opeth lyrics as poems
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Anything from MAYH or Still Life.
Especially The Amen Corner:
White summer.
So far I have gone to see you again.
Hiding your face in the palm of your hands.
Finding solace in the words I do despise.
You snatch at every sound.
And even though you believe that I am shackled within death,
memories are tainted with paleness.
Crestfallen still.
Those eyes... empty like a barren well.
It was the only task I would undertake.
To reap the harvest that was mine.
The seed that had sprung into a florid meadow,
and left me helpless in your embrace.
The bond we never spoke of, once stark and enticing,
now slowly smoldering to dust.
The celestial touch, from grey to black.
A fathomless void enclosing.
Unwritten secrets beneath the cobwebs.
I can not endure.
And so I rose from my sleep.
The moon turned away its face.
Overture of the long, black night begins...
something you said: "Eerie circles upon the waters".
Until now we have shared the same aura.
My ashes within your hands.
My breath in the sepulchral mound.
You know that your night is my day.
The final spark that blew life into me,
the demon of the fall.
Especially The Amen Corner:
White summer.
So far I have gone to see you again.
Hiding your face in the palm of your hands.
Finding solace in the words I do despise.
You snatch at every sound.
And even though you believe that I am shackled within death,
memories are tainted with paleness.
Crestfallen still.
Those eyes... empty like a barren well.
It was the only task I would undertake.
To reap the harvest that was mine.
The seed that had sprung into a florid meadow,
and left me helpless in your embrace.
The bond we never spoke of, once stark and enticing,
now slowly smoldering to dust.
The celestial touch, from grey to black.
A fathomless void enclosing.
Unwritten secrets beneath the cobwebs.
I can not endure.
And so I rose from my sleep.
The moon turned away its face.
Overture of the long, black night begins...
something you said: "Eerie circles upon the waters".
Until now we have shared the same aura.
My ashes within your hands.
My breath in the sepulchral mound.
You know that your night is my day.
The final spark that blew life into me,
the demon of the fall.
Lietuvis
Member
All of Opeth is very lyrical and poetic... you could adapt almost any of their songs into a poem.
Apostle In Triumph
I engulf the skies
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A. Iverson
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A. Iverson
deceased
Jude
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Most Opeth songs are so rhyme-free and random seeming that they're too loose to really be poetry.annt said:
Personally I think most "free verse" poetry is a cop out. Might as well just write prose.
Anyway, not that it's a bad thing, but I don't think most Opeth lyrics would really work as poems. They just aren't written for it and without the music, they don't really have the same effect.
Jude
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Lots of great traditional poetry is restricted to rhymes or other strict forms, like sonnets.annt said:
And rhyming is more important in music IMO. A song where nothing rhymes at all is really missing something lyrically. This includes a lot of songs on Orchid, which are not exactly lyrical masterpieces.
Jude
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How awesome would it be if Opeth made an album where the lyrics were Beowulf put to music?amaranth said:You're missing out the epic Beowulf, that's sprung rhythm, not very restrictive!
Oops, better relate this to opeth... opeth
And I bet Beowulf rhymed in the original
all_sins_undone
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Jude said:
You still don't know what a poem actually is. Anything can be poetic, and anything can be poetry.
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