Enduring yet another tale
You tempt me again
With your embrace, so tainted
Within the night you beckon
Cursing me with every glance
Carry my empty shadow
And guide me inside your warped labyrinth
To the well of sin
I swear I will always love you
Release my yearning
The soil I walk is clad with light
Drifting moons thrust me with their rays
And I fall inside
Cannot bid farewell
The pale face...you went as far as you could
And from that moment
I witnessed your beauty, fealt your death
The mist of morning linger before it leaves
Invisible eyes, red reflection
It is you
Smiling in the midst of the moor
No one? This song is very very good. love it
I'm not sure exactly on the complete meaning, but it is clearly sexual.
I belive I recall Mike saying this song is about nightmares, although I agree with Paradox that it sounds more lusty.
Damn, that acoustic interlude towards the end is just beautiful...
hmm,,, It is about nightmares, especially the last sentences, it sounds to me like the appearance of a ghost. And yeh, its about love too.. I dont even care where its about, Opeth just rocks :D
I personally think this song is about a sperm. No reall, look. . .
The first stanza shows the sperm being awakned by interactions between the man and woman (lullaby=music, tale=conversation, embrace=intercourse)
"Cursing me with every glance" means that the parents don't want a child, but with "I swear I will always love you", the sperm says that they won't regret having a child.
The second and third stanzas (Bring me through. . . fall inside) detail the sperm's feelings about release and getting to the egg.
In the fourth stanza, the sperm witnesses so many of his fellow sperms dying. He regrets that they had so little chance to survive and feels pain at their passings.
"Mine is yours, mine is yours In the wake of dawn The mist of morning linger before it leaves Invisible eyes, red reflection It is you Smiling in the midst of the moor"
Here the sperm is talking to the egg as if together they had already made a child, hence the "invisible eyes". He is happy at the end the end result.
man that whole sex thing ruined the song for me. lol
hey scuzlup are you on drugs by any chance :p
and its not about sex. its about a guy who cant forget his dead love. he sees her in his dreams because he cant let her go. and the last sentence indicates that he even sees her when he is awake.
so its about not being able to let a lost love go
Regardless of what the song's about, Nectar has some seriously great riffage. It's easily my favourite Opeth song.
yeah , its just too bad that the actual sound on morningrise is so damn bad
the bass riffs are really cool en very creative but the bass player they had at that time has such a terrible basssound, its simply irritating. i mean hook up a squier bass on some mini amp and you would almost get a better sound that he has :s, its really terrible. not that mendez has a great bass sound ( i mean a fender jazz bass for metal ?? ) but at least its better than derfalla's sound