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Uploaded on May 30, 2009

Song: The Lotus Eater
Artist: Opeth
Album: Watershed
Year: 2008



*****Lyrics*****

Liquid is in your throat,
For 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 forth.

The barren waste is your land,
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 years caring for a liar.
Benefit road is winding higher.
You're a moth to 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

Sick of the weakness of the psyche
Whisper from the heart of evil
Luring them all into despair
Resenting the goods of a savior

Cries out
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

Oh Brother!
You are a killer
And you target yourself

I wish that 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 our parting
So clear and so true

Overheard us talking

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  • Archferumphis

    Gotta love the blast beat combined with clean vocals! 0:21

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  • PhoeniTheGamingGuy

    YOLO

    (You Obviously Love Opeth)

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  • erwinweber

    best 240p

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  • Dom W

    Oh this is awsm

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  • EuriLochus

    I bet people are jumping in line to be your friend.

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  • MrXavier0899

    Dat intro!

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  • KnocturneKnightmare

    I don't think its supposed to refer to the literal Lotus eaters depicted in The Odyssey, but instead the actual concept of a 'Lotus eater' which I think that the lyrics explore wonderfully.

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  • ThePlagueFoREVer1228

    Mikael Akerfeldt is amazing

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  • NewWorldMan1000

    and, no knowledge of music either...brilliant song!

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  • TheJevb69

    i remember the day i first heard this song.. changed my life. <3

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  • Adam Garnett

    This doesn't make me think of the Lotus eaters in The Odyssey... or even the most sublime - Tennyson's Lotos Eaters. I'd say that this is an artistic failure but an alright song.

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  • abracadaver8

    as a big opeth fan, too, you have to listen to The Faceless - Deconsecrate... technical death metal with clear vocals, too, and even a saxophone solo in it :D

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