The Lotus Eater

The Lotus Eater - Opeth

Lyrics by：Mikael Akerfeldt

Composed by：Mikael Akerfeldt

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

A barren waste is your land

Crops they were sown to die

This skin is a mirror the eyes hollow with ignorance

Health runs from your lips

Sucked in and safe from the world of sleep

All years

All years

All years

All years

All years caring for a liar

The barren drift road is winding higher

You're a moth too 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

A whisper from the heart

Of evil luring them all into despair

Resenting the goods of a saviour

And cries out 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

O brother you are a killer and you target yourself

And the pride of a mother drawn close in a mother's son

And the love from a father was used by a father's son

And the pride of a mother drawn close 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 a parting so clear and so true

Overheard us talking