Katatonia
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This song is highly cinematic. An Omerta is a code of silence. If you are in the mafia or a gang you don’t go to the police. You talk, you die. The narrator of this song was involved with gang-life of some sort, then ratted out friends in exchange for legal immunity and a new life. This happened a l...
Come by
You have come far
All I had I lost in the flood
Come sit
With me at the bar
Tell me of progress
Strengthen my blood
No one here
Knows my name
I have traded my memories for things
But I
Remember you clearly
Do you remember that I used to sing?
Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo
Why have you waited so long? [x2]
Come by
You have come far
Long since I saw you so how have you been
Come sit
With me at the bar
How long since they told you that they had found him?
No one here
Knows my name, I gave up my worries for one good thing
But I
Remember you clearly
Do you remember that I used to sing?
Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo
Why have you waited so long? [x4]
Was it because I never told you I was going away
That you waited so long
Was it because your fucking dreams meant nothing to me
That you waited so long
It runs
From the top of my fingers
Into my hands
What
Is it I have been drinking?
I do not understand
I
Thought I'd lost you my brother
I'm so glad you came
My regards
To the ones that I love, I miss them
Tell them I love them, I miss them
Omerta was written by Jonas Renkse.
In an Inferno magazine (a finnish information medium for concerts, bands, and all kinds of news) interview with Jonas Renkse, there is a part where he describes each Viva Emptiness song.
Translated from Finnish to English, this is what he said about “Omerta”:
Last minute composition that I wrote j...