriage. I don't know how I didn't notice this before...
"Touching ground Going home to those I miss Safe and sound Weeks of exile turn to bliss"
The 'weeks of exile turning to bliss' is sexual inactivity due to the pregnancy. They decide to be passionate for the first time in weeks even though she is pregnant.
"But there's something in her voice When she is calling me A trace of blood to lead me Through roads of agony With blood taste in my mouth"
The 'calling me' is her crying out in pleasure, but he notices that there is also something wrong. He notices the trace of blood coming from her, and he has the taste of blood in his mouth due to cunnilingus.
I think he just came home after a long time away.. He was happy that he'll see his wife and make love to her..He knew she was pregnant because he says ''going home to THOSE i miss.. But while they were making love I guess she started to bleed., doesn't mean and I dont think he was responsible..
I think he just came home after a long time away.. He was happy that he'll see his wife and make love to her..He knew she was pregnant because he says ''going home to THOSE i miss.. But while they were making love I guess she started to bleed., doesn't mean and I dont think he was responsible..
"Blood taste in my mouth". He was going down on her.
"Blood taste in my mouth". He was going down on her.
This song is about a miscarriage and the father's thoughts afterwards
I totally agree and it's a sad song but is Remedy Lane a concept? Fandago talks about a lonely dude and a slut and everyone knows some stds don't help births very much if you know what I mean.
Remedy Lane is a concept album, it's about how love and sex, and how the two can be tangled up in one another.
This is my favourite song with Pain of salvation, it's so sad.
this is based on daniel's experiences, during the recording of entropia ('97 or '98), his wife suffered a mis-carriage, so daniel wrote this song...and since it fit with the theme of the album, he used it
in addition, the dryad he refers to in the first verse is the 'dryad of the woods'...in other words, his wife.
This song is about a baby, getting born dead; "I never knew your name.." Even before they had thought out a name for it, it was dead already.
Almost. Not a stillbirth, but a miscarriage.
Almost. Not a stillbirth, but a miscarriage.
"During the recording of 'Entropia' (our first album) me and my wife had a miscarriage and it was very hard on us. It was one of the worst experiences of my life. It was not the loss of a tiny organic something, to me it was the loss of several lives - the child and the life he/she would have had and the lives me and my wife would have had. History took a sharp turn for us that day and I cannot leave it behind altogether. That mix of joy, grief and anger is also found in the music and the lyric of the song I think. A struggle."
Definitely my favorite PoS song. I love how Daniel combines lugubrious lyrics with an upbeat melody. And the guitar solo is simply wonderful.