Eléanor

The first song I heard by The Gathering, which made me fall in love. Almost every song they produce is a work of art. After listening to this song 10 times over, I realized I had no clue what Anneke was even saying. Their music just puts you into a trance. Hehe..

I think this is about someone who's dead to the world, from the perspective of someone who knows them by acquiantance. This person is always criticising, always finding something wrong with the people they see, but really, underneath the mask they put on, they are nothing. If they aren't able to criticise someone, there's nothing too them. The narrator despises them, but pities them all the same.

I have no clue what the last two lines would mean compared to my interpretation...

I think the trance unknown evil falls under is the sound of anneke's voice. its so phenomenol.

I agree with ladiablo, more or less. Good song.

I think the last lines mean that all involved are being made fools, the one who lose themselves in their made-up personas and the ones that don't, since one cannot really communicate to each other and are pretty much left talking to themselves.

Has anyone thought that the song might be about Eleanor from Shirley Jackson's "The Haunt of Hill House"? She's quite eccentric and selfish sometimes to fit into the lyrics.