The Night and the Silent Water Lyrics

Lyric discussion by 6th_sadistic_sniper 

Cover art for The Night and the Silent Water lyrics by Opeth

About seeing somebody - a relative? - at their funeral. I'm pretty sure he's standing by a lake he used to visit with this person, who is possibly his father or grandfather, and remembering the person's death and their funeral, which happened when the narrator was still a child.