Lyrically, your favorite Opeth song?

[Lethe78]

In the Mist...
Silent Water
To Bid You Farewell

 

[Rusty]

Originally posted by Moonlapse
Face of Melinda, no doubt. Those cheesy lyrics toward the end get me every time.

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Originally posted by Silver Raven
To Bid You Farewell....I relate so many different things in my life to that song.

 

[Opet]

I'd have to go with When. The whole albums concept is what I like about Opeth. The fear.

 

[Nico16]

The lyrics in Wreath don't make sense to me at all...but they aren't the only ones

Does anyone of you understand them? (I haven't found a thread about the lyrics of Deliverance yet...)

 

[catastrophe]

Bleak!

 

[ether]

To Bid you Farewell
The Night and the Silent Water

 

[demon talented]

Likely, "To Bid You Farewell."

But most lyrics (Opeth definitely included) are not meant to be read alone, so it can be awkward reading it in that manner... (besides rhythms are usually very different than they are on lyric sheets).

 

[svenske kocken]

I think Wreath is about a dream or something. A dark and twisted dream.
Look at the first two lines:
"Falling inside again
This nightmare always the same"

 

[FlatteningOfEmotions]

The Night and the Silent Water
To Bid you Farewell
April Ethereal
The Moor

 

[poldarn]

Originally posted by Nico16
The lyrics in Wreath don't make sense to me at all...but they aren't the only ones

Does anyone of you understand them? (I haven't found a thread about the lyrics of Deliverance yet...)

I picture a man who's returning to an old mansion, maybe his childhood home, to find answers to some questions of the past.

"Old memories, I'm not in need but wish to know"

"What are the tragedies, the history behind the walls"

While he's in the house he gets visions/flashbacks.....or ghosts...

"Familiar children's laughter, dissonant and out of time and their eyes are dead"

"Watching myself in a pool of water, wearing the mask of a ghost"

Maybe a serialkiller was active under his childhood years? Or maybe he himself was a killer?

"Sole provider of death"

"Human harvest burning"

At the end of the song, he dismisses it all and returns to where he came from.

"Closure to bleak matters - I'm leaving
End of a search"

"Coming of morning - Returning"

 

[Staffan]

night silent water

It's so beautiful!

 

[Punisher]

ALSO april ethereal and the moor.

 

[sands of the seas]

Advent or Deliverance

I especially love the lyrics on Deliverance.
There's just something twisted and disturbing about the way Mike sings.

Tell me how your heart's in need
As I drown you in the sea

Awesome song!

 

[shivering corpse]

yeah deliverance is kind of twisted song!
especially that part because it sounds so sweet and soft, but you listen to the lyrics and he's fucking killing someone

 

[Stinkfist]

The whole of MAYH.

 

[BiatchGuy]

The Leper Affinity has some sick lyrics.

 

[your_fate]

demon of the fall
pretty suggestive lyric...shivers...

 

[Immortality]

April Ethereal

 

[MetalHeadMarc]

Black rose Imuthafuckingmortal

 

[MetalHeadMarc]

lol, i said "imuthafuckingmortal"