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The Nameless One Lyrics
Wake up baby and taste the dirt
We're six feet under and still in love
The day has come
We belong with the living dead of the night
The day has come
We belong with the living dead of the night
Hear the outlaw ghoul and his cane
Crashing our casket to find his way
The day has come
We belong with the living dead of the night
Hold on to me baby
His bony hands will do you no harm
It says in the cards we lost our soul to the nameless one
Wake up my darling your time is up
Follow my riders into the dark
The day has come
We belong with the living dead of the night
Hold on to me baby
His bony hands will do you no harm
It says in the cards we lost our soul to the nameless one
Long time ago
You called upon the tombstones
Gambling with your soul for nothing
And now you're walking through the valley of the death
But see how beautiful you are
Skinny blue and grey in love
You'll walk among the outlaw bandits
Until you meet the nameless one
Hold on to me baby
His bony hands will do you no harm
It says in the cards we lost our soul to the nameless one
Hold on to me baby
His bony hands will do you no harm
It says in the cards we lost our soul to the nameless one
The day is finally come
We're six feet under and still in love
The day has come
We belong with the living dead of the night
We belong with the living dead of the night
Hear the outlaw ghoul and his cane
Crashing our casket to find his way
The day has come
We belong with the living dead of the night
Hold on to me baby
His bony hands will do you no harm
It says in the cards we lost our soul to the nameless one
Wake up my darling your time is up
Follow my riders into the dark
The day has come
We belong with the living dead of the night
His bony hands will do you no harm
It says in the cards we lost our soul to the nameless one
Long time ago
You called upon the tombstones
Gambling with your soul for nothing
And now you're walking through the valley of the death
But see how beautiful you are
Skinny blue and grey in love
You'll walk among the outlaw bandits
Until you meet the nameless one
Hold on to me baby
His bony hands will do you no harm
It says in the cards we lost our soul to the nameless one
His bony hands will do you no harm
It says in the cards we lost our soul to the nameless one
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Mentioned by others but in short, as stated by Michael Poulsen, "This is a fictitious story about a young couple who are flirting with spiritual cards and ouija boards to get in contact with spirits or demons or something from another dimension. Somehow, they make contact with some ghouls through some tombstones from the 18th century, and they end up selling their souls to The Nameless One. Suddenly, they wake up in the 1800s, inside a casket, and an outlaw ghoul is crashing their casket with his cane. He pulls the couple up and says, ‘You’re on your way to The Nameless One, you have a deal…’, and he takes them along with his riders. On the next album, you’ll find out who The Nameless One is."
Poulsen says of ‘The Nameless One,’ “It’s a song that’s going to continue on the next album, lyrically it will continue. It’s about this young couple who was flirting around with spiritual forces. They played some cards where they somehow invoke some spirits from the 1800s — they came in contact with some tombstones from the 1800s and they actually end up selling their own souls to the nameless one and they have no idea who the nameless one is.”
The vocalist continues, “The next thing that happens is that they wake up in a coffin and they hear someone banging on the top of the coffin and it’s the outlaw who is crushing the coffin and pulls them up and says, ‘You lost your soul to the nameless one and my duty is to take you to the nameless one. Follow me and my riders into the dark.’”
Poulsen concludes, “That’s what the song is about, this couple waking up in the 1800s because they’ve been flirting with spiritual cards and they end up, by mistake, selling their souls to the nameless one and the next story or the next album is going to be about who is the nameless one and what does he want with that couple?”
I am thinking that it was inspired by Stephen Kings Dark Tower series. The nameless gunslinger. :)
Wow, I feel very nerdy for coming up with this explanation of the song, but I think it's about a lich-lord and two of his subjects. A lich is a special type of undead creature that voluntarily gave up his natural life for immortality. Lich's unlike other undead are very intelligent, sometimes inhumanly so, and often command legions of lesser undead. Look at the Wikipedia page for an explanation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lich
There are at least 3 main characters in this song. There is the "outlaw bandit" (who I think is also the the "nameless one", and I think that this guy is the lich-lord). The other two characters are the deceased couple that are in love. Anyway, I think that the dead couple are being called back to life (undeath) to serve the nameless one, (the lich-lord/outlaw bandit). Normally, zombies don't experience love, but during this current undead craze, it's not unheard of.
Of course symbolically, this song explores love, and alternative lifestyles (this sounds like I'm describing homsexuality, but that's not my intent).
I found an interview from loudwire.com with Michael Poulsen where he explains the story of the song. I posted the majority of it underneath.
I found an interview from loudwire.com with Michael Poulsen where he explains the story of the song. I posted the majority of it underneath.