Amorphis - Better Unborn

From the album "Elegy" (1996)

Better it would be for me
And better it would have been
Had I not been born, not grown
Not been brought into the world
Not had to come to this earth
Not been suckled for the world

If I'd died a three-night-old
Been lost in my swaddling hand
I'd have needed but a span of cloth
A span more of wood,
But a cubit of good earth
Two words from the priest
Three verses from the cantor
One clang from the bell

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• amorphis
• elegy
• better
• unborn
• metal

[PrinceOfAsgard]

I love all Amorphis Albums news & olds but Elegy & Tales from the Thousend Lakes i think is the best albums ever .........

[Rikuzzz]

Had I not been born; not grown - not brought into this world.

Damn this is like the most epic song I've heard in a while. And it's actually not that normal "depressing" bullshit - a'la "CUT MY WRISTS AND BLACK MY EYES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:

[Rorschached]

@Rikuzzz Not depressing? You must not have read the lyrics :P The entire song is about him saying how he'd be better off dead.

[yutumefolla]

I'd rather die, I'd rather be better unborn"

swaddling band "not hand

[BroadwayRonMexico]

@texasproof And there's a few places in this song where Pasi sounds like eerily like Layne Staley from Alice in Chains

[AmxCsifier]

Arabic scales are the best !! this song besides "Dream Theater - Home" and "FloodLine - Constant Flow" are just the best !!

[boyo416]

NWO i Bettar (od) Unborn

[texasproof]

Sounds like Suidakra meets Dark Tranquility meets Metallica

[Abrimaal]

@187cyco Ye right - "but a span of cloth" - buy original CDs not mp3 :P

[2610DMJ]

The Siren by Nightwish kinda confuse me..

[87erratic]

Tales from thousand lakes & elegy!

[anahowana]

this song is eargasmic, it's so mystic, i feel like if im deep in a state if trance but without any fuckin drugs or chemical stuff. cheers from Morocco.