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The Baying of The Hounds Lyrics

Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Band
Album

Ghost Reveries

(2005)
TypeAlbum (Studio full-length)
GenresProgressive Metal, Progressive Rock
LabelsRoadrunner Records
Ranked#2 for 2005 , #81 all-time
Album rating :  91.7 / 100
Votes :  80
2. The Baying of The Hounds (10:41)
Track rating :  95.6 / 100       Votes :  21       [ ]
hear the baying of the hounds
In the distance. I hear them devouring
Pest-ridden jackals of the earth
Diabolical beasts and roaming the forests
In wait and constant protectors
Calling you to sit by his side
Your self-loathing image in his flesh
A revelation upon which you linger

His words are flies
Swarming towards the true insects
Feasting on buried dreams
And spreading decay upon your skin
His eyes spew forth a darkness
That cut through and paralyze
Casts light upon your secrets
Forced to confront your enemies

His mouth is a vortex
Sucking you into its pandemonium
Fools you with a helping hand of ashes
Reached out in false dismay
His body is a country
The cities lay dead beyond despair
Friends turned enemies unable to come clean
In a rising fog of reeking death

Everything you believed is a lie
Everyone you loved is a death-burden
So you take comfort in him
And you are receptive to stark wishes
No longer struggling to declare your stand
You would inflict no harm to others
They are unaware and in a loop of futile events
You are everything, they are nothing

Drown in the deep mire
With past desires
Beneath the mire
Drown desire now with you

Lined up verses on dead skin
The tainted lips of a stranger
Resting upon hers

And I embrace bereavement
Everything beloved is shattered anyway
I would devote myself to anyone
I would accept any flaws

I am too weak to resist
Tension vibrating with horror
Finding the outcast in my eyes
Pushing nerves on a puppet
Endless poison in my veins
Clean intent now tainted with death

And so, cold touch now inhumane
Every waking hour
Awaiting a reverie to unfold
Louder by the minute
The baying of the hounds
Calling me back to my home
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Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Ghost Reveries - Album Credits
Members
Other staff
  • Opeth : Producer, Engineer, Art Direction
  • Jens Bogren : Producer, Engineer, Mixing, Mastering Engineer
  • Thomas Eberger : Mastering Engineer
  • Rickard Bengtsson : Recording Engineer
  • Anders Alexandersson : Recording Engineer
  • Niklas Kallgren : Recording Engineer
  • Travis Smith : Artwork, Layout, Art Direction
  • Anthony Sorrento : Artwork
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