Warren wanted a Beach Boys thing for this one, and Carl Wilson and Billy Hinsche came in, with Carl arranging the vocal parts. The other harmony vocalists (credited as the "Gentlemen Boys") were Jackson Browne, J.D. Souther, Zevon's longtime backers Waddy Wachtel and Jorge Calderon, and Linda Rondstadt/Stone Poneys guitarist Kenny Edwards.
Baptized with the perfect name
The doubting one by heart
Alone, without himself
War between him and the day
Need someone to blame
In the end, little he can do alone
You believe but what you see
You receive but what you give
Caress the one
The Never-Fading rain
In your heart
To tears of snow-white sorrow
Caress the one
The hiding amaranth
In a land of the daybreak
Apart from the wandering pack
In this brief flight of time
We reach for the ones, whoever dare
You believe but what you see
You receive but what you give
Caress the one
The Never-Fading rain
In your heart
To tears of snow-white sorrow
Caress the one
The hiding amaranth
In a land of the daybreak
Reaching, searching
For something untouched
Hearing voices of the Never-Fading calling
Caress the one
The Never-Fading rain
In your heart
To tears of snow-white sorrow
Caress the one
The hiding amaranth
In a land of the daybreak
The doubting one by heart
Alone, without himself
War between him and the day
Need someone to blame
In the end, little he can do alone
You believe but what you see
You receive but what you give
Caress the one
The Never-Fading rain
In your heart
To tears of snow-white sorrow
Caress the one
The hiding amaranth
In a land of the daybreak
Apart from the wandering pack
In this brief flight of time
We reach for the ones, whoever dare
You believe but what you see
You receive but what you give
Caress the one
The Never-Fading rain
In your heart
To tears of snow-white sorrow
Caress the one
The hiding amaranth
In a land of the daybreak
Reaching, searching
For something untouched
Hearing voices of the Never-Fading calling
Caress the one
The Never-Fading rain
In your heart
To tears of snow-white sorrow
Caress the one
The hiding amaranth
In a land of the daybreak
Lyrics submitted by IluvTarja, edited by Pierrepont
Amaranth Lyrics as written by Tuomas Lauri Johannes Holopainen
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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1) I don't think the villagers burned the two boys, I think they dragged them out 2) Blackchimera, I think your logic is flawed in that a "hiding amaranth in the land of daybreak" wouldn't be viewed as bad. Maybe that's just my opinion.
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Great line. They're talking about non-believers. In the case of the music video, the villagers believed that the angel was evil, differant, strange, scary. That's what they saw. In the end, they recieved what they gave. They burned the angel, so they lost her. That's actually a highly literal example. I like it.
Here's what I want to know. In the video, the Angel appeared to have had her eyes gouged out. That's undoubtedly symbolic. Additionally, she was wearing pure white. Also symbolic (99.9% of the time white = purity or goodness or refers to purity or goodness ironically. In this case I'm betting it was the former).
The amaranth is representitive of the rain, which is in turn representitive of sorrow. The amaranth never withers, the rain never fades, the rain is "tears of snow white sorrow". Why should we caress sorrow? To get over it? Because we need it?
Why is the sorrow "snow-white"? Does that mean its unadulterated sorrow? Does it mean that the sorrow is for a pure reason? Sorrow for something that is pure?
I think what it's saying is true sorrow can only come from those that have pure hearts or it could be saying that the loss of purity or innocence is truly something sorrowful
also i forgot to add that sorrow should always be embraced because if we dont have sorrow we'll never know what true joy could be. Also Sorrow is one of the purist emotions oyu can feel