Watershed Lyrics From Mikael

[Salavace]

No problem smh

 

[BrandonS]

Mike says "I found that the years passed us by" on Coil

It just sounds like find because he says it in a southern accent.

Like 'Fi-ound'

 

[Annadome_Erraen]

Some fixes regarding the Delerict Herds (what a name, anyway!)

Derelict Herds
I heard it from her friend

I'm sure it's from my friend

A war waged in a distant land
A cross beats (…?)

It's something like:
A war raged in a distant land
And caused me to leave it all in a piece of (…?)

There was a meeting
An invitation of sorts
I remember leaving
I was sick with some whore
I’d fallen asleep
And dreamt of my sins here
It was (?)
The woman smiled and said, “Thank you…” (Not sure about the first two words here)

This one hard to get, but I'm 100% sure about some parts:
There was a mean time
........
I remember life I (100%)
I was sick with sorrow (100%)

I fell astray (not so sure)
And dragged to my (center?) (not sure at all)

While I shuttered in the cold

While I shouted(?) in the cold

 

[BigDrahma]

I hear "seeking decadence with a dagger..." maybe?

After listening to this about 50 times, how about:
"Seeking tenderness with a dagger" -- a mother's love twisted by hate, perhaps?

on second thought, it doesn't sound like that... really it sounds like "seeking tetheners" with is kind of a nonsense word or a mangling of tether or seeking their nethers or sink into nethers or something... I dunno if I wanna think about nethers and daggers right now.

 

[BrandonS]

Maybe Mike thought the plural of tethers was tetheners?

 

[Mantraschism]

I was thinking, 'Seeking contenders with a dagger.'

 

[Fragon]

"seeking ten burgers with a dagger" lol I still enjoy this one

 

[Mantraschism]

Nevermind, he's definitely saying, 'Seeking tenderness with a dagger.'

 

[anarchy420]

Mike says "I found that the years passed us by" on Coil

It just sounds like find because he says it in a southern accent.

Like 'Fi-ound'

i'm pretty sure he says "i'll find", cause i found doesn't make sense in the tense of "when i get out of here", he's speaking in the future tense. when i get out of here, when i leave you behind, i'll find that the years passed us by

 

[isolation_years]

someone should start a new thread and sticky it when the lyrics are for sure correct

 

[NicholasDWolfwood]

Mike says "I found that the years passed us by" on Coil

It just sounds like find because he says it in a southern accent.

Like 'Fi-ound'

iirc these lyrics are from the code in the booklet...why would they put the wrong lyrics in?

 

[Unbelievable21]

Derelict Herds

...
I heard it from her friend
A war waged in a distant land
A cross beats (…?)
Someone died
Not here, never here
...

I thought it was "from a friend" as well.
And I also think it's "It caused me to linger on in ? text"

someone should start a new thread and sticky it when the lyrics are for sure correct

lol, I think the only way that will happen is if Mikael releases the absolutely correct lyrics to every song, and then it would be pointless to do so.


ALSO, I have a question. How did you guys decipher this? Was there some sort of actual key you worked from, or did you take previous lyrics that you knew, and worked from there (using this as a key).

 

[demonofthefall6469]

As the song seems to be about disconnection, could the missing Hessian Peel line possibly be 'Seeking tethers with a dagger'?

OPer: Thanks for the work you put into this. I did 9 lines of the regular edition code and then boredom usurped my curiousity.

I'm pretty sure it's "seeking tenderness with a dagger," but there are so many other guesses that I could be wrong. I don't know, seems to fit with all the lyrics about children and abandonment in the rest of the song.

 

[Salavace]

Very nice guys, relistening to the song I think you've definitely fixed a lot of mistakes I made.

 

[Narek]

I thought it was "from a friend" as well.
And I also think it's "It caused me to linger on in ? text"

I think he says, "It caused me to linger on a piece of text." Either linger or leer.

 

[Nailed Reaper]

My attempt on describing "Derelict Herds". Based on Salavace's first text.

Someone died for looking too far
While I was asleep in my house
A child was killed - I heard it from a friend
A war raged in a distant land and caused me to linger on a piece of test

Someone died
Not here, never here

There is a fever
There is a failure
Are you a believer?
But someone lied to you

You hold it closer to your chest
There was a meaning for this test
But you forgot and it’s gone now
You were controlled somehow

There was a mean time
An invitation of sorts
I remember life I
I was sick with sorrow

I’d fallen asleep
And dreamt of my sins here
It was your turn
Adamant smiled and said "Thank you…"

There was a sickness right in the family
While I shuttered in the cold
Woman hanged for her sins while I cribbed my eye
An old man drowned in this life herd as I made amends with my fathers

Someone died
Not here, never here

 

[Rogue Eagle]

Oh. My gosh.
Heir Apparent lyrics omg!!

Though not my favourite song on the album the lyrics are undeniably the best!

 

[_Serenity_Painted_Death_]

Quite intense.

 

[Obtuse]

I remember Mike saying he was going to hang on to the lyrics "for a while longer".
Do you think we'll ever see something official from the Man?

 

[NicholasDWolfwood]

I remember Mike saying he was going to hang on to the lyrics "for a while longer".
Do you think we'll ever see something official from the Man?

Pretty much everything's been deciphered save for a line or two in a couple of songs.