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Porphyria's Lover Lyrics
I feel the rain brush past my knees
as i kneel by your body, as i kneel by your dead body
your stare pierces me from beneath the leaves
i look up to the sky and i'll wait with you forever
and i'll wait until the sky burns away for you to wake
the sun hides behind the hills
what we love will destroy us
your skin looks so pale
the moonlight christens your body
i'm too young to die but i'd die for you tonight
because there's feelings left, there's always more.
as i kneel by your body, as i kneel by your dead body
i look up to the sky and i'll wait with you forever
and i'll wait until the sky burns away for you to wake
the sun hides behind the hills
your skin looks so pale
the moonlight christens your body
i'm too young to die but i'd die for you tonight
because there's feelings left, there's always more.
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the riff at 1:28 into this song is sick! awesome song
Agreed.
Agreed.
So is the one at 3:55 and the awesome build up to it. Heck, this song just is pure awesome all the way through.
So is the one at 3:55 and the awesome build up to it. Heck, this song just is pure awesome all the way through.
pkll is sick. they got ross back didn't they?
shitttt. too bad they broke up!
A correction for accuracy (how it is actually sung)
I feel the rain brush past my knees as i kneel by your dead Body, as i kneel by your dead
They broke up?
The lyrics to this are amazing imo. It's not really a thing you can relate to, but it's so brilliantly done - like late victorian gothic poetry, and obviously the name is refrencing 'Porpyria's Lover' By Robert Browning. I'm not sure if it's trying to metaphor to anything but its most plain outline is that it's someone's total despair in someone they love dying, and how they would do and try to do anything to take that person back, but obviously they can't. Very different from the original poem Porpyria's Lover though, that's someone killing someone that they love so they can never leave them..
The lyrics to this are amazing imo. It's not really a thing you can relate to, but it's so brilliantly done - like late victorian gothic poetry, and obviously the name is refrencing 'Porpyria's Lover' By Robert Browning. I'm not sure if it's trying to metaphor to anything but its most plain outline is that it's someone's total despair in someone they love dying, and how they would do and try to do anything to take that person back, but obviously they can't. Very different from the original poem Porpyria's Lover though, that's someone killing someone that they love so they can never leave them..
Yes, I noticed this song name and had to listen to (as an English grad student) and "Porphyria's Lover" being one of my all time favorite poems as well as the first poem I ever memorized (granted it's quite long). No offense to the song or the band but it really doesn't do the poem justice in the least.
Yes, I noticed this song name and had to listen to (as an English grad student) and "Porphyria's Lover" being one of my all time favorite poems as well as the first poem I ever memorized (granted it's quite long). No offense to the song or the band but it really doesn't do the poem justice in the least.
Their best song, Hands down.