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The Drapery Falls Lyrics
Please remedy my confusion and thrust me back to the day
The silence of your seclusion brings night into all you say
Pull me down again and guide me into pain
I'm counting nocturnal hours, drowned visions in haunted sleep
Faint flickering of your powers leaks out to show what you keep
Pull me down again and guide me into
There is failure inside
This test I can't persist
Kept back by the enigma
No criteria demanded here
Deadly patterns made my wreath
Prosperous in your ways
Pale ghost in the corner
Pouring a caress on your shoulder
Puzzled by shrewd innocence
Runs a thick tide beneath
Ushered into inner graves
Nails bleeding from the struggle
It is the end for the weak at heart,
Always the same
A lullaby for the ones who've lost all
Reeling inside
My gleaming eye in your necklace reflects
Stare of primal regrets
You turn your back and you walk away
Never again
Spiraling to the ground below
Like Autumn leaves left in the wake to fade away
Waking up to your sound again
And lapse into the ways of misery
The silence of your seclusion brings night into all you say
Faint flickering of your powers leaks out to show what you keep
This test I can't persist
Kept back by the enigma
No criteria demanded here
Deadly patterns made my wreath
Prosperous in your ways
Pale ghost in the corner
Pouring a caress on your shoulder
Runs a thick tide beneath
Ushered into inner graves
Nails bleeding from the struggle
Always the same
A lullaby for the ones who've lost all
Reeling inside
My gleaming eye in your necklace reflects
Stare of primal regrets
You turn your back and you walk away
Never again
Like Autumn leaves left in the wake to fade away
Waking up to your sound again
And lapse into the ways of misery
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This song is incredible. It is single-handedly responsible for me finally "getting" Death Metal vocals. I used to stop the song around the five minute mark because I thought they ruined the song, but now I think they're my favourite part. Those power chords and the blood-curdling scream after the first "heavy" verse is just so far beyond epic, it could approach Shakespeare.
I forget where I first heard the name Opeth, but at the time I was trying to force myself to open-up to new music, despite reallllllly disliking death vocals. I looked "Opeth" up on Limewire and this is the first song I downloaded. The raw emotion, frustration, intensity of it all make just "get" the vocals, too. This is metal done right. This is death vocals with a purpose and meaning.
I forget where I first heard the name Opeth, but at the time I was trying to force myself to open-up to new music, despite reallllllly disliking death vocals. I looked "Opeth" up on Limewire and this is the first song I downloaded. The raw emotion, frustration, intensity of it all make just "get" the vocals, too. This is metal done right. This is death vocals with a purpose and meaning.
@AngryCitizen Last year I decided I wanted to get into heavy metal, so I went to my dad, because I'm pretty sure he knows everything about heavy metal. Anyway, he recommended the Opeth album "Watershed" and I started listening to it. On that album there aren't much death vocals, but when I did hear them I didn't necessarily hate them, but they were a little weird for me. I liked the overall sound of the album though, so I asked for more recommendations, and one of them was the album "Blackwater Park". I was getting more into...
@AngryCitizen Last year I decided I wanted to get into heavy metal, so I went to my dad, because I'm pretty sure he knows everything about heavy metal. Anyway, he recommended the Opeth album "Watershed" and I started listening to it. On that album there aren't much death vocals, but when I did hear them I didn't necessarily hate them, but they were a little weird for me. I liked the overall sound of the album though, so I asked for more recommendations, and one of them was the album "Blackwater Park". I was getting more into the death vocals at this point.
Anyway, The Drapery Falls was my favorite song on this album for quite a while. I think it suggests many different emotions, with the distant vocals at the beginning (I don't know exactly what that's called, but I call it "radio singing", when the voices sound like they're coming through some sort of radio or microphone) and the harmonies at the end and the raging death vocals in the middle.
I've actually gotten more into this stuff since then, currently my favorite Opeth song to listen to is "April Ethereal", which is almost entirely death vocals but they are done well, they're expressing very deep anger. Also the guitar is amazing. But it is definitely musical art and requires a great amount of musical skill. I won't say that they're aren't death metal bands that just senselessly beat things and scream profanity, but people who do that give amazing artists like this a bad name.
@AngryCitizen Last year I decided I wanted to get into heavy metal, so I went to my dad, because I'm pretty sure he knows everything about heavy metal. Anyway, he recommended the Opeth album "Watershed" and I started listening to it. On that album there aren't much death vocals, but when I did hear them I didn't necessarily hate them, but they were a little weird for me. I liked the overall sound of the album though, so I asked for more recommendations, and one of them was the album "Blackwater Park". I was getting more into...
@AngryCitizen Last year I decided I wanted to get into heavy metal, so I went to my dad, because I'm pretty sure he knows everything about heavy metal. Anyway, he recommended the Opeth album "Watershed" and I started listening to it. On that album there aren't much death vocals, but when I did hear them I didn't necessarily hate them, but they were a little weird for me. I liked the overall sound of the album though, so I asked for more recommendations, and one of them was the album "Blackwater Park". I was getting more into the death vocals at this point.
Anyway, The Drapery Falls was my favorite song on this album for quite a while. I think it suggests many different emotions, with the distant vocals at the beginning (I don't know exactly what that's called, but I call it "radio singing", when the voices sound like they're coming through some sort of radio or microphone) and the harmonies at the end and the raging death vocals in the middle.
I've actually gotten more into this stuff since then, currently my favorite Opeth song to listen to is "April Ethereal", which is almost entirely death vocals but they are done well, they're expressing very deep anger. Also the guitar is amazing. But it is definitely musical art and requires a great amount of musical skill. I won't say that they're aren't death metal bands that just senselessly beat things and scream profanity, but people who do that give amazing artists like this a bad name.
This will be long, sorry. :)
When I first heard this I always pictured it being from a womans perspective. Wich of course most likely isn't the case, since writers often write from their own experiences.
But anyways, this gave me a completley diffrent experience and picture of what this song is about. Wich proberly isn't the right one. But still kinda intresting.
To me this song is about a woman who lives in an abusive relationship. She is together with a man who on the outside looks like your ordanary innocent man that has a good life. ("Prosperous in your ways")
But he is filled with anger from his failures. Wich has created a very dark passenger/personality. This angry sadistic personality sometimes shows, by small outbursts of anger and bad temper. ("Faint flickering of your power")
She tries to live by this persons "rules", to avoid the abuse. But this person has no real reason for the abuse other then his own anger and low self esteem. Comming from repeted short commings and failures in his life. His temper is unpredictable. ("Runs a thick tide beneath") This anger makes it impossible for her to reason with him, or to please him. Becuse he will always take his anger out on her. ("This test I can't persist")
The real evil and pain come at night when he beats her and rapes her.
While laying there night after night withstanding this abuse, being weak hearted and not able to withstand it she shuts down emotionaly to be able to withstand the pain. ("It is the end for the weak at heart always the same A lullaby for the ones who've lost all reeling inside")
I picture her laying there while he has his way with her, she sees her own eyes relfect in HIS necklace.
And when it's finaly over. She feels empty and emotionless. But also at peace. She falls asleep only to wake up the next morning to the sound of him. And relapse into reality witch is nothing but misery.
This is most likely not what the song is about, it's just the feeling I got the first time I heard it. And when I read the lyrics I could easly fit them into my interpretation of it all.
One of my favorite Opeth songs btw.
This post actually makes a lot of sense. A lot more than mine. To me the meaning of this song has been about a man who is doing battle with his dark passenger and both of them are trying to get rid of the other. But from this song it sounds like the dark passenger is winning. But that's just me
This post actually makes a lot of sense. A lot more than mine. To me the meaning of this song has been about a man who is doing battle with his dark passenger and both of them are trying to get rid of the other. But from this song it sounds like the dark passenger is winning. But that's just me
@ravage01 Since the first time I heard this song, I was 13 years old and I did not understand English- For some reason my interpretation matches with yours until the part where you mention it is the woman\'s perspective from an abusive relationship. I always play the same movie in my head, of a woman who can feel from the distance how her lover is weak and evil and it is unfaithful to her multiple times. She feels every touch of his body with the other woman, but in her body what she feels is an acute pain like stabs....
@ravage01 Since the first time I heard this song, I was 13 years old and I did not understand English- For some reason my interpretation matches with yours until the part where you mention it is the woman\'s perspective from an abusive relationship. I always play the same movie in my head, of a woman who can feel from the distance how her lover is weak and evil and it is unfaithful to her multiple times. She feels every touch of his body with the other woman, but in her body what she feels is an acute pain like stabs. She twitches on the floor and brings down the drapery from the room where she is agonizing.\r\nNow I am 32. I am living a hell of an experience, quite similar to this movie I reproduced in my mind, always when I listened to this song. Life is very weird
Deadly badgers!
This is by far my favorite Opeth song. After the second "Pull me down again and guide me into..." is probably the most intense part of the song. That part just gives me chills. You know. That static feeling that goes through your entire body. Also "Spiralling to the ground below, like autumn leaves left in the wake to fade (away). Waking up to your sound again, and lapse into the ways of misery." Love that part. This song is incredible.
It's about Mikael Akerfeldt's dead goldfish. True story. He came home to find that the wind had blown his curtain, knocking the bowl onto the floor.
Lovely song........ thats all I gotta say
This song is what got me into Opeth. A truly amazing piece.
Yeah definitely about relationships. Being confused by the opposite sex ;-) My gleaming eye in your necklace reflects - stare of primal regrets: Primal regrets being sexual fantasies/urges or the like. Really sad song when you think about it, which just goes to show how effective a song it is.
I'm not completely sure what this song is about, but damn is it amazing. The best part of the whole song is after the slower part in the middle, and then it gets so hard i juts want to kill something.
I actually think it's about a loveless relationship, or a love-hate relationship with barely any communication ("The silence of your seclusion brings night into all you say."). I think Mikael uses the act of making love ("Pull me down again and guide me into pain.") as a metaphor for her dragging him back into the relationship; using sex as a bargaining point or a focal point for a doomed relationship.
I actually think he possibly dreams of killing her - "My gleaming eye in your necklace reflects, stare of primal regrets. You turn your back and you walk away... never again. Spiralling to the ground below, like Autumn leaves left in the wake to fade away."
Of course, this only is a dream when you take into account the following line; "Waking up to your sound again and lapse into the ways of misery." I think that it's a relationship he can't escape from, with a woman who has made him bitter and spiteful towards her ("Nails bleeding from the struggle, it is the end for the weak at heart.").