"The Drapery Falls" or "The Drapery Falls"?

[Windward]

Is it like... a waterfall made of drapery instead of water? Or does it mean that the drapery is falling...???

 

[Prophet178]

I always thought of it as in a theater, the drapery being the curtain. A drapery falling is usually a symbol for closure or ending. At least thats how i've always viewed it.

 

[wut wut]

I always thought of it as a waterfall named after some set of curtains. I never even considered the possibility that it could be about an actual drapery.... falling.

 

[Lateralus14]

Why would a an album full of death metal subject matter have a song about a fucking poorly named waterfall?

 

[HemeHaci]

I always thought of it as in a theater, the drapery being the curtain. A drapery falling is usually a symbol for closure or ending. At least thats how i've always viewed it.

This is reasonable. Also I have thought like truth being uncovered.

 

[Chinese Whispers]

I always thought of the 'drapery falling' as a metaphor for a secret or something being kept hidden finally being revealed (from, er...behind drapes obviously :Smug - like a behind the mask type of deal.

 

[cuntface]

LOLLLL

 

[Anesthetize]

Ya'll trolls postin' in a nigga thread.

 

[Lateralus14]

Hope Leaves could be talking about leaves from a tree too but um...yea its probably not, just a hunch

 

[cuntface]

ya deleted chinesed post as no makes sense

 

[Anesthetize]

so guise is "demon of the fall" about a demon who is falling or is it about a demon from the season of fall??????

also, is ghost of perdition about a ghost from perdition or is it about a ghost (shadow, echo, remnant) of perdition???????

THERE ARE SO MANY UNANSWERED QUESTIONS

 

[cuntface]

pretty much, none of it makes actually any sense.................... and in europe no one calls it fall so it wouldn't be that.

 

[GSRbass_89]

Why would a an album full of death metal subject matter have a song about a fucking poorly named waterfall?

Haha have you noticed that quite a bit of Opeth lyrics talk about fuckin landscape, nature and shit mixed with death metal themes?! So if Drapery Falls is about a waterfall wouldn't actually suprise me.

 

[NeverIsForever]

I can't believe there's actually a thread about this. But if Mikael or anyone from the band still reads this forum, I hope they post here to tell you that if they were going to name an imaginary waterfall they could do a little better than "Drapery." Good grief

 

[Silent Dance With Death]

I visited Drapery Falls last summer, actually.

 

[Snusgropen]

It's clearly an actual drapery falling.

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[Savern]

Well its pretty fucking obvious. As for deeper meanings its always made me think of the curtain being ripped apart in the temple as Jesus died.

 

[Kamel]

THIS AUTUMN VISIT DRAPERY FALLS - GET SPECIAL DISCOUNTS AT WWW.OPETH.COM

 

[hexwind]

I always thought of the 'drapery falling' as a metaphor for a secret or something being kept hidden finally being revealed (from, er...behind drapes obviously :Smug - like a behind the mask type of deal.

Same here

 

[pyr0rrzzz]

Although the main riff resembles a waterfall a lot it's probably just the mentioned metaphor.