Opeth - The Drapery Falls (Audio)
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- Опубліковано 15 лис 2016
- Opeth - The Drapery Falls (Audio)
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Lyrics
Please remedy my confusion
And thrust me back to the day
The silence of your seclusion
Brings night into all you say
Pull me down again
And guide me into pain
I'm counting nocturnal hours
Drowned visions in haunted sleep
Faint flickering of your powers
Leaks out to show what you keep
Pull me down again
And guide me into
There is failure inside
This test I can't persist
Kept back by the enigma
No criterias demanded here
Deadly patterns made my wreath
Prosperous in your ways
Pale ghost in the corner
Pouring a caress on your shoulder
Puzzled by shrewd innocence
Runs a thick tide beneath
Ushered into inner graves
Nails bleeding from the struggle
It is the end for the weak at heart
Always the same
A lullaby for the ones who've lost all
Reeling inside
My gleaming eye in your necklace reflects
Stare of primal regrets
You turn your back and you walk away
Never again
Spiralling to the ground below
Like Autumn leaves left in the wake to fade
away
Waking up to your sound again
And lapse into the ways of misery
If he listens to this marry him.
Cringe, sorry
@@qwerty975 replying Cringe is also cringe... 🤣
@@Nickday112 yeah very funny ha ha
I listen to this but it only matters to me. Only I can feel the depth in my own way .
But I'm a straight male.. I'm confused
Blackwater Park is one of the best albums of all time. No question.
Absolutely. I was big into metal when I was like 18 but for the past 6 years or so I have moved on to many other genres and wouldn’t really call myself a metalhead anymore, but still to me Blackwater Park is definitely one of those few records that is just undeniably one of the all time greats across any genre.
No doubt sir
Opeth just knows how to write amazing chord progressions with awesome mixing
Agreed. A decade has passed since i discovered Opeth and i always have them on repeat, this whole album is such a class act masterpiece and will never get old.
@@teodora5377 Fax. Every time I listen to this goldmine of an album is like the first time. Absolute masterpiece.
That intro/outro is one of the most beautiful things sounds can produce
❤ 🤝
Oh how I miss old Opeth...so dark and brooding...so deep and beautiful. No band will ever create music like this again.
try aquilus
It's so much more than "what the old opeth used to be"
go listen to In Mourning, also a great progressive death metal band from sweden
@@marcusdewith6539 I love In Mourning! I think if you are an Opeth fan, you will love it.
Bands such as gojira and Jinjer are making some good new music
I love the bassline on the main riff.
It's like a silent scream
yes there is really something in that bassline
You're the only one with ears musical enough to fuckin hear it lol
I had an incredible online friend who introduced me to Opeth. This was the first song he sent me - in spite of being a life long heavy metal fan, I was new to the death growl. My first thought? " What the hell did you send me??" The second listen made me a fan. I even have their logo tattooed on my forearm. My friend passed almost two years ago, but he will never be forgotten and is very much missed. I think of him every time I listen to Opeth
2:16 "please remedy my computer"
Mikael must have had some pretty bad malware on his PC
Wahhhhahaha
Legit laughed while working. thank you
I laughed harder than I should have at this. Take my upvote
Lmao XD
:*(
I was born a metalhead but growls were not my thing... until one day about ten years ago. I had a random list on UA-cam and this song came up. The world of Opeth just exploded in my life.
I still don't like growls, but I accept Opeth ones!
It was a beautiful thing, right? I was in the same boat. My introduction to Opeth was The Roundhouse Tapes. I couldn't stand the harsh vocals, but the musicianship along with Mikael's cleans just blew me away and then...down the rabbit hole i went
Me too. The growls actually scare me but this is such a masterpiece that I accept them.
Ever heard of Ghost?
@@mastodon0124 After listening to Blackwater Park I became a huge fan of Opeth. So I have bought all their LPs. Yes, Ghost of Prediction is also a great song!
Opeth's darkest, most chilling, most brooding, and most emotionally heavy song ever. Nothing short of a masterpiece.
Incredible how Blackwater Park is so stacked with masterpiece songs and layers of unforgettable melodies. 10/10 album
This is one of the most underrated bands
fart souls
I honestly think it really helped that Steven Wilson was behind the producing of it. It's a brilliant album. November is the best time to put it on again
The lyrics perfectly describe what a relationship with a narcissist is like
That mid-song instrumental passage is godly. The Drapery doesn’t just fall it shows so much.
The transition from the growls directly into clean vocals is unmatched in my book, such a unique masterpiece
For me it's the transition from clean vocals for the first part of the song into growls around 5 minutes
THERE IS FAILURE INSIDE
HE STANDS FOR LEPRESY
GET BACK FOR THE ENIGMA
NO QUIET INTERIOR IS SANITARY
DEVIL AND BASTARDS, MAKE MY WAY
THERE'S A GHOST IN THE CORNER
POURING OUT THE REST OF YOUR SODA
When this track hits on crisp autumn day, there's simply no other feeling like it.
I'm here on a crisp autumn night and you're absolutely fuckin correct
9:49 when the double bass comes I feel my heart melting
Opeth is the best thing ever happened to my music taste by far.
Opeth and Gojira for me
Opeth, Gojira and Meshuggah for me
Opeth, Gojira, Meshuggah and tool for me
@@fdrums046 opeth, gojira, meshuggah , tool and sigur ros for me
Opeth, Gojira, (not) Meshuggah, (not) Sigur Ros and Leprous for me
the opening riff is orgasmic to my ears.
Soly I was listening to the song for the first time and thinking “Is it possible for a song to make you orgasm.”
it's from steven wilson
eargasmic
To my ears as well.
I could listen to the intro in a loop for hours.
Is it just me or does this album get better each time I hear it? Nuance, tempo... chord progression. Magnificent. Redefined my definition "Death Metal". My first introduction into Opeth, Blackwater Park. Can't wait to go down this rabbit hole.
I've revisited the album more or less yearly for around a decade, and it does get better with age and a healthy amount of listening sessions.
I'm envious you get /got to discover Still Life and Ghost Reveries after listening to Blackwater park for the first time. All 3 are equally genius with enough variety to make each of em unique albums., the best proggy/experiemental death metal albums ever. Some of the best albums I've ever heard in any genre. Check out Katatonia - The Great Cold Distance and Edge of Sanity - Crimson II as well - and then the rest of their discographies. Just other Swedish death metal with prog/experiemental flair and influences all over the place.
That's one deep hole
First time I listened to it was 2009 and here I am doing it again... it sounds better than ever today
No....it does.
i'm finally falling...🤘🏼🔑🦋❤️🔥 #betterlatethannever
Criminally underrated man. One of my favorite vocalists of all time, beauty and the beast.
the intro riff's gotta be the emotionally heaviest non heavy riff of all time
Caio Andrade try Dirge For November
🤣👌🏼✅
the chord progression is really clever too
@@joeyhardin5903 Mikael is a master of those sus's and add's!
@@discomfort5760 just the tonality itself. Cm B♭m7 A♭m7 B♭m B♭m/D♭ is just really nice
3:56 - 4:07 that whole section is on another level
5:20 DEADLY BADGERS MADE MY WEEEED
That bassline in the intro is ridiculously good. Some people focus on the guitars but it's the bass that makes the opening section so atmospheric imo
Meh
Yesssss
The bass is incredible in this song.
YES.
here, Here... i'm a bass chick all the way - plus drums #tribal ... just began my journey into opeth this year
Almost 20 years have passed ... an album that is close to perfection
I’m old3
Why u have to say this
Not close to, it the very definition of perfection!
if it's not perfection, what is it missing?
This song is so epic, I literally have to stop what I'm doing and just focus on it's badassness...
jesus christ the bass is so yum
My interpretation is that this song is about an abusive relationship and the narrator is the one suffering abuse.
You can see how it lacks self-esteem (please remedy my confusion / a pale ghost in the corner pouring a caress on your shoulder), grieves his absence (the silence of your seclusion brings night into all you say), sees the other as a godlike creature (faint flickering of your power leaks out to show what you keep) while still recognizing how painful this relationship is (pull me down again and guide me into pain / there is failure inside this test I can't persist).
The struggle makes it try to escape (nails bleeding for the struggle / it is the end for the weak at heart / a lullaby for the ones who've lost all reeling inside) and ultimately it confronts the other (my gleaming eye in your necklace reflects, stare of primal regrets) and the other simply turns around and leaves.
Which causes the narrator to fall on the ground, just to wake up by the calling of the abuser and "lapse into the ways of misery".
Then it all starts again, and that's when the main riff returns.
This band is out of this world.
the first song I ever heard for Opeth, it was love at first note..
MashAllah bro
Same, and it's still their absolute best imo. It's been more than 10 years that im listening to them and not a single day goes by without me listening to it, and i listen to the whole album at least once a week. No other musician in human kind's history will ever match the divine artform which is Opeth's music.
This band is totally genius.
Lindgren and Lopez. A great lineup that was.
Better than tool
@@gregtheflyingwhale6480 100x better than tool
@@gregtheflyingwhale6480 agreed. Much more complex. Id argue lightly that Danny Carey is perhaps a more "technical" drummer than Mendez, but Opeth trumps them in all other areas. Imho
@@gregtheflyingwhale6480 totally different. It’s apples vs. oranges.
I just want to say that this band is exquisite.
Just like Corn Flakes® with just enough milk.
The first time I heard the song it felt like I've always heard it.
It's the kind of music that's already inside you.
A dark horror, hope and light, drowning darkness and the strength to carry on.
I love this comment. Also hope you’re doing alright, my friend.
@@thecalmboi4236 I'm doing better. Spending more time in the light.
Holy big goddamn *FUCK!* - I just discovered this in 2020 and it's the best thing quarantine has given me so far. I'm blown away to my socks.
Me too man. I just started 2 weeks back so i would love if u recommend what to hear.
@@chikenspongebob5434 There's no going wrong with this record, you'd do yourself a favor by listening beginning to end. This song is actually a great foreshadowing of how the album has heavy stuff juxtaposed with softer emotional stuff.
@@XistoKente thanks man. The only 2 albums i have heard in entirety till now are Still Life and My Arm Your Hearse.
Jolly ol St. Quarantine
oh my, welcome to the party
I don't know why, but this introduction made me cry because this song made me remember something from a past that will never come back.
Thank God for that right? It's in the past for a reason
Me too buddy
That s the opath effect
maybe the thing from your past that will never come back is Mikael Akerfeldt doing death metal vocals :'(
I love how the mood of the song changes at 5:04 as soon Mikael’s growls make their presence.
Se vuelve más oscura la ambientación
One of the best metal instrumental tantrums of all time follows.
That transition at 8:42... Immortal.
This album is ageless... 🖤
Still as hauntingly beautiful as the first time I heard it. Opeth's music washes over you like a wave of dread and ethereal melancholy. "Pull me down again and guide me into..." that moment at 3:55 is always incredible. My favorite on Blackwater Park.
no
@@gillesrillette8291 what did you mean by this
Precisely the part that guided me into Opeth :)
I read this right at 3:55. Sweet
Played this song at my fathers funeral
RIP dad, still think of you when I hear it
That is a beautiful choice, I'm sorry you had such a loss, keep going my friend
@@beauarthur2617 Crazy to see this today, as it's his anniversary
4/27/2004
@@ZacktheImpaler hopefully its a good message from somewhere to get you through a tough day, much love friend
Bless You... a toast to your Father 🌹
"The silence of your seclusion, brings night into all you say..."
I heard this on shuffle in a metal playlist and holy shit… I am blown away this is beautiful music. My #1 band of all time is Tool so this instantly clicked with me and am now a big fan of this band!
Can you send me this playlist
@@invertedthrills144 yes please
The thinking man's metal!🖤🤔
Bleak>Harvest>Drapery Falls is an absolute tour de force of music. Beautiful, brutal,melodic. Probably the peak of Opeth
Coincidentally, these are the three songs in BWP Steven Wilson did vocals for.
Burden is also great
the leper affinity dude..
i concur 👏🏼🔱❤️🔥
idk man, it's pretty hard to top the Moonlapse Vertigo>Face Of Melinda>Serenity Painted Death journey on Opeth mountain. but it's pretty close!
If she listens to this. Marry Her.
She's my mom. Seriously :-)
@@u.v.s.5583 Then Sweet Home Alabama
im listening to this now... with my WIFE....i LOVE her...
Thers a chick here in one of these Opeth song comments who's parent's both loved Opeth so much, they named Her Opeth.Can't remember which track it was, one of the really mellow songs off Damnation I believe.(I know that doesn't narrow it down too much)
Opeth Cordova was her name.
@@_BLACKSTAR_ I saw one of her (Opeth Cordova's) comments on the video for Era from the Sorceress record.
i never thought i would describe a song as both beautiful and brutal.
i just discovered them last night.
A little late, but finally you find my beloved Opeth. Cheers hope you enjoy them as much as many of us!! 🤘
@@abigaillkruss8823 I still do. Isolation years is one of my favorites
Try another.. The Faceless😉
Music is all highly personal I guess, I love the fact that everyone can come up with their own interpretation. That being said I'd like to share what it means to me without dismissing anyone else's ideas:
When I close my eyes while listening to the opening/closing part I always see a waterfall. The acoustic guitar in the beginning sounds like the gentle streaming of the river up top. The noise slowly approaches over the horizon through that one pressing note... then it all tumbles over into chaos. The general 'wall of sound' and the prominent bass line (perhaps not loud, but providing a lot of melody) give me the same feeling as massive amounts of water turning over. There's also the cymbals and lots of hi-hat, i associate those with the splashy sounds of water hitting rocks.
I'd say the 'Falls' in the title could be both a noun and a verb, giving the title a double meaning. Perhaps there's a waterfall somewhere in Blackwater Park called Drapery Falls.
I imagine that it's about the vastness of nature, the world and society around us. About feeling lost and throw around, and struggling to find a place where you belong. It's the slow realization that you are part of something enormous that neither you or anyone else has control over. When you're young the world seems much more man-made, grown ups seem in control of everything. The realization that this isn't the case (if it comes at all...) is something you have to discover for yourself. That's what the other meaning of the title signifies for me: the drapery concealing this fact slips away and you must accept that there's no guaranteed happy endings in real life. There will be bad things happening that you can't prevent.
One more thing, I find Mikael's screams to be some of the most appropriate I've heard. There's no aggression, no trying to impress, nothing that makes me go "ugh just shut up edgelord". Instead it sounds like genuine internal struggle, a person facing up to extreme emotions.
I haven't even said anything about the lyrics yet... Forgive me for taking so many words, and thanks for hearing me out, kind Opeth listening internet stranger.
vic verstraete I need to be smoking what your smoking bro. I love this song and type of music but damn bro, you are experiencing this at a different level. A elevated level might I say
vic verstraete damn... i already knew this kind of music is way too big brain for me and this just solidifies that
Daddy chill
Great view
Dont apologize. Keep typing. Express your emotions and imagination here!
I love it!
Music like Opeth brings out the best in us all!
i feel old knowing this is turning 20 yrs old this year.
“the silence of your seclusion,
brings night into all you say.”
Unreal.
5:57
harmonising tritons in minor seconds
you can't get more dissonance than that
Yeah right? Plus it's in odd time which makes it even more jarring. I had to immediately sit in front of my piano the first time I heard that to figure out what the hell kind of satanic music theory was behind that sound.
Years and years later...that opening makes me fall in love over and over again. Unmatched. This song is one of, if not the best, I’ve heard in terms of composition in a very long time.
i miss this opeth
That chord progression in the intro gets me every time. Absolute masterpiece.
This song is the embodiment of deep existential contemplation at 3am.
"please remedy my confusion" I am a HUGE RUSH fan, but Opeth is no joke!!!
The best thing that happened in my life is Opeth. I really wish to see them live.
My favourite Opeth song so far
Diego Corrado what's it now?
the lotus eater hahaha
Been listening to Opeth since around 2003 or 2004 when I was 8-9 years old. This is the classic that got me into the band.
This song defines me, it will forever be the song of my life. GREAT OPETH!
Also the song of my life
AWE-SOME 🤘🏼❤️🔥🎉
Though I absolutely enjoy the new sound of Opeth very much, I really miss these days. This album had such a huge impact to my musical taste, influences and preferences and this song is absolute magic.
masterpiece.
23 years later, still a true masterpiece!
That modulation at 4:01 will always be breathtakingly beautiful.
I forget this song is 10:55 minutes long. It is so good that it only seems like a 3 minute song when i listen to it.
7:48 greatness.
Haven't been listening to Opeth since I was maybe 15. Now I'm 25 and got here through YT's algorithm while listening to atmospheric black metal... Jeez, Opeth are dope. Why did I stop listening to them? Teenage me was more wise than I am
05:28 PALE GHOST IN THE CORNER, POURING OUT THE REST OF YOUR SODA!
wow, Opeth really do have some evil lyrics
Great...now thats all ill hear!! LMAO!
There is no emoji to describe this brilliant comment
Aw, not my soda :/
hahahahahaha
A true masterpiece.
An old friend's New Years Eve party, me on mushrooms by myself, lying on a couch away from everyone else, listening to this track, Dec 31 2004. WHAT A NIGHT
Emotionally taxing in its brilliance.. what a song. Almost an epic in one song.
Fun fact: I suffer from deep depression and the art on the album is exactly how I see this world. I couldn’t describe it better.
Fun fact: nobody asked #boomnigga
Fun fact: nobody asked #ownedepicly
@@sibek3415 that’s what I’m saying
@@sibek3415 Fun fact: You look like your relatives are hippopotamus
@@Hiro.the.God. Fun Fact: my grandma could beat your frail ass in a fight
Does anybody else feel like Mikael should write the soundtrack for Diablo IV?
Maybe
That'd be cool
1st listen of this caught me off guard. Especially that opening. That may be one of the best openings to a song ever
The riff at 0:09 is beyond words
I listen to this song and I am in disbelief at how fast almost 11 minutes goes by !!
Time pass bye and you just don't notice it. That's when you really enjoy what you are hearing. it's awesome how Opeth evolves you with their music
I wouldn't believe this sound could be achieved live .. without experiencing it.
It's ALL TRUE and BRILLIANT!
Mastodon / Opeth 2022 🤘
He can't growl as well as he used to. His tone is off.
bro .. i've seen them twice in greece . 2007 and 2011 . maybe the best sounding band in live
.. bros, i was speaking of the musicianship
Please remedy my confusion
And thrust me back to the day
The silence of your seclusion
Brings night into all you say
Pull me down again
And guide me into pain
I'm counting nocturnal hours
Drowned visions in haunted sleep
Faint flickering of your powers
Leaks out to show what you keep
Pull me down again
And guide me into
Ah ah ah
Ah ah ah
Ah ah ah
Ah ah ah
There is failure inside
This test I can't persist
Kept back by the enigma
No criterias demanded here
Deadly patterns made my wreath
Prosperous in your ways
Pale ghost in the corner
Pouring a caress on your shoulder
Puzzled by shrewd innocence
Runs a thick tide beneath
Ushered into inner graves
Nails bleeding from the struggle
It is the end for the weak at heart
Always the same
A lullaby for the ones who've lost all
Reeling inside
My gleaming eye in your necklace reflects
Stare of primal regrets
You turn your back and you walk away
Never again
Spiralling to the ground below
Like autumn leaves left in the wake to fade away
Waking up to your sound again
And lapse into the ways of misery
So poetical I love opeth so much
5:40 Noises of the Earth collapses.
8:50 Sounds of the new dawn of humanity.
Exactly
Absolute perfection.
this band is so underrated
I think this song has my favorite vocal intro of their entire catalogue
This song has stood the test of time, its playing on my subs and I love it so much still, their talent, his voice is amazing! Never again will there be another like them
The right song to listen to , this autumn...
This intro aways give me chills
The outro is even better IMO
Whatever time period you find yourself here, this is a good Sonic space to be. Have a good day everyone.
It somehow makes me so damn proud Opeth is from Europe.
the most sexy song of all times
One of my personal favorites
One of the best Swedish metal albums ever.
one of the best albums in general
Atmospheric Extreme Progressive Melodic Death Metal. I doubt there are any other metal bands on the planet with such fluid fusion of different styles of metal. You can't help but gape in utter amazement.
Try Agalloch
@@killerpaja03 Other non-mainstream bands?
@@arhaanchettri95 Empyrium and Ihsahn
@@killerpaja03 Thanks, but I've listened to these bands, including Gallowbraid and dark folk bands along the same lines. I'm looking for stuff that is not well-known in the metal community.
@@arhaanchettri95 Kardashev is my last chance, idk any less popular stuff
I love Opeth so much!!! Metal is the greatest genre of music ever!! Thrash, Black, Death, Heavy god fucking every genre of metal is gold!!
I think that, similar to every other part of the fabric of human(and perhaps other?) life, all genres of music hold the potential for golden opportunity: I think, there are a myriad filters of perception: visionary composers; witty lyricists; analytical mixers; moody audio environments; great musicians; high-quality equipment; diverse audience members: all of these and more, sharing and constructing an ever-growing, infinitely manifold work of art.
Please big Daddy quench my thirst
@@auturgicflosculator2183 well said
Me too my friend! Specially the old Opeth. And yes there's nothing better in this fucking world that Metaaaalll ! 🤘
I guess you shouldn't exactly thank god for Black Metal :D
It took me almost 20 years to discover this incredible song that reminds me the good musical days, Dimmu Borgir, Cradle of Filth, Emperor, Theatre of Tragedy, Samael, Anathema, Paradise Lost...
This is a far piece from Norwegian Black Metal. Can't imagine Mikael in corpse paint
@@tikhongilson3770 take a look at Bloodbath - Live at Wacken 2005
One of the greatest songs on probably the greatest album ever written
I prefer Still Life, but their MAYH through Ghost Reveries run is all 10/10s. Watershed is growing on me..
One of the best metal bands ever.
At the center of Blackwater Park is a pool and in its brackish depths , a gateway to another world .
Heard about this in the book "impossible music" amazing book and amazing song
What was being said about the song in the book?
7:48 - 8:52: Important
Happy 20th anniversary Blackwater Park (12/March/2021). Still one of the best metal albums E-V-E-R!
Everythings put together the right way onto this jam...sick rrrrrola
I agree dark and atmospheric metal with great acoustic interludes a favorite metal band
8 year old just listened and loved it
8:42 That transition!!!!!
It takes me to another place, not kidding!
It reminds me of the bit in that Pink Floyd song from Animals - the one where Roger Waters extends the last note of the line and it fades into a synth solo.
Always gives me chills. How the song loops, it's fucking masterful.
It's a simple thing, but I really love the way Mikael did the "Pull me down again, and guide me into pain." verse in this song, especially when the second time it comes back, instead of saying pain, he lets out this melody that sounds like hes kinda "Screaming". I don't know if it was intentional, but I like it a lot
One of the most brilliant compositions in the history of music and humanity. Rage and deep melancholy... ugliness and beauty... violence and calmness... all in just one song. A sublime masterpiece. Words fail to describe how majestic this song is, words fail to describe how deeply melancholic and beatiful it is. Not only that, also the lyrics can't reach the level of expression and beauty of the sound.
The end and the start of this song are basically the same, which makes the song seem like an endless cycle of deeply moving sadness, a wheel of pure melancholy that will roll for eternity (if there is such thing!).
I can compare very few pieces that can top or be equally sublime to the level of execution and majesty of this amazing work. And I must say those pieces that can be compared are usually outside the metal music realm.
Congratulations to this band and everyone who were involved on the creation of this song and this album for producing such a well crafted work. There are many modern bands that are very technical and way more complex in composition... I have listened to countless bands (old and new) and metal subgenres... But unfortunately none of those bands have reached this level of sublimeness in my vision.
Not trying to be pretentious, it is just the way I feel. I enjoy a ton of different metal bands that I consider to be excellent... some of them are black metal, grindcore, avant-garde, noise and progressive... Not all excellent music is sublime, but all sublime music is excellent. Also, sublime music is very rare outside the classical realm.
I'm always looking for the best compositions I can, and Opeth is a band that knows how to create masterpieces.