The Drapery Falls Lyrics

Lyric discussion by 6th_sadistic_sniper 

Cover art for The Drapery Falls lyrics by Opeth

I actually think it's about a loveless relationship, or a love-hate relationship with barely any communication ("The silence of your seclusion brings night into all you say."). I think Mikael uses the act of making love ("Pull me down again and guide me into pain.") as a metaphor for her dragging him back into the relationship; using sex as a bargaining point or a focal point for a doomed relationship.

I actually think he possibly dreams of killing her - "My gleaming eye in your necklace reflects, stare of primal regrets. You turn your back and you walk away... never again. Spiralling to the ground below, like Autumn leaves left in the wake to fade away."

Of course, this only is a dream when you take into account the following line; "Waking up to your sound again and lapse into the ways of misery." I think that it's a relationship he can't escape from, with a woman who has made him bitter and spiteful towards her ("Nails bleeding from the struggle, it is the end for the weak at heart.").