@[Diderik:33655] "Your a holiday!" Was a popular term used in the 50s/60s to compliment someone on their all around. For example, not only are they beautiful, but they are fun and kind too ... just an all around "holiday".
I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
We entered Winter once again
Naked, freezing from my breath
‘Neath the lid, all limbs tucked away
This coffin is your abode from now and onwards
Your body is mine to avail
Such a tragic sight you are
Slave under my creed
Spurring me with those tears
I am beyond death
Midst a dreaming affinity
Saving strength now, faint whispers
Come erotic communion in its splendour
Fever mirrored ghosts
Night-time consolation, cross the line
Draw murder into art
Sleep inside through days
In the wake of this relief
Shivering, longing for more
Insanity at its peak
Love me to my death
Lost are the days of Spring
You sighed and let me in
Keep the beast inside
Shackled within my hide
Screaming out too late
Losing to my hate
Grew together with your skin
And paced the trails of sin
Your gaze, covered with virgin snow
Rigid features….
It's the shallow deeds who's to blame
Deafening shrieks pierced the night
A step from oblivion
Moving into the dim lights
Hiding within a reverie
It was worth it for the wait alone
Naked, freezing from my breath
‘Neath the lid, all limbs tucked away
This coffin is your abode from now and onwards
Your body is mine to avail
Such a tragic sight you are
Slave under my creed
Spurring me with those tears
I am beyond death
Midst a dreaming affinity
Saving strength now, faint whispers
Come erotic communion in its splendour
Fever mirrored ghosts
Night-time consolation, cross the line
Draw murder into art
Sleep inside through days
In the wake of this relief
Shivering, longing for more
Insanity at its peak
Love me to my death
Lost are the days of Spring
You sighed and let me in
Keep the beast inside
Shackled within my hide
Screaming out too late
Losing to my hate
Grew together with your skin
And paced the trails of sin
Your gaze, covered with virgin snow
Rigid features….
It's the shallow deeds who's to blame
Deafening shrieks pierced the night
A step from oblivion
Moving into the dim lights
Hiding within a reverie
It was worth it for the wait alone
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Ok Ok Ok... I created an account just for this song. I've listen to this so many times and saw the lyrics even more often. First of all YES ! it's about rape and murder NO there's no leprosy in this. A leper is also and outcast which is the case here. The last sentence confirm it "It was worth it for the wait alone". Is a way to say, it's my vengeance to the world. Ok lets take the lyrics part by part.
"We entered Winter once again" Keep in mind that's the first lyrics of the album, it means we forgot the happy ending of still life : this is gonna be raw and cold, like winter.
"Naked, freezing from my breath" Have you ever felt the breath of someone in your neck ?
"Neath the lid all limbs tucked away This coffin is your abode from now" He's above, she can't move
"Your body is mine to avail Such a tragic sight you are Slave under my creed Spurring me with those tears" This is were insanity begins, feeling all powerful makes him bursting in madness
"I am beyond death" A lot of murderers, rapists etc... felt the same when they commited their crimes, feeling like god because you play with the life of someone
"Midst a dreaming affinity Saving strength now, faint whispers Come erotic communion in its splendour Fever mirrored ghosts" She lost strength and resigned to fight, she let him do the dirty job, he fucks her
"Night time consolation, cross the line Draw murder into art Sleep inside through days In the wake of this relief Shivering, longing for more Insanity at it's peak Love me to my death" He kills her, obvious enough : night means death, "cross the line" "Insanity at it's peak"
"Lost are days of Spring You sighted and let me in Keep the beast inside Shackled within my hide Screaming out too late Losing to my hate Grew together with your skin And paced the trails of sin" I can pretty much see the scene clearly. His madness stoped, he stand amazed, got scared. Then he talk to her, yell, and tell her it's her fault. MAAAAN i can almost see his eyes, in a mix of surprize, fear and anger.
"Your gaze covered with virgin snow Rigid features It's the shallow deeds who is to blame Deafening shrieks pierced the night A step from oblivion Moving into the dim lights Hiding within a reverie" He now looks at the body, starting to get covered by fresh snow, the beauty of the white constrast with the horror of the murder. He feels like in a dream, unreal.
"It was worth it for the wait alone" Like a cry against sociaty that made him an outcast.
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@thechopeur Great analysis, but now I made an account just to reply to this! HAHAH<br /> <br /> For me it seems obvious that actually the woman got pregnant! <br /> <br /> "You sighted and let me in<br /> Keep the beast inside<br /> Shackled within my hide<br /> Screaming out too late<br /> Losing to my hate<br /> Grew together with your skin<br /> And paced the trails of sin"<br /> <br /> Keep the beast inside, shackled (tied, bonded to) within my hide (do you realize what is this that he's calling his 'hide'?)<br /> Grew together with your skin and paced the trails of sin. - This actually confirms the following idea: the woman is now pregnant, and since it was a relationship of no love, just abuse, this fetus is doomed to follow the sinful path. In the end it becomes clear this idea.<br /> <br /> "Deafening shrieks pierced the night" is the time when the baby is being born.<br /> <br /> From now on, the song is focused on the baby, who 'paced the trails of sin':<br /> "A step from oblivion<br /> Moving into the dim lights<br /> Hiding within a reverie<br /> It was worth it for the wait alone"<br /> This is the time when he's born, moving into the dim lights... and since he comes into this terrible environment, he says it was worth it for the wait alone.<br /> <br /> Afterwards the song repeats itself for the only time, just to make this idea even more clear. Now, the newborn is the new sinner.
@thechopeur Winter can relate to death in poetry, and the lines about lost Spring suggest that is about death too.<br /> <br /> I think some of your interpretations are good, but on others you have missed the ball park completely.