Opeth Lyrics

[HazeM*]

Fave opeth lyrics?

I really can't decide for example il say 1 day

The Moor - "i was foul tainted...."

then the next day its Blackwater Park

"the sun sets foreva..."

And is constantly changing so whats your fave opeth lyrics and it might sound gay but what meaning do they hold for you.

ps) this thread is a cant be bothered to sleep so il spam forums thread

 

[daz436]

'Lost Track Of Time'

a fair judgement...not cos of the words.. cos of how its sung.. shivvers down the spine lads

 

[Nobiss]

The Night And The Silent Water

And so you left us
Jaded and gaunt, some September
Wilted with the seasons
But hidden inside the delusion
I saw you eyes, somewhere
Devoid of death
The aura poises amidst (the storm)
In solid tears I linger
A parlour glade, moonlit sorrow
Lonely resting pools
Relics of the moon-dogged lake
Whisper: All your words are missgiven
Am I like them?
Those who mourn and turn away
Those who would give anything
To see you again
If only for another second
Your face was, like the photograph
Painted white
We did not speak very often about it
What does it matter now?
Cloak of autumn shroud
I gaze, dim ricochet of stars
I reckon it is time for me to leave
You sleep in the light
Yet the night and the silent water
Still so dark

The parts in bold I especially like in this song. As for the ending part, I just love how it's sung. Great song about loss imo.

 

[Nobiss]

I also love To Bid You Farewell more than I could explain. One of my favorite songs. I love the lyrics of this whole song, I just love the song as a whole -

I am awaiting the sunrise
Gazing modestly through the coldest morning
Once it came you lied
Embracing us over autumn's proud treetops
I stand motionless
In a parade of falling rain
Your voice I cannot hear
As I am falling again
Devotion eludes
And in sadness I lumber
In my own ashes I am standing without a soul
She wept and whispered: "I know..."
We walked into the night
Am I to bid you farewell?
Why can't you see that I try
When every tear I shed
Is for you

 

[Jude]

I took her by the hand to say
All faith forever has been washed away
I returned for you in great dismay
Come with me, far away to stay

Endlessly gazing in nocturnal prime
She spoke of her vices and broke the rhyme
But baffled herself with the final line
My promise is made but my heart is thine

(Face of Melinda)

Lost are the days of Spring
You sighed and let me in

(Leper Affinity)
..I guess I like those more because of the melody and guitar part there than the actual lyrics but whatever.

And of course...

I have kept it
The amaranth symbol
Hidden inside the golden shrine
Until we rejoice in the meadow
Of the end
When we both walk the shadows
It will set ablaze and vanish
Black rose immortal

It is getting dark again
Dusk shuffle across the fields
The evening trees moan as if they knew
At night I always dream of you

(BRI)

Love it!

 

[Sean Casey]

some of my favorite lines:

"You are everything, they are nothing..." - BOTH
"As they die alone, with no one by their side, are they forgiven?" - R/HF

anything from the Damnation album

 

[Braighs]

Anything on Morningrise and

Under your command, I will obey.......made of stone.
I love the bass on "stone".

and "let loose your hair, discard your clothes..."

 

[Pirate Drummer]

Does anyone know what is being said at the end of "by the pain I see in others" on the Deliverance album? Ime talking about the words he speaks after the main song, starting somewhere around 12 minutes into the track, what language is that?

 

[tynkkr]

BRI after it turns soft a little before 9:00. My favorite part being the last two lines, but I really love this whole section.


Eyes attach to your mute portrait
We spoke only through thoughts
Together we gazed, awaited
Hours brought thirst and the rising sun

Sunbirds leave their dark recesses
Shadows glid the archways

Do not turn your face towards me
Confronting me with my lonliness
You are in a forest unknown
The secret orchard
And your voice is vast and achromatic
But still so precious


As far as the end of 'By the pain I see in others', check the lyrics here, they're just backwards.

http://www.darklyrics.com/lyrics/opeth/deliverance.html#6

 

[Fenlenus]

I like the end of Black Rose Immortal.

"It is getting dark again
Dusk shuffle across the fields
The evening trees moan as if they knew
At night I always dream of you"

A lot of others too, but I really dig the last verse of Ghost of Perdition too.

"If one cut the source of the flow
And everything would change
Would conviction fall
In the shadow of the righteous
The phantasm of your mind
Might be calling you to go
Defying the forgotten morals
Where the victim is the prey"

 

[Anarkissed]

"When can we scream instead of whisper?" etc.

I put that as my yearbook quote.

 

[martyrs_price]

"I'm not afraid, of what you have just done. But what you've just become."

 

[BANNEDadrian]

deadly badgers

 

[miss defni]

*****
Pull me down again and guide me into pain
*****
Losing sleep, in too deep
Fading sun, what have I done?
Came so close to what I need most
Nothing left here
*****
We enter winter once AGAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIN! (I think Opeth is the best winter music there is, it seems to sound better when its frosty and dark outside)
*****
I can't see the meaning of this life I'm leading
I try to forget you as you forgot me
This time there is nothing left for you to take, this
is goodbye
*****
speak to me now and the world will crumble
open the door and the moon will fall
all of your life
all your memories
go to your dreams
forget it all
*****
In the rays of the sun I am longing for the darkness
*****

 

[Pethical]

id have to say a fair judgement as well. that deffinately gets the tears going

 

[miss defni]

id have to say a fair judgement as well. that deffinately gets the tears going

god yeah >.<

<3

 

[Kenneth R.]

the clean section on drapery, windowpane (all of it), devious movements (bleak)

 

[soundave]

Love the concept of "Wearing my deathmask at birth" from the Moor.

 

[Indrid Cold]

"In the pouring rain, nothing is the same" ~The Moor

ohhh yeeeeaaahhhh

 

[Puzzlebox]

Mikael is an awesome frontman with enough grasp of english language to write decent lyrics. Most of his lyrics are amazing, the only line that bugs me is from R/HF

Into the trees
Past meadow grounds
And further away from my home
Baying behind me
I hear the hounds
Flock's chasing to find me alone


Flock's to describe a pack of dogs seems pretty strange to me. It looks like he used a thesaurus to look up a different word for "group" and picked a wrong one. But maybe i am missing something...

Everything about Opeth are amazing and they are head and shoulders above anything else!