Lyric discussion by dhramcharger 

Cover art for Blackened Waters lyrics by Black Label Society

You start out with family supporting you and then some of them get caught up in the blackened waters. They change, lose their way or support, become damned, or die. You continue on with a strong desire to move foreward. You keep on going with a bit of a guard not sure who the people you can trust are. People will come and go and people will try to fuck you over along the way, even your family- forgotten son or daughter. Eventually the filth of the earth will drown us all. I do think this song has a huge feeling that parents give up on their kids and don't support them. That relationship is tainted/blackened forever. Very powerful song even without lyrics

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