Elysium Lyrics

Lyric discussion by drietovenares 

Cover art for Elysium lyrics by Portishead

I want to understand the line "Your feathered sacred self" but my feeling about the song as a whole is that she is leaving a relationship. It's time. He doesn't want her to go so she asks "if you felt as I, would you betray yourself" and stay? He can't make her love him anymore and he can't make her stay...that's just my feeling...I don't know.

And it's your heart That's so wrong Mistaken You'll never know Your feathered sacred self

I think the implication here is that the other person is behaving as if they were an angel never doing wrong. She is being sacrastic about how he will never know how mistaken he is about his innocence.