Chapter II: To the End
Pain of Salvation Lyrics


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(Sorrow turned into hate. Anger became a thread, to climb with faith. Tasting the life she shed)"Time will heal" they told him - just if they knew his pain.
"Time kills!" he whispered.
Not a word: they watched him leave again.
Grief need not her grave - nothing left to save.
She went up with the sunrise that day, planned her future as every day. Spent her last minutes in tomorrows she would never experience.

Live your life each day, meet the tides my friend.
We're all nomads forever on our way: a journey to the end! (She walked there every day without even knowing it was the place to which she was going)If you knew the number of the steps you would ever take, bitter I wonder: would you run or cease to walk?
For her sake he lived - nothing more to give.
Looking back now, he could have saved her
but there's no one left to save him.
'Cause we're all walking in tomorrows we may never experience.

Live your life each day, meet the tides my friend.
We're all nomads forever on our way: a journey to the end!

(daniel magdic)
(daniel gildenlow)

So now he has knowledge but what has he won?
All pages are empty - he's already gone.




He lost what he lived for and losses won't mend:
alive just to enter a journey beyond the end.

Overall Meaning

The lyrics of Chapter II: To the End by Pain of Salvation tell a melancholic tale of grief, loss, and the inevitability of death. The song begins with a narrator describing how sorrow transforms into hate and how anger can become a tool for coping with pain. The grieving protagonist mourns the loss of a loved one, and even though people advise him that time will heal his wounds, he understands that time can also be a killer. He feels misunderstood and leaves, feeling disappointed by the lack of support and understanding from others.


The lyrics describe the sadness of unfulfilled dreams, the regret of missing out on experiences and the impossibility of reversing irreversible loss. The singer wishes he had saved his loved one, but it is too late to do so. He reflects on the fact that even though we are all walking towards an end, it is essential to live life to the fullest every day, and experience everything it holds.


The song's overarching message is one of the transience of life and the importance of making the most out of every moment. The choice is ours: we can either put off living until it is too late, or we can embrace life's journey, accepting the fact that it is finite and make the best of every twist and turn.


Line by Line Meaning

Sorrow turned into hate. Anger became a thread, to climb with faith. Tasting the life she shed
Feeling immense sorrow transformed into hate and anger, which became the driving force to move forward, albeit with faith. He tasted the pain and trauma that she went through before her death.


"Time will heal" they told him - just if they knew his pain. "Time kills!" he whispered. Not a word: they watched him leave again. Grief need not her grave - nothing left to save.
People often say that time can heal all wounds, but they don't understand the extent of his pain. He realized that time is not a healer; instead, it makes things worse. No one said anything as he left again feeling overwhelmed by grief, knowing that everything is gone, and there's nothing left to save.


She went up with the sunrise that day, planned her future as every day. Spent her last minutes in tomorrows she would never experience.
On the day she died, she woke up with the sunrise and planned her future, as she always did. But it all came to an end, as she spent her last minutes thinking of tomorrows she would never experience


Live your life each day, meet the tides my friend. We're all nomads forever on our way: a journey to the end! (She walked there every day without even knowing it was the place to which she was going)
Life is temporary and unpredictable, and we must live every day to the fullest because we don't know what tomorrow holds. We're all wanderers on a path to the ultimate end, even if we don't realize it. She walked to her fate every day, not knowing where she was heading.


If you knew the number of the steps you would ever take, bitter I wonder: would you run or cease to walk?
If you knew exactly how many steps you would take in your lifetime, would it make you run towards your future, determined to live life to the fullest? Or would you cease to walk altogether, knowing that your time is limited?


For her sake he lived - nothing more to give. Looking back now, he could have saved her but there's no one left to save him.
To honor her memory, he chose to keep living. However, he regrets not being able to save her, and now he's lost and alone, with no one to save him.


'Cause we're all walking in tomorrows we may never experience. Live your life each day, meet the tides my friend. We're all nomads forever on our way: a journey to the end!
We never know what tomorrow holds, and we might never experience some of our tomorrows. Therefore, we must cherish every day and live life to the fullest because life is a journey, and we're all nomads on our way to the ultimate end.


So now he has knowledge but what has he won? All pages are empty - he's already gone. He lost what he lived for and losses won't mend: alive just to enter a journey beyond the end.
He learned from his experiences, but he feels like he has lost everything that made life worth living. There is no solace for his losses, and he feels like he's already gone, living just to embark on a journey beyond the end.


(daniel magdic) (daniel gildenlow)
These lines represent the songwriters of the song.




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Sir Marcus 'Ninguém' Santana

Ending Theme

Pain Of Salvation


And so I find myself here once again
First step down remedy lane
Budapest you tore my world apart, well, here I am
Worn with rope ends on my mind, torn with blood scarred in my eyes
But now I'm back to shake that from my life
Ending theme, ending theme
Ripping at the seams, for an opening
Back again at deak ter
I know I could have left her there
It was the feeling of leaving myself that I could not bear
The same old hotel room in pest one night before the sziget fest
Hungarian princess will you share my rest?
To rest in my
Ending theme
Ending theme
Ripping at the seams, for an opening
To be honest I don't know what I'm looking for, who to be
Sitting here as once before, weeks ago
Just waiting for a knock on that door
And I have left all I thought was me to find out, to make sure if it was you or me
That made me feel so free and real, but when we kiss I don't know, I just don't know
'Cause it leaves a taste of emptiness, and I think what if I'm simply depressed?
blind, just finding rest from my mind here in Budapest?
Confusing zest with the joy of being blessed with the bliss of self-escape as we kiss?
And mixing my being unstressed with your being undressed and the taste of being true
With the fresh taste of me and you as we touch? I don't know
But I saw so much of me in you, the me I've missed, the young and free in you
But still, that doesn't mean a thing, may not mean anything about my needing you
But I guess we had to meet, to be near, to make sure, and still my dear
Beyond this bed and that door, to be honest, I fear I just don't know
Ending theme
Ending theme
Fanning flames to dreams of belonging
Ending theme
Ending theme
Ripping at the seams, for an opening
To be honest I don't know what I'm looking for
Lying here, watching you leave through that door



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Felipe Kezam

muuuito bom!! essa musica é maravilhosa...

Sir Marcus 'Ninguém' Santana

Ending Theme

Pain Of Salvation


And so I find myself here once again
First step down remedy lane
Budapest you tore my world apart, well, here I am
Worn with rope ends on my mind, torn with blood scarred in my eyes
But now I'm back to shake that from my life
Ending theme, ending theme
Ripping at the seams, for an opening
Back again at deak ter
I know I could have left her there
It was the feeling of leaving myself that I could not bear
The same old hotel room in pest one night before the sziget fest
Hungarian princess will you share my rest?
To rest in my
Ending theme
Ending theme
Ripping at the seams, for an opening
To be honest I don't know what I'm looking for, who to be
Sitting here as once before, weeks ago
Just waiting for a knock on that door
And I have left all I thought was me to find out, to make sure if it was you or me
That made me feel so free and real, but when we kiss I don't know, I just don't know
'Cause it leaves a taste of emptiness, and I think what if I'm simply depressed?
blind, just finding rest from my mind here in Budapest?
Confusing zest with the joy of being blessed with the bliss of self-escape as we kiss?
And mixing my being unstressed with your being undressed and the taste of being true
With the fresh taste of me and you as we touch? I don't know
But I saw so much of me in you, the me I've missed, the young and free in you
But still, that doesn't mean a thing, may not mean anything about my needing you
But I guess we had to meet, to be near, to make sure, and still my dear
Beyond this bed and that door, to be honest, I fear I just don't know
Ending theme
Ending theme
Fanning flames to dreams of belonging
Ending theme
Ending theme
Ripping at the seams, for an opening
To be honest I don't know what I'm looking for
Lying here, watching you leave through that door

Webofscience

Guitars are sounding but none are being played. All is good if I close my eyes though... This song (in fact the whole album) has a lot of meaning to me personally. Truly magnificent.

odosrock

Minha música favorita do metal <3

Luiz Oliveira

GREAT!!! MY FAVOURITE BAND!!! Great video, great song!!!

entropiasite

ojala pain of salvation se hubiese mantenido tan geniales como en entropia aun son una banda excepcional

Sater Unholy

3:56 - 4:00 definitely my favorite change of a song, it just perfect

666pmt

totally agree. their road salt stuff has a special place in my heart also, but IMO the perfect element is one of the most beautiful, amazing albums ever composed. it really is a thing of beauty.

Tiziano Fratini

666pmt You're right, nothing like it

Josaphar

Just love this band

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