what does it mean?

[the opeth affinity]

my arms, your hearse.
a great album as we all know but what does my arms your hearse mean, if anything?

 

[Braighs]

COMUS: "First Utterance" (1971)

DRIP DRIP

You dangling swinging
Hanging spinning aftermath
Your soft white flesh turns past me slaked with blood
Your evil eyes more damning than a Demon’s curse
Your lovely body soon caked with mud
As I carry you to your grave my arms your hearse
You stand before me defenceless
Your stare-unchanging silent, cold, intense sears my brain
Drip drip from your sagging lip
Liquid red down your body spread
Your soft breast glistens your deep navel fountains
Your shadow over chair like a plane over mountains
In a clearing where the sunrays dance amongst the forest’s dense secrets

You will softly rest your pale beauty enshrined by the sweet glade
Your body at peace even the earth will till the crack where entered my
blade
Yea, shall I cut you down
Yes 'twould be a last physical communion
I'll be gentle and not hurt you

 

[Braighs]

The album is somewhat of a ghost story with music. It´s about the death of things, trying to affect people from the other side, and even trying to bring the living with you. Hence the title, which wasn´t really my idea. I found it on a record by an old folk band called Comus. The entire line was "As I carry you to your grave, my arms your hearse", and that pretty much sums up the meaning of the album. ~ quoting Mikael

 

[Disgustipated]

And well.. Even without having heard that explanation, it's pretty self-explanatory, isn't it? Replace the comma with the word 'are'.

 

[the opeth affinity]

nice one Braighs, cheers

 

[Dante's Inferno]

Haha, I almost tought Braighs was Mikael there, until I saw the quote. Lol...

 

[the opeth affinity]

me to

 

[ChrisEmerson]

i thought it was obvious?

 

[Yoda]

Oooh, I have to find that Comus song.

 

[the opeth affinity]

i thought it was obvious?

ooohhhhhh, i wish i was as perceptive as you