Umbra
Skeletá
2025
Duration: 5:31
Track number: 9
Times played live: 70
Writers
Lyrics by: Tobias Forge
Music by: Tobias Forge
Theme
A sensual love song hidden within dark imagery. The title, meaning 'shadow' in Latin, refers to the darkest part of a shadow during an eclipse. Tobias Forge described this as addressing the driving force of love as central to human existence, calling for a 'coital' song on the album. The lyrics intertwine love and death in the shadows—altars, black candles, the divine—where the sacred and profane merge, creating a mystical world where love and death are inextricably linked.
Lyrics
In the shadows, pale and cold
In the shadows, lay my soul
In the shadows, death becomes your lover
The altar is lit with black candles
The darker, the better, so thrilling
It's killing you
In the chapel of the Holy One
In the presence of the Chosen Son
I see your light shine through
In the temple of the godly scene
In the shadow of the Nazarene
I put my love in you
In the shadows, stripped of sin
In the shadows, deep within
In the shadows, I will make you my angel
The altar (altar) is lit with black candles
The darker (darker), the better, so killing
It's thrilling me
In the chapel of the Holy One
In the presence of the Chosen Son
I see your light shine through
In the temple of the godly scene
In the shadow of the Nazarene
I put my love in you
In the chapel of the Holy One
In the presence of the Chosen Son
I see your light shine through
In the temple of the godly scene
In the shadow of the Nazarene
I put my love in you
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