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Wreathed in silence, laid down in shades
Swathed in regrets, deluded astray
Forgotten in half-light, drawn in despair
Soothed in slumber so dreadful and fair

Rending and searing and twisting my dreams
Alone in the gloom with the nightmares unseen

The night has a thousand eyes,
And the day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies
With the dying sun

The mind has a thousand eyes,
And the heart but one:
Yet the light of a whole life dies
When love is done

Worthless the pledges, all vows but lies
Fateful her kisses, where a serpent hides
First beckoned to step from the twilight to glare
Then left in the dark for the demons to share

Only the stars see, only the moon hears

And quietly the water-lilies sigh
Like the last breath of a weary soul
And the weed sway in the dreary waters
Like a girl's dark hair they wave about

And the black stones under my bare feet
Cold and smooth like her milk-white palm
And the silence which falls upon this shore
Resounds now louder than oncoming storm

For all is gone
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Cover art for Drawn To Black lyrics by Insomnium

He lost his lover. How he loves her is amazing. Although he may love her and think of her all the time. He has no meaning of life anymore. Everything reminds him of her.

Finnish stuff is hard to decipher >< But that's what I think it is about.

Cover art for Drawn To Black lyrics by Insomnium

I believe his love left him.. the lines

"Worthless the pledges, all vows but lies Fateful her kisses, where a serpent hides First beckoned to step from the twilight to glare Then left in the dark for the demons to share"

suggest this. He is still completely in love with her and everything around him reminds him of her and the life they had and makes him feel like what he has is worthless without her, meaning of life is gone.

i love how he compares the love of ones like to the earth and the sun. Very well done, paints an very vivid image of how much he wanted her in his life.

"Worthless the pledges, all vows but lies  Fateful her kisses, where a serpent hides  First beckoned to step from the twilight to glare  Then left in the dark for the demons to share"

Worthless the promises, all promises but lies Deadly her kisses, where a serpent hides First lured to step from the peaceful light Then left in the dark for the demons to share

This means all her promises were full of lies she hurt him and brought him out of a peaceful place and abandoned him to be terrorized

Cover art for Drawn To Black lyrics by Insomnium

love of ones life** not like :P

Cover art for Drawn To Black lyrics by Insomnium

I like how he portrays the image of:

"The night has a thousand eyes, And the day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun"

The night having a "thousand eyes" represents all the stars in the night sky, and "the day but one" represents the sun during the daytime. And as the sun goes down its "dying" which makes the light of the world dissappear.I love how they use a lot of personification in this song. You can almost close your eyes and picture what he's talking about.

i took this as the night has a thousand eyes (stars) but then relate it to people, and thousand eyes represents all the women guys check out when they have the one they love. The "night" is the dark side and the day is the good side that stays faithful.

then it ties into the next one which is the mind and a thousand eyes all the thoughts of others, yet the only one you truly want is the one your heart sees.

 
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