This album is a THEME (as opposed to "concept") album about death, told through each song in various instances and situations. "Windowpane" is about a ghost who watches over his family and friends, but knows that they can't see him ("His hand is waving a goodbye/ There's no response or action returned"). "To Rid the Disease" is a debate as to whether or not someone should be released from life (perhaps in a hospital, while in critical). And "Weakness" is a haunting closer of someone who is dead...and gone forever...and there is nothing left, and nobody to talk to. Stuck in eternity.
Just keep in mind that this is probably the grimmest death album. Grim, but beautiful...like all of Opeth's art.
This album is a THEME (as opposed to "concept") album about death, told through each song in various instances and situations. "Windowpane" is about a ghost who watches over his family and friends, but knows that they can't see him ("His hand is waving a goodbye/ There's no response or action returned"). "To Rid the Disease" is a debate as to whether or not someone should be released from life (perhaps in a hospital, while in critical). And "Weakness" is a haunting closer of someone who is dead...and gone forever...and there is nothing left, and nobody to talk to. Stuck in eternity.
Just keep in mind that this is probably the grimmest death album. Grim, but beautiful...like all of Opeth's art.