Lyrics
I remember
Recollection of a past event or memory.
Your heavenly face underwater
Observation of a divine or heavenly face submerged in water.
Admiring its whiteness
Appreciation of the purity or whiteness of the observed face.
Under the moon rays
Noting the scene under moonlight.
And the life going out
Recognition of life departing.
Of your magnificent wounds
Acknowledgment of impressive wounds.
Wraps up of red your naked flesh
Description of wounds enveloping naked flesh in red.
On your pearly nails, the subdued light
Noticing subdued light on pearly nails.
Gleam under water in a deep silence
Highlighting the gleam underwater in profound silence.
And your veins, in a complex network
Reference to veins forming a complex network on the skin.
Draw on your skin tree roots
Metaphorical depiction of tree roots drawn on the skin.
You who sleep for ever
Addressing someone who is in eternal sleep or death.
In your cold shroud
Describing the person wrapped in a cold shroud.
Shall the disgrace fall on
Pondering whether disgrace will fall upon the eternal sleeper.
Your holy misfortune
Connecting the disgrace with a holy misfortune.
Which sentences for its crime
Referring to a sentence or judgment for a committed crime.
Your suicided spirit
Linking the sentence to the spirit that committed suicide.
And puts on its face
Personifying the spirit with an accusing appearance.
An accusing appearance
No specific content in this line.
You, who sleep for ever
Reiteration of the eternal sleep wrapped in a cold shroud.
In your cold shroud
Repeating the question of whether disgrace will fall.
Shall the disgrace fall on
Reiterating the connection between disgrace and holy misfortune.
Your holy misfortune
No specific content in this line.
Your dark hair, as an oil slick
Describing dark hair as an oil slick on the water's surface.
Stays on the surface, refusing to sink
Emphasizing the hair's refusal to sink and stay submerged.
It tries to make believe of a last hope
Suggesting an attempt to cling to a last hope, symbolized by the hair dancing on waves.
It dances on the waves, unlifed, unlifed
Repetition of the idea that the hair dances on the waves without life.
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