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Dancing in Madness Lyrics
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Dripping personification
The putrid liquid
Washing all away
In the edge of mind
Lurks bleak sacred monster
Null incarnate
Defeater the way
Locked within a spell
This ritual repeats itself again
The drained one
dancing in madness
Inverse horizon stretched out
before the shivering frenzy
The serpent whispers
And the haze must return
Again the moments stop
Replaced by falsehood
Perverted image
Of the self arise, impure
Non beginning
In a self-fulfilling doomsday
Believe in your own end
And your wish will be fulfilled
Unforgiveness thrives
We cannot survive
Time -- we'll pay the price
You will not survive
Finished
In the dying of the flame
A solitary piece
Remainder of the sane
A shattered bell
In shadows still rings
And the night crying bird
Laments the loss of its wings
Even alone
The wretched voice still calls
On a not too distant day
The sky is soon to fall
The wounded one may try to search for sleep
Even in deepest night
The softest voice will sing
When all but night has gone
And hands are filled with dust
There's no one else
Who can take the blame
For those deeds are yours alone
And everything has gone away
In ceaseless erosion
In the languid sand
The seeds of pain
Are sown to grow once again
Dripping personification
The putrid liquid
Washing all away
In the edge of mind
Lurks bleak sacred monster
Null incarnate
Defeater the way
This ritual repeats itself again
The drained one
dancing in madness
Inverse horizon stretched out
before the shivering frenzy
The serpent whispers
And the haze must return
Replaced by falsehood
Perverted image
Of the self arise, impure
Non beginning
In a self-fulfilling doomsday
Believe in your own end
And your wish will be fulfilled
We cannot survive
Time -- we'll pay the price
You will not survive
In the dying of the flame
A solitary piece
Remainder of the sane
A shattered bell
In shadows still rings
And the night crying bird
Laments the loss of its wings
The wretched voice still calls
On a not too distant day
The sky is soon to fall
The wounded one may try to search for sleep
Even in deepest night
The softest voice will sing
And hands are filled with dust
Who can take the blame
For those deeds are yours alone
In ceaseless erosion
The seeds of pain
Are sown to grow once again
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I think this AMAZING song gives us a saga of death, repentance and reincarnation, in a spiritism view.
It starts with the death, when they sing about "the putrid liquid washes away" and the "null incarnate". It's about this person portrayed the music facing the death.
In the second stanza they talk about this people meeting the process of incarnation. "Locked withing a spell" figures the magic of this process, the supernaturalism that envolves it. Even when they talk about "the serpent whispers" remind of an entity. The third stanza reafirms all of it, when they talk about the "self-fulfilling doomsday", and about if this person wants to end this, he should accept his fate and face what's coming for him.
And then comes the choir that starts to introduce us the idea of repentance. Maybe picturing the idea of souls in the purgatory talking about regrets of our actions and "paying the price" in this place.
Until the very last verse, the song talks about repentance and regrets. It portrays this soul suffering and rethinking about its life. Even in a hopeless situation this soul still calls for some hope, like when they sing about "Even in the deepest night, the softest voice will sing".
At the end, they finish the music with this verse "The seeds of pain are sown to grow once again". There it makes me think about a reincarnation and circle of life in this spiritualistic view.