This is obsidian
The grip of winter unkind
Devil will follow
Be cast out and sworn to the dark
Take the road where devil's speak
God is dead, God is dead

Throw out the darkness
Inside you, telling you now
Senses corrupted
Controlling a poisonous will
Take the road where devil's speak
God is dead, God is dead

In the corner of my eye
Demon fades from the hole

Led the blind
Searched to find
A pathway to the sun
Saw the signs
Intertwined
Forgave me all my sins
Why, why
Oh, stigmats revealing our vices
And oh, oh, stigmats revealing our vices

God is dead, God is dead


Lyrics submitted by leprosy, edited by darksinthe, silverspawn

The Devil's Orchard Lyrics as written by Mikael Lars Akerfeldt

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    You guys clearly didn't understand sh** about the lyrics. This is clearly about philosophy. More precisely, about philosophers and intellectuals doing the "devil's dirty work", that is, spreading evil ideas that lead people to despair and, ultimately, suicide.

    The hint that the lyrics are about philosophers and intellectuals is on the chorus: "Take the road where devils speak: 'God is dead!'"

    The phrase "God is dead!" is a famous quote by Friederich Nietzsche. Nietzsche warned us that society is getting increasingly secular and its moral values no longer come from religion. Society needs to create new values without God or it will crumble.

    Many atheist philophers that came after Nietzche, like Karl Marx, and later, the Cultural Marxists of the Frankfurt School like Herbert Marcuse, and the French post-modernists like Michel Foucault, advocated that people needed to yield to every desire (including sexual desires), that all stigmas should be destroyed (See, in the lyrics Opeth says "No stigmas revealing our vices"). The purpose of life is then the pursuit of earthly pleasures, with no restraints whatsoever. The lyrics ackowlodge the seductive power of these ideas ("A lover will follow you, be cast down and sworn to the dark") and will start spreading them, advocating them, and living their personal lives according to these preachings (represented in the video by the girl who appears to swear allegiance to a "nerdy" lover and then live all her sexual fantasies).

    Conservative intellectuals like Roger Scruton call this view "nihilism". No morals, no restraints, no responsibility. In the conservative views, this leads to the death of the soul and leads individuals to dispair (suicide being its ultimate manifestation). When Opeth says "Lead the blind in search to find the pathway to the sun" calls for the common citizen that is aware of the destructive fruits of nihilist philosophers' work (then the name "The Devil's Orchard) to fight the good fight and start talking to their peers who were seduced by this evil philosophy.

    haulinoateson July 28, 2018   Link

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