Burden

Correct lyrics:

I once upon a time Carried a burden inside I sung a last goodbye A broken rhyme I had underlined There's an ocean of sorrow in you

A sorrow in me

I saw a movement in their eyes That said I no longer knew the way I had given up the ghost A passive mind submit to fear And the wait for redemption at hand

Waiting to fail

Failing again

If death should take me now Count my mistakes and let me through Whisper in my ear You have taken more than we've recieved And the ocean of sorrow is you

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Bloodytea, this album is not a concept album, mikael never said it was. You are trying to make connections which aren't there. People did that as well with the ghost reveries album which wasnt a concept either, but at least with that album it was original intented to be a concept but was later dropped because it didnt work out

and for the people who think this song is about faith. I doubt it since mikael is an atheist. Sweden is one of the most atheistic countries in the world.

The acoustic guitar over the last minute of this song going further and further out of key absolutely blows my mind everytime I hear it

InVegas has got it absolutely correct, Mikael wrote the lyric to this based on a former girlfriend who committed suicide during the recording of "Watershed".

A link to that particular interview. It's in the third part of said interview.

http://www.faceculture.tv/index.php?cnti_key=11758013

Yes I agree InVegasit's about an ex of his who committed suicide and Hessian Peel/Hex Omega is connected to it too. The lyrics clearly are about a suicide and I also know someone who's committed the act as well.

I just watched an interview with Mikael where he said that this was written about someone that he knew that committed suicide. He says he found out when they were in the studio that a girl he used to go out with long ago had killed herself, and the lyrics were written about her. So there you go.

I've been reading all the perspectives and I am not sure I agree with any of them. The idea of the song being about someone commiting suicide is definately interesting but still doesn't make much sense to me. After seeing a few interviews and having a respectable knowledge of the band's history, I honestly think that this song is about Peter Lindgren. I think that Mikael is talking about the dead weight that Peter was to the creative process of the band, and how, regardless of his(Mike's) personal feelings, knows that Peter's departure was/is for the best, and that Peter will eventually realize that he made a mistake,( The ocean of sorrow is/in you). Though also Mike is reluctant and misses the companionship with Peter and desperately wants him back in the band(If death should take me now Count my mistakes and let me through). I don't know, but this seems to make the most sense to me.

Yeah, I just recently saw another newer interview where he let on that Hessian Peel and Hex Omega are about her, too. I don't have the link but it was pretty interesting. He said that the last he had heard about her was that she had had a baby and that he was glad for her, because he was hoping it would force her to get her life in order for the child. Unfortunately, the next he heard about her was that she'd taken her life. He said she was a very complex person, and obviously whatever she went through affected him pretty deeply.