I think are three key words in this song. Ghost, perdition and phantasm.
I might be way off the mark here, I like and understand all of your opinions and ideas, but this is my interpretation;
I think that Ghost of Perdition means just that. A ghost, a phantasm itself, something that doesn't exist. Something that's haunting her, staying her. Perdition is complete ruin of the soul. I think it's about a woman who truly believes or feels she is possessed, something has ruined her soul, or maybe it's just that she's done bad things that she regrets, I don't know, and this sends her into madness. Her son has to sit by and witness, because he loves her. He tries to help, tries to remind her of her better days, the "ordinary days", but to no avail. I think that "the incoherrent talk of ordinary days
Why would we need to live?" is him talking to her, trying to console her, saying that if it were possible for a good person such as his mother could be taken over and ruined by the devil, then what would be the point of living?
"Devil cracked the earthly shell
Foretold she was the one
Blew hope into the room and said:
"You have to live before you die young"" could possibly be a premonition or something she had when she was younger, the idea of the devil, god and all, the idea of immortality. Heaven. But she found she would have to lead good life beforehand, she'd have live her life before becoming eternally young in heaven. But then she looks back on her life and feels she's ruined herself, and begins to go insane.
The last part is about the whole idea of possession and what it has done to her. If he could possibly take it away, it wouldn't change anything, "the phantasm of your mind, might be calling you to go" represents the idea of the devil and hell being real, taking over logic and sense and sanity itself, leaving behind her loved ones, her family, "defying forgotten mortals". "Where the victim is the prey", I think is her 'looking back into sanity, humanity, mortality' and just seeing herself and others as the victims who are predated upon by the devil. She sees no point.
I might be way off the mark here, I like and understand all of your opinions and ideas, but this is my interpretation;
I think that Ghost of Perdition means just that. A ghost, a phantasm itself, something that doesn't exist. Something that's haunting her, staying her. Perdition is complete ruin of the soul. I think it's about a woman who truly believes or feels she is possessed, something has ruined her soul, or maybe it's just that she's done bad things that she regrets, I don't know, and this sends her into madness. Her son has to sit by and witness, because he loves her. He tries to help, tries to remind her of her better days, the "ordinary days", but to no avail. I think that "the incoherrent talk of ordinary days
Why would we need to live?" is him talking to her, trying to console her, saying that if it were possible for a good person such as his mother could be taken over and ruined by the devil, then what would be the point of living?
"Devil cracked the earthly shell
Foretold she was the one
Blew hope into the room and said:
"You have to live before you die young"" could possibly be a premonition or something she had when she was younger, the idea of the devil, god and all, the idea of immortality. Heaven. But she found she would have to lead good life beforehand, she'd have live her life before becoming eternally young in heaven. But then she looks back on her life and feels she's ruined herself, and begins to go insane.
The last part is about the whole idea of possession and what it has done to her. If he could possibly take it away, it wouldn't change anything, "the phantasm of your mind, might be calling you to go" represents the idea of the devil and hell being real, taking over logic and sense and sanity itself, leaving behind her loved ones, her family, "defying forgotten mortals". "Where the victim is the prey", I think is her 'looking back into sanity, humanity, mortality' and just seeing herself and others as the victims who are predated upon by the devil. She sees no point.
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