Demon Of The Fall Lyrics
Supplanter, I think you're wrong. I've read a few interviews with Mikael Akerfeldt and Martin Lopez, and in them, they said that the general theme of My Arms Your Hearse was that the man dies and comes back immediately after, and that his widow is not with another man, but just doesn't want to be haunted by him or taken to her grave. So his hauntings are fruitless and eventually he returns to the forest, alone, to face eternity in limbo alone.
This song, however, is clear: his hauntings have frustrated him to a point where he wants to make his presence forcibly felt, and thus begins making life hard for her, scaring her terribly, with poltergiest activity and so on. She runs around, scared out of her wits, holding a knife, and when she turns around and finally comes face to face with his ghost clearly for the first time (in April Ethereal and other songs, she saw him, but only briefly) she runs away screaming, and the anger leaves him as he realises that he's not in love with him any more, considering he's scaring the crap out of her.
@6th_sadistic_sniper I really think that the songs and overall story of this album can be somewhat allegorical, in my mind anyway, and can be compared to real life situations. Like something you come to love and build your life around suddenly rips itself away from you (April Ethereal), sometimes relationships just don't work for certain reasons (The Amen Corner) and you've really just got to accept that because trying to force "love" can really be kind of destructive (Demon of the Fall).
@6th_sadistic_sniper I really think that the songs and overall story of this album can be somewhat allegorical, in my mind anyway, and can be compared to real life situations. Like something you come to love and build your life around suddenly rips itself away from you (April Ethereal), sometimes relationships just don't work for certain reasons (The Amen Corner) and you've really just got to accept that because trying to force "love" can really be kind of destructive (Demon of the Fall).
The entire album "MAYH" seeminly is a conceptual series telling the story of a man who dies, and comes back to find not only is his love with someone else, but she is happier with the new man. He rises up, and is determined to kill him and take her back to the world of souls with him. The track "Demon Of The Fall" seeminly is the point were he is trying to kill her :) Opeth fuckin rules! Hails. \m/
This is waaaay hardcore.
Can't believe anyone could make sense out of those lyrics. The little acoustic part is cool, but the voice in the beginning is friggin awesome.
I always thought that the girl died and he was morning her death. I guess because I didnt read all the lyrics and didnt really know what half of the songs were saying. Thanks for clearing it up Supplante.
This song is cool... and levyb, if you have nothing worthwhile to say, shut up please. Everyone loves cheese. you are in no way unique or special.
this is my favourite opeth song
lol Emmelstone. I agree life has very sad people in it.
To me this song represents corruption. Someone who first is in love, then realizes that things are not all that good, thus is corrupted by his own anger or hatred.
Now the end of this song... WOW. Fucking AWESOME melody. It's so brutal I cream my pants every time i hear it.
Perhaps it is also referring to the season of Autumn as being somehow evil or terrifying, since during the fall a lot of living things die. So the Fall is basically the season of death, cold, and rot.
Actually, you know what? I think you are more right than I thought, Supplanter. Looking again at The Amen Corner, I see that there IS another man - the line about "taking solace in the words I despise" - but there's no real evidence that she's with this other guy, it just seems the other guy wants to be with her and is consoling her to get close to her.
And, "to reap the harvest that was mine", also from The Amen Corner, does lend credibility to your idea of the ghost wanting to kill her. But otherwise I think I'm right; he haunts her, chases her and scares her, but doesn't kill her. I think he realises at the last moment that forcing her to love him, and hurting her in the process, is wrong, and that it is better to have an eternity alone - thus atoning for his mistreatment of her, and resolving the issues that leave him on earth. Which is much like the movie "Jacob's Ladder", where the main character can't ascend to heaven until accepting the fact that he must leave his living relatives behind.