Lyric discussion by Disposition_987 

Cover art for Blackwater Park lyrics by Opeth

While Tool may be my favorite band, this song is definately my favorite song ever. Its a 12 minute masterpiece. After the nice tense acoustic section, the song just goes into a prog-metal frenzy and just keeps on going and going and going. It just doesn't let up! It's so good it leaves me drained. Music doesn't get any better then this. Thank you, Opeth.

tool was one of my first favorite bands ever. then i listen to OPETH. now 10 years later im rocking an OPETH tat :)

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@Disposition_987 I was thinking, really, if you take that riff that the first stanza of lyrics are being played over and make it less heavy, it would almost sound like something from a classic prog rock band would play, like Led-Zeppelin or maybe an older Rush song. Idk I just thought that when I first started listening to the song.

My favorite part, I think, of this whole song is at the end, when you hear the last death metal vocals (The sun sets forever over Blackwater Park!!!) and then the guitar and bass play that ending-thing for several bars...