I just thought it would be intersting to get a thread going in which we offer our own interpretations of Opeth's Individual songs, sort of excluding the obvious like MAYH and Still Life and The Night And The Silent Water, which most of us know.
I have one for "Wreath", i was reading the lyrics and listening to the song and i thought the lyrics were really descriptive and have a lot of seemingly randomn images eg "Their eyes are dead, watching myself in a pool of water,, wearing the mask of a ghost...rotten earth and insects...bleeding animals in a field of fire" etc, i think that with the opening few lines he is setting it up that the character is descending into a nightmare of some sort "falling inside again, nightmare always the same, still never enough, halting at the brink of discovery" i think these lines mean it is a recurring night mare and the subject always wakes before the nightmare has reached an end and he is longing for an end. Also to supprot this the line "old memories, im not in need but wish to know" which could mean how dreams draw on experiences in the day also the "familar childrens voices, dissonant and out of time" which is like the dreamy quality and how u may hear music but cant recognize what it is etc.
anyway, the character then moves through the dream as he has before, through the sequence of images until "dust covers my coat, blend together to spell my name" and "twisted perception come true" means he has come to a point he has not seen before and in fact he is witnessing his own death in the lines "sole provider of death....to....captured in dreams connected" and once his dream is fulfilled he returns from his slumber the last "end of a search, coming of morning, returning"
anyway, something along those lines, ill try to come up with more
I have one for "Wreath", i was reading the lyrics and listening to the song and i thought the lyrics were really descriptive and have a lot of seemingly randomn images eg "Their eyes are dead, watching myself in a pool of water,, wearing the mask of a ghost...rotten earth and insects...bleeding animals in a field of fire" etc, i think that with the opening few lines he is setting it up that the character is descending into a nightmare of some sort "falling inside again, nightmare always the same, still never enough, halting at the brink of discovery" i think these lines mean it is a recurring night mare and the subject always wakes before the nightmare has reached an end and he is longing for an end. Also to supprot this the line "old memories, im not in need but wish to know" which could mean how dreams draw on experiences in the day also the "familar childrens voices, dissonant and out of time" which is like the dreamy quality and how u may hear music but cant recognize what it is etc.
anyway, the character then moves through the dream as he has before, through the sequence of images until "dust covers my coat, blend together to spell my name" and "twisted perception come true" means he has come to a point he has not seen before and in fact he is witnessing his own death in the lines "sole provider of death....to....captured in dreams connected" and once his dream is fulfilled he returns from his slumber the last "end of a search, coming of morning, returning"
anyway, something along those lines, ill try to come up with more
hehe I'm bored...