This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Between the lies, our dead language tongues
Before the dawns, our hearts they shall hunt
The smell of blood excites the nostrils
At first cut, the sanguinary worship of red
Spraying punctures, a sight so divine
Clutching her carcass, face frozen in time
A distorted dialect for the draining of veins
To the flooding of bed sheets with sick crimson rain
A warped diction of scriptures befouled
Traditions steeped within disgraces reviled
Father, unholy one, to your night realm, we bow
Nocturnal majesty, sworn to black we'll always be
Damnation's diction, a deadly disclosure
Our poisons in their goblets drip
How perfectly hideous, so eloquently scribed
Each scripture so skillfully sick
Parchments scabbed over with plasmatic prose
Prophesize permanent night
The words of sheer blackness paint ebony my soul
And bestow me with infernal might
A warped diction of scriptures befouled
Traditions steeped within disgraces reviled
Father, unholy one, to your night realm we bow
Nocturnal majesty, sworn to black we'll always be
Hatred and persistence destined to see
A complete eclipse of that hated sphere, the sun
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Enraptured, I have become unholy
Night's arms welcome me
Nocturnal majesty, sworn to black we'll always be
Hatred and persistence, destined to see
A complete eclipse of that hated sphere, the sun
Before the dawns, our hearts they shall hunt
The smell of blood excites the nostrils
At first cut, the sanguinary worship of red
Spraying punctures, a sight so divine
Clutching her carcass, face frozen in time
A distorted dialect for the draining of veins
To the flooding of bed sheets with sick crimson rain
A warped diction of scriptures befouled
Traditions steeped within disgraces reviled
Father, unholy one, to your night realm, we bow
Nocturnal majesty, sworn to black we'll always be
Damnation's diction, a deadly disclosure
Our poisons in their goblets drip
How perfectly hideous, so eloquently scribed
Each scripture so skillfully sick
Parchments scabbed over with plasmatic prose
Prophesize permanent night
The words of sheer blackness paint ebony my soul
And bestow me with infernal might
A warped diction of scriptures befouled
Traditions steeped within disgraces reviled
Father, unholy one, to your night realm we bow
Nocturnal majesty, sworn to black we'll always be
Hatred and persistence destined to see
A complete eclipse of that hated sphere, the sun
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The Black Dahlia Murder
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The Black Dahlia Murder
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By the light unspoken
This language of brutality
Enraptured, I have become unholy
Night's arms welcome me
Nocturnal majesty, sworn to black we'll always be
Hatred and persistence, destined to see
A complete eclipse of that hated sphere, the sun
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Clearrrllyyy by nocturnal majesty he means a black dude thats really cool to him. Sworn to black well always be is a reference to how hes just tryin to make it out there in the gangsta world, even tho hes white.
"The words of sheer blackness paint ebony my soul and bestow me with infernal might."
Words of sheer blackness refers to the majestys use of ebonics, or "Negro Babble". Paint ebony my soul means the african americanism is spreading throughout is body. And bestow me with infernal might refers to how black people are commonly feared, making the feel mighty and strong, which is what he is experiencing throughout the course of the song.
Hahhaha jk put too much thought into that... fuckin brutal song one of my all time favorites \m/
oh sorry if i offended anyone haha didnt mean any of that..nahh jk i meant it. =D
ahaahahhaha. I like brettryan's interpretation..... clever. lol fuckin great song though. 2nd or 3rd best song on the album...
It has something to do with a pagan or satanic ritual that involves a dead body.
The vocals on here kill. This is by far one of the darkest songs I've ever listened to. It sounds like someone being throw into hell and the gates trapping them in.
don't bother yourself son, it's about vampires :P
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It is indeed about vampires. However I like MyOwnBlood's idea about a ritual, so I think this song could be about the resurrection of Dracula, like in Castlevania.
This song is freaking awesome. I agree with MyOwnBlood, on the vocals too.
w00t.
god fucking damn, this song is so metal. and myownblood has it right - the vocals are fucking br00tal. one of my new fav TBDM songs (besides miasma, stat ape, funeral thirst, my horror cosmic... actually i love every tbdm song ;D)
I like the whole Castlevania thing too (Vampires, do I sense a theme?) What A Horrible Night To Have A Curse is not only an awesome song, but when I realized it was from Castlevania 2, I was like wow. I love these boys even more now.
pretty sick vocals on this song man! this song owns! that audio clip at the end of the song is from the movie "Monster Squad" it's a quote that Dracula says in that movie..pretty cool movie..you guys should check it out if you already havn't, pretty old movie but its cool.
"Between the lines of dead language tongues, before the dawn our hearts they shall hunt. The smell of blood excites the nostrils at first cut. The sanguinary worship of red spraying punctures a sight so divine.
Clutching her carcass, a face frozen in time. A distorted dialect for the draining of veins to the flooding of bedsheets with sick crimson rain. A warped diction of scriptures befouled, traditions steeped within disgraces reviled."
Mmmm, tasty figurative language. This song is Pretty Metal. Even Dethklok would have to agree.
Fuck, Deathklok's got nothing on TBDM
Fuck, Deathklok's got nothing on TBDM
So dark, amazing. This band and their intensity has helped me through so much. This is about vampires, no doubt. LONG LIVE TBDM!