Nevermore – The Psalm of Lydia

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When I blacked out in the winter months of Capricorn
I had a strange dream that I lived a thousand winter’s gone
A thousand winter’s faded gray and shuttered by the wind
To tell the tale of Lydia, her legacy begins uprising
Unveiling the absurdity in the tragedy of man
And it’s hero the all seeing worm

The pain is born from memory of pleasures unparalleled and pure
In velvet sleep I live the past again
There is no chance to release me, no answer to bring peace
Some people conjure dreaming, sanctified electric karmic burn through

The pigs, they marched from under to pull down the moon
And summon the bringer of doom
Now sullen the demons fade away and summon their final call
Lydia slayed them all

The pain is born from memory of pleasures unparalleled and pure
This is the psalm of Lydia
Oh my sweet Lydia the others have told me it is not your time to leave
It is not your time, you’ve so much more to see

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    General Comment:In my humble opinion Banekeeper can't actually be more right, I wouldn't say this song it's exactly like the poem but it's about it for sure, I mean Allan's Poe poem: The Conqueror worm it's a metaphoric verse about human mortality taken away by the inevitable course of death and it's told withing other story called Ligeia (which is very similar to lydia with the difference that Jeff may have changed because he's so related to music field that he might have found very cool to make an subtle reference to Lydian mode) which is also about a girl who is dying and writes the poem which is narrated by her husband, not so different than jeff loomis song which is narrated from someone else perspective, specially in the part: 'The pain is born from memory of pleasures unparalleled and pure This is the psalm of Lydia', another important fact that strengthens this theory is that Poe's poem and jeff's song shared certain words and similar sentences to the point that one of legeia verses tells the following: While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, "Man,"
    And its hero the Conqueror Worm. As you can see many of those word were used in the psalm of lydia. But just as Banekeeper said already we can be all wrong! however there's a huge reference to Ligeia's short story. So you can read the story and come up with a clever conclusion.
    Flag theguitarcriticon January 19, 2012   Link
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    General Comment:In my humble opinion Banekeeper can't actually be more right, I wouldn't say this song it's exactly like the poem but it's about it for sure, I mean Allan's Poe poem: The Conqueror worm it's a metaphoric verse about human mortality taken away by the inevitable course of death and it's told withing other story called Ligeia (which is very similar to lydia with the difference that Jeff may have changed because he's so related to music field that he might have found very cool to make an subtle reference to Lydian mode) which is also about a girl who is dying and writes the poem which is narrated by her husband, not so different than jeff loomis song which is narrated from someone else perspective, specially in the part: 'The pain is born from memory of pleasures unparalleled and pure This is the psalm of Lydia', another important fact that strengthens this theory is that Poe's poem and jeff's song shared certain words and similar sentences to the point that one of legeia verses tells the following: While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, "Man,"
    And its hero the Conqueror Worm. As you can see many of those word were used in the psalm of lydia. But just as Banekeeper said already we can be all wrong! however there's a huge reference to Ligeia's short story. So you can read the story and come up with a clever conclusion.
    Flag theguitarcriticon January 19, 2012   Link
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    General Comment:Weren't coins invented in Lydia? Doubt though that there's any connection to that in the song. Lyrics sound like someone remembering his lost love, memories being painful.
    Flag impropaatturon June 04, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:Lydia is a church mode, but like all the church modes they were named after Iron Age city-states. Ionia, Dorian, Phrygia, Lydia, Mixolydia, Aeolian, and Locrian. I don't think this song is in a Lydian mode because the Lydia mode is major and this song is far from major.

    Lydia is not in Western Europe. It is the western portion of Turkey. It was also landlocked because Ionia held the sea to the west. I think song must be about the land area of Lydia.
    Flag JaredCOBHCon September 25, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:Can't say much about the meaning of the song; I can, however, point out the the last three lines of the first verse seem to be based on a poem by Edgar Allan Poe, named "The Conqueror Worm" (my favorite poem of his, actually [: ) particularly the last verse of which. (Look it up)

    Actually, now that I think about it, one could draw comparison between at least some lines in the song and Poe's story "Ligeia" (Ligeia? Lydia?), in which the aforementioned poem appeared, as recited by it's title character...
    Or might be I'm way wrong. Still...
    Flag Banekeeperon December 31, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:I dunno how true this is, but I can see this being almost a flashback to Dreaming Neon Black. "In velvet sleep I live the past again." He used the term "velvet sleep" fairly often throughout the songs on Dreaming Neon Black, and during interviews, Dane talked about having dreams of his lady friend drowning, and so would be "living the past again" in the "velvet sleep." Also, "It is not your time to leave; it is not your time, you've so much more to see." could very easily just be saying she died young, and had so much left that she could have seen before then.

    I'm probably completely off base, but that just came to me, so I figured I'd through it out there.
    Flag Victor8988on December 05, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:This is a badass song. That's all I have to say. XD
    Flag Sessh0umaru01on October 27, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:This song is rather deep and has loads of possible meanings, but I don't really understand it very much.

    I only listened to it at first becuase my name is Lydia =]

    But I like it and would be very grateful if someone could explain it to me?

    Thanks,
    Lydia
    Flag little-deetzieon September 09, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:It is the Psalm or "song sung to harp" or in this case guitar and also "religious song" of Lydia a historic region of western Europe, also was a kingdom, and it is talking about how Lydia had slain these demons and how this guy sees this to tell the tale... it probably has a deeper meaning, but in all literal(not sure how to spell it) sense it is what i said...
    Flag BladeRazoron May 24, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:Three words: Jeff. Is. GOD.
    Flag buggie92on May 05, 2007   Link

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