The lotus eater
par Opeth
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The liquid is in your throat
One hopeless delight
After all you fell in love with death,
Life has aborted.
All you´ve had and all you became,
The night is calling, you pray for it.
A barren waste is your land
Your crops, they were sown to die
The skin is a mirror
The eyes hollow with ignorance
Health runs from your lips
Tucked in and safe in a world of sleep
All those years caring for a liar
A benefit road that is winding higher
You´re a moth too close to the fire
You are stuck in a route of confusion
Changing and waiting and seeking the truth of it all
Fleeing your sorrows
Pushing your spirit away
The weakness of the psyche
A whisper from the heart of evil luring them all into despair
Resenting the goods of a savior
And cries out
For the restless will also die
A selection culled from the damned, drawing a lifeline of one
A friend died in your room and sought the birth of a follower
O brother, you are a killer and you target yourself
I wish you had never come back for us to see the beckoning end
And the pride of a mother brought flaws in a mother´s son
And the love from a father was used by a father´s son
Overheard us talking in a smoke of lost hope
The language of a parting so clear and so true
Overheard us talking
One hopeless delight
After all you fell in love with death,
Life has aborted.
All you´ve had and all you became,
The night is calling, you pray for it.
A barren waste is your land
Your crops, they were sown to die
The skin is a mirror
The eyes hollow with ignorance
Health runs from your lips
Tucked in and safe in a world of sleep
All those years caring for a liar
A benefit road that is winding higher
You´re a moth too close to the fire
You are stuck in a route of confusion
Changing and waiting and seeking the truth of it all
Fleeing your sorrows
Pushing your spirit away
The weakness of the psyche
A whisper from the heart of evil luring them all into despair
Resenting the goods of a savior
And cries out
For the restless will also die
A selection culled from the damned, drawing a lifeline of one
A friend died in your room and sought the birth of a follower
O brother, you are a killer and you target yourself
I wish you had never come back for us to see the beckoning end
And the pride of a mother brought flaws in a mother´s son
And the love from a father was used by a father´s son
Overheard us talking in a smoke of lost hope
The language of a parting so clear and so true
Overheard us talking