Hell is here, where storms are drawing near.
We are black moths, separated from the core.
Chased away into the night, to the farthest shore,
where storms rip our wings apart.

We circle around the flame.
Holding on to the light of hell that glows for us.
In our name, of pain and betrayal.
This is our home, on the farthest shore,
where the bells toll fear.

We are the black moths circling around the flame.

The distant lighthouse in the raging storm.
The glow of the safe harbour we will never reach.
Like a compass without the North, we are lost.
Ever changing course from home, forever lost.

For our sins we are cursed to stay here.
For all the wings we left behind, burned and broken.
Now the ones to hold the blackest ones.

On our backs they keep us alive in this world of the dead,
but not to be remembered, only in all evil.

We are the black moths circling around the flame.

For a thousand years of suffering.
A price from the life we left behind.
Thrown into the loneliness of this last shore.
From the life all promises, into the abyss of souls parted.

We are the black moths, separated from the core.
Chased away into the night, to the farthest shore,
where storms rip our wings apart.

And the calm is only to remind us of our black hearts.
The one that beats no more, won't hurt anyone, evermore.
Now I am finally home where I belong.
Flying into the flame of hell every night,
just before the sunrise.

To burn to ashes,
just to form again for a new night of suffering.
To remain what I was, the evil, again and again...


Lyrics submitted by sokorny

The Gathering of Black Moths song meanings
Add Your Thoughts

0 Comments

sort form View by:
  • No Comments

Add your thoughts

Log in now to tell us what you think this song means.

Don’t have an account? Create an account with SongMeanings to post comments, submit lyrics, and more. It’s super easy, we promise!

More Featured Meanings

Album art
Fast Car
Tracy Chapman
"Fast car" is kind of a continuation of Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run." It has all the clawing your way to a better life, but in this case the protagonist never makes it with her love; in fact she is dragged back down by him. There is still an amazing amount of hope and will in the lyrics; and the lyrics themselve rank and easy five. If only music was stronger it would be one of those great radio songs that you hear once a week 20 years after it was released. The imagery is almost tear-jerking ("City lights lay out before us", "Speeds so fast felt like I was drunk"), and the idea of starting from nothing and just driving and working and denigrating yourself for a chance at being just above poverty, then losing in the end is just painful and inspiring at the same time.
Album art
Bron-Y-Aur Stomp
Led Zeppelin
This is about bronies. They communicate by stomping.
Album art
Dreamwalker
Silent Planet
I think much like another song “Anti-Matter” (that's also on the same album as this song), this one is also is inspired by a horrifying van crash the band experienced on Nov 3, 2022. This, much like the other track, sounds like it's an extension what they shared while huddled in the wreckage, as they helped frontman Garrett Russell stem the bleeding from his head wound while he was under the temporary effects of a concussion. The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath.
Album art
Gentle Hour
Yo La Tengo
This song was originally written by a guy called Peter Gutteridge. He was one of the founders of the "Dunedin Sound" a musical scene in the south of New Zealand in the early 80s. From there it was covered by "The Clean" one of the early bands of that scene (he had originally been a member of in it's early days, writing a couple of their best early songs). The Dunedin sound, and the Clean became popular on american college radio in the mid to late 80s. I guess Yo La Tengo heard that version. Great version of a great song,
Album art
American Town
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran shares a short story of reconnecting with an old flame on “American Town.” The track is about a holiday Ed Sheeran spends with his countrywoman who resides in America. The two are back together after a long period apart, and get around to enjoying a bunch of fun activities while rekindling the flames of their romance.