You wait by the window
Morning's breath on the sill
Idle hands given another try
So you wait and you savour the moment
Outside the canvas turned white
Ruby eyes in the fog

Rain washing clean all the sins
A liquid gown that covers all
Your loathe turns endless
Opened mirage sooths your sense
Locked on the pinnacle
The best secret within

Like a derelict child
Heart burning for a stranger
Ascending to the meek
Flock round the liars in awe

Caked in the soil beneath
Fear me when we meet
Turn away in admiration
My firm grip round the nucleus of joy

Enough of this
You will leave me now
You will see it now
Perish at my hands

Close to you
Tangled up in hair
Fresh stigma looks
Shall I take you with me
And it is cold
Ruby eyes in the fog
It is me

And you are just like them all
Stained by the name of fathers
I'm greeting my downward fall
Leaving the throes to others


Lyrics submitted by Idan

The Funeral Portrait Lyrics as written by Mikael Lars Akerfeldt

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    General Comment

    Ok, this song is a bit confusing in my story line, but I'll try and explain my view.

    One of the lovers moves on from the affair that died in 'Dirge For November' and starts a new affair, but while doing so begins to see the similarities from the past.

    Or the lover starts a new affair, but meets someone more cynical than they are that is out to hurt them and will destroy them as they did their past lover.

    VileVinceon February 04, 2009   Link

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