Nach dem gestrigen Aufruhr um die Trennung von ARCH ENEMY und ihrer langjährigen Frontfrau ALISSA WHITE-GLUZ lies auch die erste Solosingle der kanadischen Sängerin nicht lange auf sich warten. `The Room Where She Died´gibt´s im Video und wurde von Oliver Palotai (Kamelot) mitgeschrieben, der auch im Video auftaucht, indem Alissa übrigens auch Gitarre spielt. Mit fast sieben Minuten präsentiert sich der Song recht vielschichtig, in Teilen fast ein wenig proggig. Was meint Ihr?
ALISSA erklärt:
„“The Room Where She Died“ is a song that feels truly satisfying to me; like I get to express myself in so many ways that have been dormant for years. This upcoming album is diverse; and I love the idea of opening up this new chapter with this song and video, which I wrote the script for.“
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Lyrics:
I stand, lost in shadows of,
Years of lament etched into four walls.
Like a whisper,
A feverish dream.
Where only echoes respond,
I keep asking – how long?
This caravan follows a hearse,
Leaving the Room where she died.
Dying begins at birth.
To suffer is the way of our kind.
Let lies sit like baskets of,
Flowers in bloom,
Colours bright and false.
She will dance on Hyperion’s field.
Where I’m still wondering why,
She hit her head on the sky?
To be alive is only to acknowledge time as it is.
Do you remember the feeling of being alive with lightning in your mind?
Sinners and saints join the broken and brave in this memory plane.
We’re all the same.
Cold are your nights.
Hours will pass as you strangle time.
Dead are your eyes.
Nevertheless all the corpses still waltz by your side.
Pain walks on broken feet.
A broken heart keeps the beat.
Still she hums softly.
Looking through cloudy window panes,
Without moving for ever and a day.
Then the light comes to greet her face,
And brush the dust from her broken brain.
Eyes say what the voice cannot.
Is this where it ends?
Here, our paths must part.
Just a helpless spectator, am I.
And I keep questioning “god”,
To drown out the ferryman’s calls.