A Dying Wish Lyrics

Lyric discussion by bing_bang 

Cover art for A Dying Wish lyrics by Anathema

I'm not exactly what this song means, and I could be completely off the mark, but here it goes!

"I bear the seed of ruin A golden age turned to stone Elysium ..... to dust"

That he ruins everything. He can turn the 'golden' age back to stone, and he can destroy the Elysium (home to the blessed). He's cursed.

"For this, a tragic journey A vision of a dying embrace Scattered earth Silence ....."

Because of this curse from destroying everything, he can never be happy and merely walks the earth alone (silent), and he sees a vision of someone dying with him.

"Where Echonia wept I sank into the silent desert"

Echonia seems to be the girl he loves(?) and they were together, and the curse kills her (the dying embrace).

"Fallen am I, In the solitude of a broken promise ..... I cried alone My empyrean is a scar From the memory of her beautiful life Forever was her name"

He loved her and promised to look after her maybe? But he's broken that promise and now must weep alone. His 'highest heaven' (empyrean) is now scarred because he will never get to go there from the curse killing the one thing he loves.

"Fulfilment lost in a lifetime of regret Ornate peace would cover me As I would die now ..... For one last wish"

She was the one thing that made him whole and now that she's gone he's consumed with all the regret from all that he destroyed.

The he says that he'd die for one wish. That wish could be lots of things, bring her back, be rid of the curse, be able to die, etc. We're sort of left in the dark on what it is.

I'm probably completely wrong but that's just the feeling I get from the song.

Either way, it's epic.