Supplanter, I think you're wrong. I've read a few interviews with Mikael Akerfeldt and Martin Lopez, and in them, they said that the general theme of My Arms Your Hearse was that the man dies and comes back immediately after, and that his widow is not with another man, but just doesn't want to be haunted by him or taken to her grave. So his hauntings are fruitless and eventually he returns to the forest, alone, to face eternity in limbo alone.
This song, however, is clear: his hauntings have frustrated him to a point where he wants to make his presence forcibly felt, and thus begins making life hard for her, scaring her terribly, with poltergiest activity and so on. She runs around, scared out of her wits, holding a knife, and when she turns around and finally comes face to face with his ghost clearly for the first time (in April Ethereal and other songs, she saw him, but only briefly) she runs away screaming, and the anger leaves him as he realises that he's not in love with him any more, considering he's scaring the crap out of her.
@6th_sadistic_sniper I really think that the songs and overall story of this album can be somewhat allegorical, in my mind anyway, and can be compared to real life situations. Like something you come to love and build your life around suddenly rips itself away from you (April Ethereal), sometimes relationships just don't work for certain reasons (The Amen Corner) and you've really just got to accept that because trying to force "love" can really be kind of destructive (Demon of the Fall).
@6th_sadistic_sniper I really think that the songs and overall story of this album can be somewhat allegorical, in my mind anyway, and can be compared to real life situations. Like something you come to love and build your life around suddenly rips itself away from you (April Ethereal), sometimes relationships just don't work for certain reasons (The Amen Corner) and you've really just got to accept that because trying to force "love" can really be kind of destructive (Demon of the Fall).
Supplanter, I think you're wrong. I've read a few interviews with Mikael Akerfeldt and Martin Lopez, and in them, they said that the general theme of My Arms Your Hearse was that the man dies and comes back immediately after, and that his widow is not with another man, but just doesn't want to be haunted by him or taken to her grave. So his hauntings are fruitless and eventually he returns to the forest, alone, to face eternity in limbo alone.
This song, however, is clear: his hauntings have frustrated him to a point where he wants to make his presence forcibly felt, and thus begins making life hard for her, scaring her terribly, with poltergiest activity and so on. She runs around, scared out of her wits, holding a knife, and when she turns around and finally comes face to face with his ghost clearly for the first time (in April Ethereal and other songs, she saw him, but only briefly) she runs away screaming, and the anger leaves him as he realises that he's not in love with him any more, considering he's scaring the crap out of her.
@6th_sadistic_sniper I really think that the songs and overall story of this album can be somewhat allegorical, in my mind anyway, and can be compared to real life situations. Like something you come to love and build your life around suddenly rips itself away from you (April Ethereal), sometimes relationships just don't work for certain reasons (The Amen Corner) and you've really just got to accept that because trying to force "love" can really be kind of destructive (Demon of the Fall).
@6th_sadistic_sniper I really think that the songs and overall story of this album can be somewhat allegorical, in my mind anyway, and can be compared to real life situations. Like something you come to love and build your life around suddenly rips itself away from you (April Ethereal), sometimes relationships just don't work for certain reasons (The Amen Corner) and you've really just got to accept that because trying to force "love" can really be kind of destructive (Demon of the Fall).