Black Waters
Navigating the Depths: Unraveling the Meaning of Nuclear Winter's 'Black Waters'
Lyrics
We turn from the day full of the same dark winds.
We choose to turn away from a day filled with recurring gloomy events.
They pass from the waters to the world from the voice of men.
The effects of these dark experiences transition from the waters to the world through human expression.
And drove our share through flesh and bone.
We endured our fair share of hardships, penetrating through both flesh and bone.
and turned them under to mould and stone.
We transformed these experiences, burying them to shape and solidify like mold and stone.
The twilight shades grow deeper into the sleepless night,
The shadows of twilight intensify as the night, devoid of rest, progresses.
lost from their dream of life.
Those shadows are detached from their dreams of life, lost in a state of perpetual wakefulness.
They pass from the waters to the world from the voice of men.
Reiteration of the transition of dark experiences from the waters to the world through human expression.
Come to the window, where begins the eternal note of sadness
An invitation to observe a window, where a continuous and eternal note of sadness originates.
Here even dreams ascend in smoke.
Even dreams dissipate into smoke within this space.
Gagged by the smothering wing which none unbinds.
Constrained and silenced by an overwhelming force that remains unreleased.
I dreaded even a heaven with doors so chained.
Aversion to a heaven with doors tightly chained, expressing a fear or reluctance towards certain possibilities.
There I watched for the dead.
The speaker observed for the departed souls, but none of them stirred from their rest.
Each life exiled but no ghost awoke.
Each life is in exile, yet no spirit or ghost is stirred into awareness.
There only stillness answering our cry.
In that place, only silence responds to our cries or pleas.
Exercised in the still of night.
An activity or ritual performed in the tranquility of the night, possibly reflecting on past experiences.
We turn from the day full of the same dark winds.
Repetition of the decision to turn away from a day filled with recurring gloomy events.
The twilight shades grow deeper into the sleepless night,
The deepening twilight shades persist as the sleepless night continues, detached from the dreams of life.
lost from their dream of life.
Reiteration of the shadows being lost from their dreams of life in the continuing night.
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