I think there is some other point to this song that noone here has mentioned yet. Apart from being an important song in the Epica + The Black Halo storyline, it can also be interpreted as a song about Jesus dying on the cross. If you watch the "One Cold Winter's Night" DVD, watch out for what Khan is doing at the beginning of this song - he stretches his arms and closes his eyes, just like imagining himself in the situation of Jesus before his death. The lyrics can be interpreted as a portrayal of his last thoughts, feeling abandoned by his father God who made him suffer and die. And if you think further, this can be seen in relation to what Ariel goes through in the storyline. He, too, questions the sense of his life on earth and fails to understand why God would push him through all this pain. He feels just as abandoned as Jesus did - that is the "Black Halo", the crown of thorns, that every human being is damned to bear, the pain of being alive at all.
I think there is some other point to this song that noone here has mentioned yet. Apart from being an important song in the Epica + The Black Halo storyline, it can also be interpreted as a song about Jesus dying on the cross. If you watch the "One Cold Winter's Night" DVD, watch out for what Khan is doing at the beginning of this song - he stretches his arms and closes his eyes, just like imagining himself in the situation of Jesus before his death. The lyrics can be interpreted as a portrayal of his last thoughts, feeling abandoned by his father God who made him suffer and die. And if you think further, this can be seen in relation to what Ariel goes through in the storyline. He, too, questions the sense of his life on earth and fails to understand why God would push him through all this pain. He feels just as abandoned as Jesus did - that is the "Black Halo", the crown of thorns, that every human being is damned to bear, the pain of being alive at all.