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A Dark Congregation Lyrics
A dark congregation
Of familiar faces
Gathered around the quiet earth
A red rose
Fell upon the soft snow
Prayers were whispered so slow
From our mouths
Our breath rose in the cold, like a hundred souls escaping
Save me, I'm swallowed by the guilt of this (You're gone)
Sleeping in the dust
We will not let time erase us
We are surrounded
By all of the quiet
Sleepers inside the quiet earth
A fear that
I cannot shape, you
Dared to kiss the face
Of the night
Our lips were cold as clay, we couldn't speak anyway
Save me, I'm swallowed by the guilt of this (You're gone)
Sleeping in the dust
We will not let time erase us
Our breath rose in the cold, like a hundred souls
We, we are alone
I know you're gone
Save me, I'm swallowed by the guilt of this
You're gone
Sleeping in the dust
We will not let time erase us
Of familiar faces
Gathered around the quiet earth
A red rose
Fell upon the soft snow
Prayers were whispered so slow
From our mouths
Sleeping in the dust
We will not let time erase us
By all of the quiet
Sleepers inside the quiet earth
A fear that
I cannot shape, you
Dared to kiss the face
Of the night
Sleeping in the dust
We will not let time erase us
I know you're gone
You're gone
Sleeping in the dust
We will not let time erase us
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love.
i think the meaning is pretty obvious -- losing someone and wishing there were something you could have done to stop it.
this is going to sound really weird. i don't know, it kind of reminds me of someone who had a fling with someone who's taken or married or whatever and they feel really guilty, but at the same time, they don't want that thing they had--whatever it was--to be forgotten.
even though it's very obviously about death and funerals, i still consider my view of it, i guess.
A woman is at her lover's funeral, and she recalls memories and her possible future. I like it, it has an interesting mood to it.
The way I picture it, the guy from We Intertwined and the girl from A Dark Congregation met together, and he was incredibly attracted to her. He then gets obsessed and follows her to her house. For some reason I picture it's snowing, instead of raining, probably because of the relation to the earlier song.
It's about how people felt at a funeral of a loved one.
I believe that the narrator of this is the same girl that the narrator of 'we intertwined' dreams of. I do not think the person she is singing of (the male narrator of the other songs on the album) literally died, but metaphorically died to the world when she left him. Perhaps now that she left him she feels guilty for in a sense killing him (he no longer really lives his life, but rather sleeps to dream of her). Although they are no longer together, she does not wish to forget the love they had, nor will he cease to remember their relationship in his dreams('we will not let time erase us.')
I'm thinking that this is about Eileen. THe song on the first record was about her actual death, and this song is about the aftermath, and how Greta felt having to deal with the loss of her friend after the inital shock.
2nd favorite song. It's just amazng.
this is about attending a friend's funeral, and she feels that she was the cause of her friend's death. most of the song is just a description of the cemetary where the funeral was held.
I imagine that this song is picturing a bunch of family members and friends, all gathered around a fresh grave at a funeral of someone they loved. It's snowing; everyone is cold and speechless. They all are hoping it's a bad dream.